WHO: Denver (2-2-0, 0-0-0 Summit) vs. CSUN (1-3-0, 0-0-0 Big West)
WHAT: DU's third home match of 2024 season
WHERE: University of Denver Soccer Stadium (Denver, Colorado)
WHEN: Thursday, August 29, at 7 p.m. MT
 
LAST TIME OUT:
Denver finished up its road trip through Texas with a 3-0 win at Lamar on August 25. For the second-straight match, freshman Megan Murray netted the game winner with an assist from sophomore Michaela McGowan to open scoring in the 48^th minute. Sophomore Liv Moritz scored her first of the season just 1:47 later to give DU a 2-0 lead before redshirt sophomore Hannah Tate added a third DU goal and the first of her career in the 80^th minute.
 
Junior goalkeeper Alina Santos started in net for just the second time in her career and collected DU's first clean sheet of the season.
 
QUICK HITS:

• M. McGowan was named to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week and earned Summit League Offensive Peak Performer of the Week honors following her six-point performance last week.
  • The sophomore scored Denver's opening goal at No. 24 Texas A&M before adding assists on four-consecutive DU goals – two apiece at Texas A&M and at Lamar.
  • In total, she played a role in five-straight DU goals, which is tied the third-longest streak in Denver's DI history.
  • She is the seventh DU women's soccer player to land on the TDS weekly national team and the first since Natalie Beckman was the TDS National Player of the Week on February 23, 2021.
• In back-to-back seasons, a Denver freshman has now scored the game winner in consecutive matches with M. Murray's feat at Texas A&M and Lamar.
  • Moritz did so last year with wins against Colgate and at Oregon on September 7 and 10, 2023.
• M. Murray and M. McGowan rank among the best DI underclassmen in the country through the first two weeks of play:
  • M. Murray is one of only four DI freshmen to have multiple game winners.
  • M. McGowan is the only underclassman (freshmen and sophomores) to own at least four assists.
• Denver's first two goals at Lamar were scored just 1:47 apart – the fifth-fastest consecutive goals in a road match in DU's Division I history.
• With its 3-2 win at Texas A&M and 3-0 win at Lamar, Denver scored at least three goals in consecutive non-conference road matches for the first time since August 25 and September 1, 2013 (3-0 neutral-site win against Northern Colorado and 3-2 win at UC Irvine).

SCOUTING THE MATADORS:
This will be the third meeting between DU and CSUN with Denver holding a 1-0-1 all-time record. The teams have never played in Denver before with the only two previous results coming at CSUN (a 1-0 Denver win on September 19, 2019) and at a neutral site in Colorado Springs, Colorado (a 0-0 draw after double OT on September 3, 2000).
 
The Matadors earned their first win of the year in their most recent match, posting a 2-1 result against LMU on August 25. Three CSUN players have goals this season including Jordyn Canister, who was named the Big West Freshman of the Week after scoring the game winner versus LMU.
 
WHAT'S NEXT:
Denver hosts Colorado College on Sunday, September 1, at 1 p.m. MT, the team's final home match before the Pioneers head out on a five-match road trip that will keep them away from home for nearly the entire month of September.
 
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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