Cowgirl Soccer Embarks On Final Road Trip Of Season

Thursday, October 23

Cincinnati OH

6:00 PM (CDT)

Oklahoma State University

Cincinnati

Image Taken at UCF, 16, 10, 2025, Neal Patterson Stadium, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Mya Montonati/OSU Athletics.

Photo by: Oklahoma State University Athletics

October 22, 2025 | Cowgirl Soccer

Week 11 Cincinnati & West Virginia

Oklahoma State (4-10-2, 0-7-1) at Cincinnati (3-7-6, 1-5-2)

Thurs., Oct. 23 • 6 p.m. (CDT)

Cincinnati, Ohio • Gettler Stadium

Oklahoma State (4-10-2, 0-7-1) at #22 West Virginia (10-2-3, 5-0-3)

Sun., Oct. 26 • 11 a.m. (CDT)

Morgantown, W.Va. • Dick Dlesk Stadium

TV/Video: Thurs. - ESPN+ (Anthony Mazzini & Alexa Burkart)

Sun. - ESPNU (Jon Yardley & Paddy Foss)

Radio: n/a

Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com

Twitter In-Game Scoreboard/Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

• Oklahoma State is 4-10-2 overall and 0-7-1 in Big 12 Conference play. Up next, the Cowgirls embark on their final road trip of the season as they take on Cincinnati Thursday night before a Sunday contest at West Virginia.

• 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).

Three Decades

The 2024 season marks the 30th in program history, and Oklahoma State has built itself into one of women's college soccer's top programs.

• Over its first 29 seasons, OSU posted a 348-190-66 (.631) record.

• OSU has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. The Cowgirls have earned a NCAA tourney berth in 13 of the last 19 years (beginning in 2006) and seven of the last 12.

• 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.

• Six Cowgirls have earned All-America honors, with Yolanda Odenyo, AD Franch, Melinda Mercado, Haley Woodard, Kim Rodriguez and Grace Yochum on that elite list.

Last Week

OSU dropped a 2-1 match at home to UCF before going on the road and losing 3-1 at No. 13 TCU. Emma Alvord scored both goals for the Cowgirls on the week.

Scouting The Opponents

• Cincinnati is 3-7-6 overall and 14th in the Big 12 standings with a 1-5-2 mark.

• Erica Demers is in her third season as UC's head coach and owns a 13-24-17 record with the Bearcats.

• The Cowgirls are 2-1-0 all time against Cincinnati. Last season, OSU won twice against the Bearcats, claiming a 1-0 victory in Stillwater and a 3-2 triumph at the Big 12 Championship in Kansas City.

• Ranked 22nd nationally, West Virginia is 10-2-3 overall and fourth in the Big 12 standings with a 5-0-3 mark heading into Thursday's game at home against Iowa State.

• The only head coach in program history, Nikki Izzo-Brown is in her 30th season at WVU and owns a career 412-145-79 record.

• OSU is 3-11-1 in the all-time series with WVU. The Cowgirls' three wins came from 2019-2021, with the '19 and '21 victories coming in Morgantown. The Mountaineers were 1-0 winners in the last meeting, which came in 2023 in Morgantown.

In The Rankings

In the latest official NCAA RPI, the Cowgirls check in at No. 103, while Cincinnati is No. 148 and West Virginia No. 7. OSU's schedule is ranked as the fourth 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.

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 13 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 seven 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. Brown was injured just eight minutes into the UCF match and did not return, then missed the TCU contest.

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 seven of OSU's 20 goals this season, finding the back of the net five times and also recording a pair of assists. 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 72 career games, 70 as a starter, Pineda has recorded 19 goals and 13 assists while taking 164 shots.

Four Corners

OSU has recorded 77 corner kicks, an average of nearly five per game, and the Cowgirls have taken advantage of those scoring opportunities as seven of their 20 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 78 saves and an average of nearly five saves per game. She ranks 30th nationally in total saves.

Marks is three saves away from moving into the top 10 on OSU's season saves list, and she already ranks 10th on the program's career saves list with 79.

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).