DENVER – The University of Denver women's soccer team (6-3-3, 3-0-0 Summit) scored three times – all from first-time collegiate scorers – to earn a 3-0 shutout win against Kansas City at University of Denver Soccer Stadium on Thursday night.
Redshirt sophomore
Luci Vincent, who earned her first collegiate point earlier this year, found the back of the net herself for the first time to open scoring in the 24
th minute following a beautiful ball into the box from freshman
Lilly Lund.
Redshirt freshman
Grace Dreiling made it 2-0 heading into halftime, pushing it across the line after collecting a quick tap off a bouncing ball from redshirt junior
Emma Thielbahr.
Senior
Isabella Chidiac, who leads the team with six assists on the year, finally found her first collegiate goal, finishing a cross from redshirt senior
Samantha Dreiling in the 66
th minute.
SIGNIFICANT STATS:
- Denver has now won four consecutive matches including three in a row to begin Summit League play.
- Vincent, G. Dreiling and Chidiac became the ninth, 10th and 11th goal scorers for Denver on the season.
- Fourteen Pioneers own at least one point this year with Thielbahr leading the way on 10 points after adding an assist on G. Dreiling's goal.
- Vincent is now the fifth DU player to net a game winner in 2025 thus far.
- Chidiac and Thielbahr each have at least one point earned in three of the last four matches.
- Redshirt junior Alina Santos made the save on the only Kansas City shot on goal of the night, giving her a fourth clean sheet this season.
- Santos is currently riding a 164-minute shutout streak.
- DU only allowed seven total shot attempts from the Roos, a new season's best performance.
- Denver out shot Kansas City, 15-7, as well as 6-1 in shots on target.
- For the second time this year, DU players combined for four total assists in a single match.
- Denver's 3-0 win is its biggest shutout victory against a Summit League opponent since a 4-0 win over Western Illinois on October 14, 2022.
FIRST HALF:
9' | The first serious scoring chance of the day came on shots inside the box from redshirt freshman
Rowan LaPiano and S. Dreiling that were blocked by a defender and saved by the keeper, respectively.
24' | From down the left side of the pitch, Lund sent a ball perfectly through the penalty area and found Vincent in stride at the back post where the redshirt sophomore had the easy tap-in goal.
31' | Redshirt junior
Hannah Tate took a look from 20 yards back and placed it well toward the top of the net, forcing a leaping save from the UMKC keeper.
31' | On the subsequent corner, Chidiac passed the ball to junior
Alanna Raimondo at the edge of the 18-yard box. Raimondo served the ball toward the far post and found Thielbahr, but her header flew narrowly over the crossbar.
40' | Chidiac took a free kick from near the Kansas City bench and landed it inside the six-yard box. The ball bounced between G. Dreiling and Thielbahr before the redshirt freshman found the ball at her feet and pushed it into the back of the net.
SECOND HALF:
66' | From the top of the box, LaPiano found S. Dreiling to her right, who sent the ball right back the other way and along the edge of the six-yard back. Chidiac met it in stride, redirecting it past the keeper and into the top of the net.
83' | Denver thought it had a fourth goal on the night off the foot of Lund from near the penalty spot, but the goal was disallowed for offside.
WHAT'S NEXT:
The University of Denver women's soccer team hits the midway point of its three-match homestand when it welcomes Oral Roberts on Sunday, October 5, at 1 p.m. MT.
TICKETS
Tickets for the 2025 Denver women's soccer season are now on sale and available for
purchase online, by calling 303-871-4625 or by visiting the Ritchie Center Box Office.
