WHO: Denver (0-2-0, 0-0-0 Summit) at t-No. 24 Texas A&M (1-0-0, 0-0-0 SEC)
WHAT: DU's first road match of the 2024 season
WHERE: Ellis Field (College Station, Texas)
WHEN: Wednesday, August 21, at 7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT
LAST TIME OUT:
Denver closed out the opening weekend of the 2024 season with a 1-0 loss to Idaho State on Sunday, August 18. For the second match in a row, DU headed into halftime with a 0-0 scoreline before ISU snuck a ball barely across the goal line in the 58
th minute. Denver dominated the offensive statistics for the match – including outshooting the Bengals, 18-7 – but could not find an equalizer.
QUICK HITS:
- Wednesday's match will be Denver's second of three against a Power-4 opponent this year after DU opened the season against North Carolina on August 15. Denver will also play at Colorado on September 5.
- This will be just the seventh time in Denver's Division I history that the team has played a regular-season match on a Wednesday and the first since hosting Wyoming on October 2, 2002.
- When including postseason matches, Denver has played on a Wednesday on 17 prior occasions after opening the Sun Belt tournament on a Wednesday every year from 2001-11.
- This is DU's first regular-season match to be played on a day other than Thursday-Sunday since hosting SMU on Monday, September 6, 2021.
- In both of Denver's matches so far in 2024, the Pioneers have held their opponent to just a single corner kick.
- A total of 22 Denver student-athletes have seen playing time through the first two matches, and only seven have started in both.
- Three Pioneers made their collegiate debuts on Sunday in redshirt freshmen Shay Payne and Nora Zelazny, and junior Alina Santos, who started in goal.
- In total, five DU players have made their first collegiate appearances through two matches this season – and only one is a true freshman.
- Among the Pioneers who extended notable playing streaks in the match against Idaho State were:
- Senior Riley Baker, who has now started in 31 of DU's last 33 matches;
- Senior Ella Frost, who continued her streak of playing in every match of her career; and
- Graduate student Vanessa Murray, who started in her 29th-straight match.
SCOUTING THE AGGIES:
This will be the first meeting between Denver and Texas A&M.
The Aggies have played just once in 2024, posting a 5-0 win at Lamar – which is Denver's next opponent – on opening night. Two Texas A&M players posted braces in the match – Sydney Becerra and Grace Ivey – with Becerra adding an assist for a five-point showing.
WHAT'S NEXT:
Denver will remain in the state of Texas to close the week with a meeting at Lamar on Sunday, August 25, at 7 p.m. CT/6 p.m. MT.
TICKETS
Season and single-match tickets for the 2024 University of Denver women's soccer season are now on sale and can be purchased at
denverpioneers.com/tickets or by calling the Ritchie Center Box Office at 303-871-4625.
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