Cowgirl Soccer Set For Split Weekend

Thursday, October 16

Stillwater, OK

7:00 PM

Oklahoma State University

UCF

Tickets

October 15, 2025 | Cowgirl Soccer

Week 10 UCF & TCU

UCF (8-2-3, 2-1-3) at Oklahoma State (4-8-2, 0-5-1)

Thurs., Oct. 16 • 7 p.m.

Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

Oklahoma State (4-8-2, 0-5-1) at #13 TCU (10-2-1, 4-1-1)

Sun., Oct. 19 • 1 p.m.

Fort Worth, Texas • Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium

TV/Video: ESPN+ (Fri. - Dave Saunders & Anna Berghall Sun. - Chuck LaMendola & Chris Blake)

Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio Pete 94.3 FM (Fri.) & KGFY 105.5 FM (Sun.) (Ryan Breeden)

Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com

Twitter In-Game Scoreboard/Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

• Oklahoma State is 4-8-2 overall and 0-5-1 in Big 12 Conference play. Up next, the Cowgirls host UCF Thursday night at Neal Patterson Stadium before traveling to Fort Worth for a Sunday match at TCU.

• 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 Time Out

OSU dropped a 2-1 match at home to Kansas State. Sonora DeFini scored for the Cowgirls, and Logan Marks recorded seven saves.

Scouting The Opponents

• UCF is 8-2-3 overall and seventh in the Big 12 standings with a 2-1-3 mark.

• Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak is in her 13th season as UCF's head coach. In 19 seasons as a head coach, which also includes six seasons at VCU, she has compiled a career record of 182-113-54.

• The Cowgirls are 2-2-0 all time against UCF. Last season, OSU was a 2-0 winner in Orlando.

• Ranked 13th nationally, TCU is 10-2-1 overall and fourth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-1-1 mark going into a Thursday night match at home against Baylor.

• Eric Bell is in his 14th season as TCU's head coach and owns a career 159-83-41 record.

• OSU is 6-9-2 in the all-time series with TCU. The Frogs have won the last six matches and are 7-0-1 against the Cowgirls since 2018.

In The Rankings

In the latest official NCAA RPI, the Cowgirls check in at No. 98, while UCF is No. 29 and TCU No. 5. OSU's schedule is ranked as the sixth toughest nationally.

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.

Dynamic Duo

Senior Xcaret Pineda and junior Laudan Wilson are both on the United Soccer Coaches 2025 Women's Midfielders to Watch list, which is compiled and released by the Division I All-America Committee.

It's An Honor

OSU returns four players who were recognized with Big 12 honors in 2024 in All-Big 12 First Team midfielders Xcaret Pineda and Laudan Wilson, All-Big 12 Second Team forward Gracie Bindbeutel and defender Katelyn Hoppers, who was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team.

The Cowgirls also added transfer Jazmin Brown, who was an All-Big 12 Second Team defender at Kansas State a year ago.

Elite

Xcaret Pineda is one of 43 players on the 2025 Hermann Trophy Watch List, which was compiled by members of the Division I Women's All-America Council.

The Hermann Trophy is the nation's highest individual honor recognizing the National Player of the Year as determined by voting of Division I head coaches who are members of United Soccer Coaches.

OSU has had two Hermann Trophy semifinalists in its history, Yolanda Odenyo in 2008, and AD Franch, who made the list in 2010 and 2011.

Injury Bug Biting

Injuries have taken a huge toll on the Cowgirls this season, with numerous key players forced to go on the shelf. Those injuries have prohibited OSU from having the same starting lineup in multiple games this season. Among the injured:

• 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 11 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 missed the next five games before returning vs. BYU

• 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. KU and did not return; she missed the last five games

• Aubrey Wagner missed three games after suffering an injury at Arizona State

• Starting defenders Sophie Wilson and Jazmin Brown were injured in the opening half at Texas Tech and did not return; both missed the BYU game

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 70 career games, 68 as a starter, Pineda has recorded 19 goals and 12 assists while taking 161 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 72 corner kicks, an average of nearly just over five per game, and the Cowgirls have taken advantage of those scoring opportunities as six of their 18 goals have come off corner kicks.

Taryn Thibeau has a team-leading and career-high four assists, three of those off corner kicks. Jazmin Brown's two goals are a career best and came on headers off corners, and Sonora DeFini also has two goals on 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 68 saves and an average of nearly five saves per game. She ranks 34th nationally in total saves.

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.

Coach Colin

Colin Carmichael has been a member of the OSU coaching staff for each of the program's 30 seasons, including 21 as a head coach. He has been named Big 12 Coach of the Year a conference-record six times.

Carmichael entered the 2025 season with 265 career wins in 20 seasons, ranking third among active Big 12 coaches in wins at their current school behind only BYU's Jennifer Rockwood (464 wins in 31 seasons) and West Virginia's Nikki Izzo-Brown (402 wins in 29 seasons).