Oklahoma State Soccer Returns Home for Two this Weekend
Florida Atlantic (0-0-2) at Oklahoma State (1-1-0)
Thurs., Aug. 24 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium
Little Rock (0-0-1) at Oklahoma State (1-1-0)
Sun., Aug. 27 • 1 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium
TV/Video: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe & Anna Beffer)
Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM (Bill Van Ness)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Scoreboard/Updates: @CowgirlFC
About Oklahoma State
• Oklahoma State is 1-1-0 after opening the season with a 4-0 win at home against Stephen F. Austin before a 2-1 setback at Missouri State.
• OSU is coming off an 11-4-4 season in 2022 in which the Cowgirls finished fifth in the Big 12 standings with a 4-2-3 mark.
• The Cowgirls return 11 letterwinners from last season, including five starters in Xcaret Pineda, Mollie Breiner, Megan Haines, Alex Morris and Gracie Bindbeutel (out for 2023 with injury).
• The 2023 season is the 28th in program history; over the first 27, OSU posted a 322-177-63 (.629) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 19th season at the helm in 2023 with a 239-97-50 mark.
Scouting The Opponents
• Florida Atlantic is 0-0-2 on the season, with a 2-2 tie at home against Little Rock in its season opener and a 1-1 draw at Miami.
• The Owls went 11-8-3 last season under head coach Patrick Baker, who is in his 11th season at FAU.
• This will mark the second-ever meeting between OSU and FAU; last season, the two teams battled to a scoreless draw in Boca Raton.
• Little Rock will face Oral Roberts on Thursday in Tulsa before traveling to Stillwater.
• The Trojans opened their season with a 2-2 tie at Florida Atlantic before having a game at Florida Gulf Coast canceled due to lightning. Little Rock is coming off a 5-7-5 season in 2022.
• OSU is 8-0-0 all time against Little Rock. The last meeting came in 2021, with the Cowgirls winning 3-0 in Stillwater.
Welcome Back
The 2023 Cowgirls are short on experience but do have several returning veterans. Senior Mollie Breiner has started 34 games at defender over the last two seasons, while fifth-year Cowgirl Megan Haines has seen her role increase over her career and has been a starter 34 times in the last three years. Another senior, Alex Morris, started 15 games last season and posted a career-high three assists.
New Faces
The Cowgirls' 29-player 2023 roster counts 13 newcomers, including 10 freshmen and three transfers.
OSU's recruiting class was ranked 23rd nationally by TopDrawerSoccer.com; only Texas (14th) had a higher-ranking class than the Cowgirls' among Big 12 programs.
• Three of OSU's freshmen are on the list of TopDrawerSoccer.com's IMG Academy Top 200 players for the '23 recruiting class — midfielders Laudan Wilson (No. 74) and Lexi Lee (No. 78) and defender Addison Roberts (No. 168).
• Wilson and Roberts were early enrollees in January 2023 and participated in the Cowgirls' spring exhibition season.
• From the transfer portal, OSU added goalie Grace Gordon from Seton Hall and midfielder/forward Nicole Ray from Utah Valley, both of whom were three-year starters at their previous schools. The Cowgirls' roster also got a boost from Oklahoma transfer Ellie Geoffroy, who played in 19 games for OSU's Bedlam rival as a freshman last season.
First Timers
All five of OSU's goals this season have been scored by players who entered the season without a collegiate goal, with junior Hannah Chance, sophomore Logan Heausler and freshmen Adelhia Ghonda and Laudan Wilson all finding the back of the net.
Cowgirl Country
Oklahoma State's 2023 roster includes players from nine states as well as Canada and Northern Ireland.
Home Sweet Home
OSU has won 77 percent of its games in four seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, which opened in 2019. The Cowgirls are 35-9-5 on their current home turf, including a 1-0-0 mark this season.
OSU has gone undefeated at home in seven seasons in its history, the last time coming in 2019.
