Cowgirl Soccer Set To Take On Texas Tech

Oklahoma State (4-5-2, 0-2-1) at #13 Texas Tech (8-1-1, 2-0-1)

Thurs., Oct. 2 • 7 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas • John Walker Soccer Complex

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About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 4-5-2 overall and 0-2-1 in Big 12 Conference play as the Cowgirls head to the Lone Star State to take on No. 13 Texas Tech Thursday night in Lubbock.
     • The Cowgirls are coming off a 14-5-3 season in 2024 in which they finished fifth in the Big 12 Conference standings with a 6-3-2 mark and earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, where OSU lost in the first round to No. 2 national seed Arkansas.
     • OSU returned seven players who started at least 10 games for the Cowgirls last season, including All-Big 12 performers Gracie Bindbeutel, Xcaret Pineda and Laudan Wilson.
     • Colin Carmichael entered his 21st season as OSU's head coach in 2025 with a career record of
265-110-53 (.681).

Last Week

OSU battled No. 17 Arizona State to a scoreless draw in Tempe Thursday night as Logan Marks recorded a career-high nine saves en route to the clean sheet. The Cowgirls ended their road trip with a 3-1 loss at Arizona on Sunday. Sonora DeFini needed the lone goal for OSU.

Scouting The Opponent

     • Texas Tech is 8-1-1 overall and tied for second place in the Big 12 standings with a 2-0-1 mark. The Red Raiders are undefeated at home this season with a 3-0-1 record.
     • Tom Stone is in his 19th season as TTU's head coach and owns a career record of 219-107-52.
     • The Cowgirls are 16-10-7 all time against Texas Tech but are winless against the Red Raiders since a victory in Stillwater in 2020. In the last five meetings, OSU is 0-2-3 against TTU.

In The Rankings

In the latest official NCAA RPI, the Cowgirls check in at No. 59, while Texas Tech is No. 24. The Red Raiders are ranked 13th in the TopDrawerSoccer.com poll and 18th by the United Soccer Coaches.
OSU fell out of the national rankings following the opening week of the season after being ranked No. 22 in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll. That appearance marked the first time the Cowgirls had been ranked to open a season since 2021 when they were No. 16 in the preseason rankings.

Next Up

A year ago, the Cowgirls outscored their opponents, 42-15, while recording 15 shutouts in 22 games.
However, in 2025, OSU had to replace two-year starting goalie Grace Gordon, who played all but 70 minutes in goal last season, as well as 55 percent of its scoring as the returning group combined for just 19 goals in 2024. The only returning Cowgirls who had more than two goals a year ago are Xcaret Pineda (6) and Laudan Wilson (5).

Injury Bug Biting

     Injuries have taken a huge toll on the Cowgirls this season, with numerous key players forced to go on the shelf. Among them:
     • All-Big 12 midfielder Laudan Wilson, OSU's leading scorer last season, played in only one of the Cowgirls' first eight games (vs. Oklahoma on Aug. 17). She returned to action off the bench vs. Kansas.
     • Gracie Bindbeutel, an All-Big 12 forward, was lost for the remainder of the season with a knee injury after starting the first five games
     • Starting midfielder Chloe Wright has missed two games
     • Lexi Lee has missed eight games
     • Emmy Hedden missed the first seven games of the season
     • Juliette Perreault missed the first five games of the season
     • Leading goal scorer and All-Big 12 midfielder Xcaret Pineda was injured late in the first half against Oral Roberts and did not return to the game; she has missed the last four games
     • Starting goalie Logan Marks was injured in the first half vs. Kansas and missed the final 57 minutes
     • Bella Pierotti was injured in the first half vs. Kansas and did not return; she missed the last two games

X Gon' Give It To Ya

     It's safe to say OSU's offense runs through Xcaret Pineda.
     The Cowgirls' senior midfielder has played a role in six of OSU's 16 goals this season, finding the back of the net five times and also recording an assist. She notched the first multi-goal game of her career with a brace against Arkansas State.
     With just one more goal, Pineda will tie her career high for goals in a season — she has tallied six each of the last two years.
     In 68 career games, 64 as a starter, Pineda has recorded 19 goals and 12 assists while taking 157 shots.

She's A Giver

     Laudan Wilson tallied nine assists last season as a sophomore, which ranked second in the Big 12 and was the most assists in a season by a Cowgirl since Jaci Jones had 12 in 2019.
     Wilson also added five goals, which ranked third on the squad, as she led the Cowgirls with 19 points.
     With 15 assists in her career, Wilson is five away from cracking the top 10 list in program history.

Four Corners

OSU has recorded 65 corner kicks, an average of nearly six per game, and the Cowgirls have taken advantage of those scoring opportunities as six of their 16 goals have come off corner kicks.
Taryn Thibeau has a career-high three assists, each coming off a corner kick, while Jazmin Brown's two goals are also a career best and came on headers off corner kicks. Sonora DeFini has also scored two headers off corners.

I Can Score Too

     Ellie Geoffroy has established herself as one of OSU's top defenders over the last three seasons, but against East Texas A&M, she proved she can be a scoring threat.
     Geoffroy recorded the first multi-goal game of career with a brace against the Lions as she netted OSU's first two goals of the game in a five-minute span in the first half. She also had an assist in the game.
     Entering the game, Geoffroy did not have a goal or assist on the season, and she previously had four career goals in 65 games.

Dandy Debut

Emmy Hedden had an immediate impact in her first collegiate game. After missing OSU's first seven games due to injury, Hedden was in the starting lineup against East Texas A&M and produced a goal and an assist to earn Big 12 Co-Freshman of the Week honors.
Hedden notched an assist on OSU's second goal then converted her only shot of the game as she scored on a 35-yard strike upper 90 for the first goal of her career.

Lockdown Lo

In her first season as OSU's starting goalie, sophomore Logan Marks leads the Big 12 with 49 saves and an average of 4.45 saves per game.
Last week, Marks recorded a career-high nine saves and her first clean sheet in Big 12 play against 17th-ranked Arizona State and followed that with an eight-save performance against Arizona.

Oklahoma State (4-5-2, 0-2-1) at #13 Texas Tech (8-1-1, 2-0-1)

Thurs., Oct. 2 • 7 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas • John Walker Soccer Complex

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Players Mentioned

Gracie Bindbeutel

Jazmin Brown

Sonora DeFini

Ellie Geoffroy

Grace Gordon

Emmy Hedden

Lexi Lee

Logan Marks

Juliette Perreault

Bella Pierotti

Xcaret Pineda

Taryn Thibeau

Laudan Wilson

Chloe Wright

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