Cowgirl Soccer Home For Pair Of Matches

#10 TCU (8-2-4, 3-0-2) at Oklahoma State (9-1-3, 2-0-2)

Thurs., Oct. 13 • 7 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.

Neal Patterson Stadium

Iowa State (3-7-3, 0-4-1) at Oklahoma State (9-1-3, 2-0-2)

Sun., Oct. 16 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.

Neal Patterson Stadium

 
TV/Video: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe & Anna Beffer)
Radio: Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM/stillwaterradio.net (Bill Van Ness)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC
 

About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 9-1-3 and in third place in the Big 12 standings at 2-0-2 in conference play. The Cowgirls begin a four-game homestand this week, hosting TCU on Thursday and closing the week with Iowa State on Sunday.
    • OSU is coming off a 9-6-3 season in 2021 in which the Cowgirls finished fourth in the Big 12 standings at 4-3-1.
     • The Cowgirls return 11 letterwinners from last season, including six starters and a pair of three-time All-Big 12 performers in Grace Yochum and Olyvia Dowell.
     • The 2022 season is the 27th in program history; over the first 26, OSU posted a 311-173-59 (.627) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 17th season at the helm in 2021 with a 228-93-46 mark.
 

Scouting The Opponents

     • TCU is 8-2-4 overall and second in the Big 12 standings at 3-0-2 in league play.
     • The 10th-ranked Horned Frogs are led by All-American Messiah Bright, who has eight goals and three assists on the season. TCU is in its 11th season under head coach Eric Bell.
     • OSU is 6-6-3 in the all-time series with TCU; the Cowgirls haven’t beaten the Frogs since 2017 (0-4-1).
     • Iowa State is 3-7-3 overall and tied for ninth in the Big 12 standings at 0-4-1 in league play entering a Thursday night game at home against Baylor.
     • ISU, in its third season under head coach Matt Fannon, has been outscored 24-11 on the year.
     • OSU is 13-10-2 all time against Iowa State and has won the last two meetings.
 

D-Fense

     OSU has allowed only six goals this season while posting a 0.46 goals against average, .880 save percentage and eight shutouts – the Cowgirls lead the Big 12 in each of those categories. They rank eighth nationally in goals against average, 10th in save percentage and 19th in shutouts.
 

Goal Queen

     Grace Yochum sits atop the list of Oklahoma State’s all-time goal scorers.
     In 80 career games, Yochum has amassed 40 goals. Against Stephen F. Austin, she tied OSU’s previous career record of 35 with her first goal and then broke the mark with her second of the contest.
     The previous record of 35 was held by Jolene Schweitzer and Yolanda Odenyo. Schweitzer first set the mark in 2004, and Odenyo tied it in 2008.
     As a freshman in 2018, Yochum tallied four goals. She followed that with 11 as a sophomore, 12 in 2020 and six last season. Her five goals this season are tied for the most in the Big 12.
     Yochum is also second on the Cowgirls’ all-time points list with 89. Odenyo tops that list with 90.
 

Scoring Surge

     Olyvia Dowell has added firepower to the OSU attack since stepping on campus in 2019.
     With 30 career goals, Dowell is tied for sixth on OSU’s all-time list, and her 80 points is seventh. She also ranks third with 233 shots.
     As a freshman, Dowell recorded five goals and eight assists, and she followed that with an even more impressive showing as a sophomore as she ranked fifth in the NCAA with 31 points on the strength of 12 goals and seven assists. Her 12 goals tied for the Big 12 lead along with teammate Grace Yochum and ranked sixth nationally; the seven assists topped the conference. Dowell’s goal total also marked the most ever goals by an OSU sophomore, and the 31 points was the seventh most in a single season in program history.
     Dowell tied for the OSU team lead with six goals in 2021, with five of her goals coming in Big 12 play.
 

Clutch

     Grace Yochum and Olyvia Dowell have combined for 28 game-winning goals in their careers, with Yochum notching 20 and Dowell adding eight.
     Yochum led the NCAA with eight game-winning goals during the 2020 season, and her three game winners are the seventh most in the NCAA this season.
 

Award Tour

     • Olyvia Dowell was the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for Week One after leading the league with three goals in the first two games of the season.
     • Grace Yochum was the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for Week Four after scoring four goals in a pair of wins and setting OSU’s all-time goals record in the process.
     • For their Week Five performances in wins over Mercer and Brown, Jordan Nytes was named the Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week, while Olyvia Dowell was named to the College Soccer News Women’s National Team of the week and was honorable mention for the TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week.
     • After leading OSU to a pair of shutouts on the opening weekend of Big 12 play, Jordan Nytes was named the Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week and to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week, while Mollie Breiner was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week.
 

Freshmen Showing Out

     Freshman goalie Jordan Nytes has started every game in goal for the Cowgirls this season and in just over 1,115 minutes of action, she leads the Big 12 and ranks 14th nationally in goals against average (0.48) and save percentage (.878). She has recorded five shutouts, which ranks fourth in the conference, and has combined for three others as OSU leads the league with eight clean sheets.
     Fellow frosh Gracie Bindbeutel ranks among the NCAA leaders in shot accuracy, with 18 of her 30 shots (.619) being on goal. Bindbeutel ranks third on the Cowgirls with four goals on the year.
 

Checking The Rankings

     OSU remains No. 3 in this week’s United Soccer Coaches Midwest Region rankings; the Cowgirls are behind conference foes TCU and Texas. OSU also received nine votes in the United Soccer Coaches national rankings poll.
     The Cowgirls checked in at No. 32 in the official NCAA RPI, while TCU is No. 17 and Iowa State No. 214.
 

Home Sweet Home

     In five seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, OSU has compiled a 33-7-4 record (.795) on its home turf, including a 3-0-1 mark this season.
     The Cowgirls went 10-0-1 on their home field in 2019, the seventh time in program history OSU has gone undefeated at home in a season.