WHO: Denver (2-0-3, 0-0-0 Summit) at Arizona (3-2-0, 0-0-0 Big 12)
WHAT: DU's third of five Power-Four matches in 2025
WHERE: Mulcahy Stadium (Tucson, Arizona)
WHEN: Thursday, September 4, at 8 p.m. MDT (Denver time)/7 p.m. MST (Arizona time)
 
LAST TIME OUT:
Denver used two goals on each side of halftime to post a 4-1 win against Southern Utah on August 31. Four different Pioneers scored in the match with redshirt sophomore Shay Payne netting the game winner in the 29^th minute with the first goal of her career. Junior Alanna Raimondo opened the scoring in the fifth minute, posting her first goal as a Pioneer.
 
Senior Isabella Chidiac had the assist on both of DU's second-half goals, first with redshirt junior Emma Thielbahr off a 68^th-minute corner kick and then with a feed to freshman Lilly Lund in the 86^th minute for Lund's first collegiate goal.
 
QUICK HITS:

• Denver enters the week as one of 32 NCAA Division I teams that remains undefeated thus far.
  • DU's 2-0-3 record marks the fourth time the Pioneers have not dropped a match through the first five of a season and the first since head coach Julianne Sitch 's first year in 2023.
• DU has not allowed a first-half goal to an opponent so far in 2025.
• For just the fourth time, Denver scored goals in the both the first and last five minutes of a single match with its 4:07 and 85:19 goals against SUU (last: November 6, 2021, against South Dakota State at 0:29 and 85:42).
  • It was also the 17^th time scoring inside the first and last 10 minutes of a single match and the first since September 3, 2023, at home against NC State (7:04 and 83:05).
• For the first time since September 8, 2024 – also against Southern Utah – Denver scored in both the first and last 10 minutes of a match with Raimondo's goal at 4:07 and Lund's goal at 85:19 on August 31.
• With redshirt freshman Grace Dreiling making her collegiate debut against SUU, all but six DU student-athletes on the roster have seen minutes in 2025. Two of the six not to play are goalkeepers.
• Denver's next three matches all feature an opponent from the Big 12 Conference. DU will play at Arizona State on Sunday, September 7, before Denver hosts Colorado on Thursday, September 11.
  • Overall, DU's non-conference schedule features five Power-Four opponents. So far, DU posted a 0-0 draw against Baylor in a neutral-site match on August 21; and the Pioneers led a shorthanded Texas A&M, 1-0, in the 68^th minute at home on August 28 when the match was declared a no contest due to weather delay.
  • DU is 1-1-1 in its last three completed matches against Power-Four teams including the draw against Baylor this year.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS:
This will be the fifth meeting between Denver and Arizona, and the first since November 9, 2018, when DU traveled to Tucson in a 3-0 Arizona win. DU also played at Arizona in Denver's first season as an NCAA Division I program in 1998, falling to the Wildcats, 1-3. The Pioneers captured a 3-0 shutout of Arizona in the teams' only meeting in Denver on October 5, 2001.
 
Arizona is coming off 1-2 loss at former Pac-12 Conference opponent California on August 31. The Golden Bears held a 2-0 lead at halftime before Arizona's Lily Boydstun pulled one back in the 59^th minute.
 
Through the first month of the season, a trio of Wildcats lead the team with two goals apiece: Boydstun, Aurora Gaines and Jessica Bedolla. Boydstun is also one of three Arizona players with two assists on the year, joining Sami Baytosh and Rose Calkins. Olivia Ramey has started in goal in all five matches, and Sofia Cortes-Browne played 17 minutes against Stanford.
 
UP NEXT:
Denver remains in the state of Arizona for the weekend before playing its non-conference road finale at Arizona State on Sunday, September 7, at 10 a.m. MST/11 a.m. MDT.
 
DU returns home next week for its final two non-conference matches to host in-state rivals Colorado and Colorado State on September 11 and 14, respectively. Kickoff against CU is set for 7 p.m. MT on the 11^th while DU and CSU will play in the first match of a Denver Soccer doubleheader at 12 p.m. on the 14^th.
 
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.