Cowgirl Soccer Back In Action

September 08, 2021 | Cowgirl Soccer

Game Notes

Oklahoma State (3-2-0)
at SMU (2-1-0)

Thurs., Sept. 9 • 7 p.m. • Dallas, Texas
Washburne Soccer & Track Stadium (2,500)

#15 Texas A&M (3-2-0)
at Oklahoma State (3-2-0)

Sun., Sept. 12 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.
Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)

TV/Video: Fri. - ESPN+ (John Liddle & Steve Lansdale)
Sun. - Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe & Anna Beffer)
Radio: Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM/stillwaterradio.net (Bill Van Ness)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

     • Up next for Oklahoma State, which is 3-2-0 on the season, is another split week. The Cowgirls travel to Dallas to face SMU on Thursday night before a Sunday afternoon showdown with No. 15 Texas A&M at Neal Patterson Stadium.
     • OSU is coming off a 13-3-2 showing last season, one in which the Cowgirls finished third in the Big 12 Conference standings at 6-2-1. OSU earned its second consecutive berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship as the tourney's No. 10 national seed and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the third time in program history.
     • OSU returns 21 letterwinners from last season, including nine starters and five All-Big 12 performers.
     • The 2021 season is the 26th in program history; over the first 25, OSU posted a 302-167-56 (.629) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 17th season at the helm in 2021 with a 219-87-43 mark.

Scouting The Mustangs

     • SMU is 2-1-0 this season, with wins over Northwestern State and Denver.
     • Chris Petrucelli is in his 10th season as head coach at SMU, where he owns a 77-69-16 record. In 32 overall seasons, the two-time National Coach of the Year has a career record of 417-179-52.
     • OSU is 4-0-1 all time against SMU, the last meeting coming in 2019 in Stillwater and resulting in a 2-2 draw.

Scouting The Aggies

     • Texas A&M is 3-2-0 on the season and takes a three-game winning streak into a Wednesday match at home against Southern.
     • The only head coach in Texas A&M program history, G Guerrieri is in his 29th season with the Aggies and sports a 471-142-40 career record; he has led TAMU to 26-straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
     • OSU is 1-16-5 all time against TAMU. The former conference foes last met in last season's NCAA Soccer Championship Sweet 16, tying 3-3 with the Aggies advancing following a penalty kick shootout.

Winning Is A Habit

    Now in its 26th season, Oklahoma State soccer has built itself into an established winner.
     • OSU has earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship 12 of the last 15 years (beginning in 2006) and six of the last eight.
     • From 2006-11, the Cowgirls earned six-straight NCAA tourney bids and advanced to at least the second round each time, including back-to-back Elite Eight appearances in 2010 and 2011.
     • From 2008-11, OSU celebrated four consecutive Big 12 championships — two regular season (2008, '11) and two tournament ('09, '10). The Cowgirls also won regular season titles in 2017 and 2019.

Home Sweet Home

     In three seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, OSU has compiled a 25-6-1 record (.797) on its home turf, including a 2-1-0 mark last season.
     The Cowgirls went 10-0-1 on their home field in 2019, the seventh time in program history OSU has gone undefeated at home in a season. Seven of those wins came via shutout, and OSU did not allow a goal in its first five home matches.
     OSU was 84-16-10 (.809) at the Cowgirl Soccer Complex from 2008-17 and was 142-40-17 (.756) all time on its former home turf.

Scoring Punch

     OSU ranked seventh nationally with 40 goals last season, and all eight players who combined for that total return in 2021.
     The Cowgirls' scoring attack is led by the big three of Olyvia Dowell, Grace Yochum and Gabriella Coleman, a trio that held down the top three scoring spots in the Big 12 in 2020-21. Dowell and Yochum both had 12 goals, a total that ranked sixth in the NCAA, while Coleman found the back of the net nine times.
     In 2019, OSU was 14th nationally with 50 goals as it averaged 2.27 goals per game.

High Five

     Oklahoma State has had five players selected as All-Big 12 Conference performers in each of the last two seasons.
     Earning 2020 All-Big 12 First Team honors for the Cowgirls were defender Kim Rodriguez and forward Olyvia Dowell, while defender Charmé Morgan, midfielder Grace Yochum and forward Gabriella Coleman were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team.
     Only four times in program history have five or more Cowgirls garnered all-conference recognition. A program-record seven Cowgirls earned All-Big 12 status in 2011 while OSU also had five All-Big 12 performers in 2010, 2019 and 2020.
     Rodriguez earned All-Big 12 First Team accolades for the second consecutive season in 2020 and is now a three-time all-conference performer in her career. Both distinctions place her in rare company – she is only the sixth player in OSU history to earn first-team status twice or more in a career, and she is just the eighth Cowgirl to be named all-conference three or more times.

Welcome Back, Nice To See You Again

     Oklahoma State has four "Super Seniors" on its roster in 2021, with Gabriella Coleman, Charmé Morgan, Kim Rodriguez and Hannah Webb each taking advantage of an extra season of eligibility offered by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 pandemic that altered the 2020 season.
     Coleman, Rodriguez and Webb are each in their fifth collegiate season (Coleman spent her first two at Mississippi State before transferring), while Morgan is in her sixth year after also being granted a medical redshirt in 2018.
     Entering the '21 season, the Cowgirls' Super Seniors had combined to play in 306 games and made 280 career starts.

Elite Company

Kim Rodriguez became the fifth All-American in Cowgirl Soccer history in 2019 when she was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team as a defender. She joined a list of OSU All-Americans that included Yolanda Odenyo, Melinda Mercado, AD Franch and Haley Woodard.
Last season, Rodriguez repeated as a second-team All-American to become the fourth Cowgirl to collect multiple All-America accolades in her career, joining Odenyo, Mercado and Franch on that list.

She's A Giver

Kim Rodriguez is tied for sixth on OSU's all-time assists list with 22. She has had at least three assists in each of her first four seasons, including a career-best seven in 2019.

Scoring In Bunches

     Grace Yochum has established herself as one of the Big 12's top goal scorers, and she is chasing history as OSU's all-time leading goal scorer.
     In 56 career games, Yochum has amassed 30 goals, which is tied for fifth on OSU's all-time list; she is five away from tying the record of 35 held by Yolanda Odenyo and Jolene Schweitzer.
     As a freshman in 2018, Yochum tallied four goals. She followed that with 11 as a sophomore and netted 12 last season, a total that ranked sixth in the NCAA.
    Yochum had two streaks of six consecutive games with a goal that spanned last season — Oct. 6, 2019 vs. K-State-Sept. 18, 2020 vs. Iowa State and Nov. 12, 2020 vs. OU-March 27, 2021 vs. OU.

G Stands For Goals

     Gabriella "G" Coleman scored 18 goals in her two first two seasons with the Cowgirls, netting nine goals in both 2019 and 2020-21, and is second on the team this season with two goals.
     Last season, four of Coleman's goals came in the postseason as she netted two goals each against South Alabama and Texas A&M in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. In 2019, she also showed a penchant for scoring when it mattered most, tallying two goals in the Big 12 Soccer Championship and scoring OSU's lone NCAA tourney goal.
     Coleman spent her first two collegiate seasons at Mississippi State and scored three goals in 32 games.

Scoring Surge

     Olyvia Dowell has added firepower to the OSU attack since stepping on campus in 2019.
     As a freshman, Dowell recorded five goals and eight assists, and she followed that with an even more impressive showing as a sophomore.
     Last season, Dowell ranked fifth in the NCAA with 31 points as she tallied 12 goals and seven assists. Her 12 goals tied for the Big 12 lead along with teammate Grace Yochum and ranked sixth nationally; the seven assists topped the conference. Dowell's goal total also marked the most ever goals by an OSU sophomore, and the 31 points was the seventh most in a single season in program history.
     Dowell entered her junior season needing just three assists to move into OSU's career top 10 list.

Honor Roll

     A list of current Cowgirls who have been recognized with national and conference accolades, along with 2021 season weekly awards.
     • Kim Rodriguez - MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List (2020 & 2021); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Preseason Best XI First Team (2021); United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches DI Women's Player of Distinction Award (2020); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Best XI First Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region First Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches All-South Region Third Team (2018); All-Big 12 First Team (2019 & 2020); All-Big 12 Second Team (2018); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2017)
     • Grace Yochum - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (8/31); All-Big 12 Second Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team (2020) & Second Team (2019); All-Big 12 First Team (2019); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2018)
     • Olyvia Dowell - TopDrawerSoccer.Com Preseason Best XI Second Team (2021); All-Big 12 First Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Second Team (2020); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Best XI Third Team (2020); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2019)
     • Charmé Morgan - All-Big 12 Second Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team (2020) & Second Team (2019)
     • Gabriella Coleman - All-Big 12 Second Team (2020)
     • Kionna Simon - Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2020)
     • Grace Dennis - Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2020)
     • Evie Vitali - Big 12 Freshman of the Week (8/31)