Sunday, August 27
Seattle, WA
1:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
San Diego
U Dub Set For Sunday Matinee With San Diego
August 26, 2023 | Women's Soccer
SEATTLE – Playing on its home ground for the third time in four matches, Washington (1-1-1) looks to get back to winning ways on Sunday, hosting San Diego at 1 p.m. PT at Husky Soccer Stadium
Much like Thursday, it'll be a doubleheader on Montlake as the Husky men will face USD following the UW women's match. First kick for that match is set for 4 p.m.
Sunday's contest will be the Dawgs' Camper Appreciation Match, with the Huskies signing post-match autographs as the UW men warm up.
The match will be available for streaming through Pac-12 Insider. Links to live coverage can be found above and on the schedule page at GoHuskies.com.
SCOUTING SAN DIEGO
Louise Lieberman is in her seventh season as the head coach at San Diego. Previously, she served as a long-time assistant at UCLA, helping the Bruins capture the 2013 NCAA Championship. Lieberman has been called in as an assistant coach on the U23 Women's National Team.
Like the Huskies, San Diego sits at 1-1-1 on the season, having won their most recent affair, a 1-0 victory at SeattleU.
Junior midfielder Lexi Zandonella-Arasa scored the winning goal in Thursday's win in Capitol Hill, the lone goal of the season for the Toreros. Junior defender Ashley Wright setup the score.
Sophomore Sophine Kevorkian has started all three matches between the posts for the Toreros, garnering a 1.33 goals against average and a .750 save percentage. After allowing four goals in USD's season-opening loss to Stanford, Kevorkian has posted back-to-back clean sheets.
SERIES HISTORY
Washington and San Diego have met up five times previously, the the Huskies holding a slim 3-2 advantage all-time. The two sides haven't squared off since 2004, a 2-1 Toreros victory over the then-No. 4 ranked Dawgs in San Diego. In the only previous matchup in Seattle, Washington earned a 3-1 win in 1994.
LAST MEETING (10/1/04)
SEATTLE - Lee Klopschinski scored the go-ahead goal 36 seconds into the second half and San Diego held on to deal the fourth-ranked Washington women's soccer team its first defeat, 2-1 at Torero Stadium.
The Huskies had their longest season-opening winning streak stopped at eight games. They were one of only three unbeaten, un-tied teams in the nation entering Friday's contest.
Reserve Amy Epsten opened the scoring in the 29th minute, finding the goal just three minutes after entering the contest for San Diego. She headed in the ball from close range off a cross from Marie-Claude Henry.
UW senior Nikki Gamble evened the score less than 10 minutes later. She served a ball into the box that glanced off a defender and into the net at 37:33. That was the fourth goal of the season for Gamble who is tied for the team lead with 11 total points.
Klopschinski's game-winner came at 45:36. Her point-blank shot was deflected by UW sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Rasmussen, but not enough to prevent it from trickling into the goal.
Just two of Washington's seven shots were on frame, including Gamble's goal. The other was a near-miss as senior Tina Frimpong had the potential equalizer carom off the crossbar in the 80th minute.
"I'D LIKE TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT"
All four of Washington's four goals this season have been notched by first-time scorers. Radisson Banks, Jadyn Holdenried and Chloe Seelhoff all opened their scoring accounts in UW's 3-1 win at Idaho, while Lucy Newlin scored her first career goal Thursday against No. 13 Santa Clara.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Just three matches into their college careers, the Huskies' freshman class has already made a major impact on the pitch. Eight true freshmen have seen action for the Dawgs, five of which have cracked the starting XI multiple times. The Dawgs started five true freshmen Thursday against Santa Clara in Radisson Banks, Jadyn Holdenried, Maya Loudd, Enora Matté and Anna Menti.
MONTLAKE MAGIC
Washington will look to turn Husky Soccer Stadium into a fortress once again in 2023. The Dawgs were nearly unbeatable on their home pitch a season ago, posting a 7-1-1 record on Montlake.
FRESH FACES
With 10 of 11 primary starters gone from the 2022 roster, Washington will be relying on a bevy of newcomers and returners who played in a reserve role a season ago to replace the production lost.
Gone from the 2022 roster are 27-of-37 goals (73.0%), 31-of-38 assists (81.6%), 85-of-112 points (75.9%), 252-of-312 shots (80.8%) and 43-of-46 saves (93.5%).
Of the 28 players on the Huskies' roster, just seven are upperclassmen. U Dub boasts 11 freshmen and 10 sophomores on its squad list. Outside of the 17 matches started by Kalea Eichenberger at Cal State Bakersfield in 2022, those 21 underclassmen have recorded just 27 collegiate starts collectively.
NEW SCHOOL, WHO DIS?
Washington added three transfers to its roster for the 2023 season in forwards Kalea Eichenberger and Ioanna Papatheodorou and goalkeeper Megan Nail.
Eichenberger spent her freshman season at Cal State Bakersfield, earning All-Big West Freshman Team honors. The California native appeared in 20 matches for the Roadrunners, starting the final 17 of the 2022 season. She bagged a team-high four goals, finishing the season with 10 points to pace the UCSB. She was named Big West Player of the Week after securing a brace against Cal Poly.
Papatheodorou joined Washington in the spring after starring for two seasons at UMass Lowell, earning back-to-back First Team All-America East nods. A Greece international, Papatheodorou was named the 2021 America East Striker of the Year after leading UMass Lowell with 10 goals. She followed up in 2022 with another 10-goal campaign, ranking second on the America East.
Nail is a graduate transfer from San Francisco, where she played for four seasons for the Dons, securing the starting role between the posts in 2022. Making the USF Starting XI 14 times on the year, she garnered a 1.23 goals against average. The veteran shot stopper tallied 64 saves for a .790 save percentage, logging five clean sheets.
WARRIOR MENTALITY
In the 33rd minute of the Huskies' opening match against Houston, Kolo Suliafu was forced to be subbed off following a head-to-head collision with a Cougar player. Despite needing 10 stitches to mend the wound, Suliafu returned for the final 20 minutes of the match and started UW's next contest at Idaho, playing 82 minutes and dishing out an assist.
ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS
Washington had two representatives at the 2022 rendition of the prestigious High School All-American game as true freshmen Maya Loudd and Samiah Shell were both selected to the West Team.
YOU CAN FIND ME IN DA CLUB
Among Washington's 15 newcomers for the 2023 season is sophomore Avery Nguyen, who was offered a roster spot during preseason training after a trial. A native of the Kansas City metro area and a former standout for Olathe Northwest High School and Sporting Blue Valley, Nguyen led the UW club team in scoring as a college freshman in 2022.
COWART MAKES HISTORY
This summer, former Husky Jessika Cowart became the sixth former Dawg to make a World Cup roster, joining Hope Solo, Tina Frimpong, Veronica Perez, Mireya Grey and Dominique Bond-Flasza. Representing her mother's home nation, Cowart suited up for the Philippines National Team after helping the Philippines lift the 2022 AFF Cup. One of the great storylines of the tournament, Cowart started all three matches of the group stage as the Philippines made its first-ever World Cup appearance.
FOR DAWGS AND COUNTRY
This summer, two Huskies represented their home country and donned their nation's badge as part of their respective national teams. Ioanna Papatheodorou was called into the Greece National Team in July for a pair of friendlies against Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Budapest, Hungary.
Meanwhile, Husky freshman Enora Matté made the squad list for Belgium's Under-19 team for the 2023 UEFA U19 Championship, receiving one cap during the group stage.
Another freshman on the Dawg's roster, Daniella Alali was called into the Nigeria U17 Women's National Team Camp ahead of the 2022 FIFA U17 Women's World Cup, but did not attend the camp due to injury.
PROS MADE HERE
Over the past two seasons, Washington has developed 11 different players who have gone on to play at the professional ranks. Following the 2021 campaign, Olivia Van der Jagt was selected in the 3rd round of the NWSL Draft by OL Reign, while Ameera Hussen signed with Icelandic club IBV. Since finishing her Husky career, Jessika Cowart has gone on to ink deals with Çaykur Rizespor (Turkey), Spartak Subotica (Serbia) and IFK Kalmar (Sweden).
Eight former Huskies from the 2022 roster are now playing at the professional level. Shae Holmes was drafted in the second round of the NWSL Draft by OL Reign, followed in the fourth round by Summer Yates, who was selected by the Orlando Pride. Olivia Sekany and McKenzie Weinert have also signed NWSL contracts with Racing Louisville and OL Reign, respectively.
Overseas, Vanessa Millsaps signed with Liga MX club Pachuca. Cori Sullivan also signed a Liga MX deal with Cruz Azul and has since signed with Glasgow City in Scotland. Evelina Pettersson returned to her native Sweden to play for Trelleborgs FF, while Kala McDaniel signed with Racing Power FC in Portugal.
RAPHA'S RETURN
A former standout player and coach for Washington's men's soccer team, Raphael Cox returned to Montlake ahead of the 2023 as an assistant coach following one season as a men's team assistant at San Diego State.
Cox spent three seasons on Jamie Clark's staff at Washington as volunteer assistant coach from 2019-21. As a player, Cox a two-time All-Pac-12 selection at UW where he played from 2006-2008. After graduating, Cox was selected in the fourth round of the MLS SuperDraft by Real Salt Lake, where he was part of the MLS Cup Champion squad in 2009.
B1G THINGS COMING
The 2023 season will be Washington's last in the Pac-12 Conference, with the university announcing in August that it has accepted an invitation to the Big Ten Conference, beginning play in the conference in Fall 2024.
UW was one of the four founding members of what started in December of 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference, which eventually grew to become the Pac-12.
HUSKIES PICKED SEVENTH IN PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL
The Pac-12 announced the 2023 Preseason Coaches' Poll prior to the season, with Washington predicted to match its 2022 finish and place seventh in the league table as voted on by the conference's 12 head coaches. The Huskies received the same number of votes as both Arizona State and Colorado.
2022 PAC-12 PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
Team
1. UCLA (9)
2. Stanford (3)
3. USC
4. Cal
5. Washington State
6. Arizona
T7. Washington
T7. Arizona State
T7. Colorado
10. Utah
11. Oregon
12. Oregon State
FOLLOW THE DAWGS!
Fans can keep up with all the goings on around the Washington women's soccer program by following the Huskies on the team's various social media platforms. You can find the Dawgs on X at @UW_WSoccer, on Instagram at @uw_wsoccer or on Facebook by searching "Washington Women's Soccer". Fans can also follow the Huskies through the women's soccer page at GoHuskies.com.
Much like Thursday, it'll be a doubleheader on Montlake as the Husky men will face USD following the UW women's match. First kick for that match is set for 4 p.m.
Sunday's contest will be the Dawgs' Camper Appreciation Match, with the Huskies signing post-match autographs as the UW men warm up.
The match will be available for streaming through Pac-12 Insider. Links to live coverage can be found above and on the schedule page at GoHuskies.com.
SCOUTING SAN DIEGO
Louise Lieberman is in her seventh season as the head coach at San Diego. Previously, she served as a long-time assistant at UCLA, helping the Bruins capture the 2013 NCAA Championship. Lieberman has been called in as an assistant coach on the U23 Women's National Team.
Like the Huskies, San Diego sits at 1-1-1 on the season, having won their most recent affair, a 1-0 victory at SeattleU.
Junior midfielder Lexi Zandonella-Arasa scored the winning goal in Thursday's win in Capitol Hill, the lone goal of the season for the Toreros. Junior defender Ashley Wright setup the score.
Sophomore Sophine Kevorkian has started all three matches between the posts for the Toreros, garnering a 1.33 goals against average and a .750 save percentage. After allowing four goals in USD's season-opening loss to Stanford, Kevorkian has posted back-to-back clean sheets.
SERIES HISTORY
Washington and San Diego have met up five times previously, the the Huskies holding a slim 3-2 advantage all-time. The two sides haven't squared off since 2004, a 2-1 Toreros victory over the then-No. 4 ranked Dawgs in San Diego. In the only previous matchup in Seattle, Washington earned a 3-1 win in 1994.
LAST MEETING (10/1/04)
SEATTLE - Lee Klopschinski scored the go-ahead goal 36 seconds into the second half and San Diego held on to deal the fourth-ranked Washington women's soccer team its first defeat, 2-1 at Torero Stadium.
The Huskies had their longest season-opening winning streak stopped at eight games. They were one of only three unbeaten, un-tied teams in the nation entering Friday's contest.
Reserve Amy Epsten opened the scoring in the 29th minute, finding the goal just three minutes after entering the contest for San Diego. She headed in the ball from close range off a cross from Marie-Claude Henry.
UW senior Nikki Gamble evened the score less than 10 minutes later. She served a ball into the box that glanced off a defender and into the net at 37:33. That was the fourth goal of the season for Gamble who is tied for the team lead with 11 total points.
Klopschinski's game-winner came at 45:36. Her point-blank shot was deflected by UW sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Rasmussen, but not enough to prevent it from trickling into the goal.
Just two of Washington's seven shots were on frame, including Gamble's goal. The other was a near-miss as senior Tina Frimpong had the potential equalizer carom off the crossbar in the 80th minute.
"I'D LIKE TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT"
All four of Washington's four goals this season have been notched by first-time scorers. Radisson Banks, Jadyn Holdenried and Chloe Seelhoff all opened their scoring accounts in UW's 3-1 win at Idaho, while Lucy Newlin scored her first career goal Thursday against No. 13 Santa Clara.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Just three matches into their college careers, the Huskies' freshman class has already made a major impact on the pitch. Eight true freshmen have seen action for the Dawgs, five of which have cracked the starting XI multiple times. The Dawgs started five true freshmen Thursday against Santa Clara in Radisson Banks, Jadyn Holdenried, Maya Loudd, Enora Matté and Anna Menti.
MONTLAKE MAGIC
Washington will look to turn Husky Soccer Stadium into a fortress once again in 2023. The Dawgs were nearly unbeatable on their home pitch a season ago, posting a 7-1-1 record on Montlake.
FRESH FACES
With 10 of 11 primary starters gone from the 2022 roster, Washington will be relying on a bevy of newcomers and returners who played in a reserve role a season ago to replace the production lost.
Gone from the 2022 roster are 27-of-37 goals (73.0%), 31-of-38 assists (81.6%), 85-of-112 points (75.9%), 252-of-312 shots (80.8%) and 43-of-46 saves (93.5%).
Of the 28 players on the Huskies' roster, just seven are upperclassmen. U Dub boasts 11 freshmen and 10 sophomores on its squad list. Outside of the 17 matches started by Kalea Eichenberger at Cal State Bakersfield in 2022, those 21 underclassmen have recorded just 27 collegiate starts collectively.
NEW SCHOOL, WHO DIS?
Washington added three transfers to its roster for the 2023 season in forwards Kalea Eichenberger and Ioanna Papatheodorou and goalkeeper Megan Nail.
Eichenberger spent her freshman season at Cal State Bakersfield, earning All-Big West Freshman Team honors. The California native appeared in 20 matches for the Roadrunners, starting the final 17 of the 2022 season. She bagged a team-high four goals, finishing the season with 10 points to pace the UCSB. She was named Big West Player of the Week after securing a brace against Cal Poly.
Papatheodorou joined Washington in the spring after starring for two seasons at UMass Lowell, earning back-to-back First Team All-America East nods. A Greece international, Papatheodorou was named the 2021 America East Striker of the Year after leading UMass Lowell with 10 goals. She followed up in 2022 with another 10-goal campaign, ranking second on the America East.
Nail is a graduate transfer from San Francisco, where she played for four seasons for the Dons, securing the starting role between the posts in 2022. Making the USF Starting XI 14 times on the year, she garnered a 1.23 goals against average. The veteran shot stopper tallied 64 saves for a .790 save percentage, logging five clean sheets.
WARRIOR MENTALITY
In the 33rd minute of the Huskies' opening match against Houston, Kolo Suliafu was forced to be subbed off following a head-to-head collision with a Cougar player. Despite needing 10 stitches to mend the wound, Suliafu returned for the final 20 minutes of the match and started UW's next contest at Idaho, playing 82 minutes and dishing out an assist.
ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS
Washington had two representatives at the 2022 rendition of the prestigious High School All-American game as true freshmen Maya Loudd and Samiah Shell were both selected to the West Team.
YOU CAN FIND ME IN DA CLUB
Among Washington's 15 newcomers for the 2023 season is sophomore Avery Nguyen, who was offered a roster spot during preseason training after a trial. A native of the Kansas City metro area and a former standout for Olathe Northwest High School and Sporting Blue Valley, Nguyen led the UW club team in scoring as a college freshman in 2022.
COWART MAKES HISTORY
This summer, former Husky Jessika Cowart became the sixth former Dawg to make a World Cup roster, joining Hope Solo, Tina Frimpong, Veronica Perez, Mireya Grey and Dominique Bond-Flasza. Representing her mother's home nation, Cowart suited up for the Philippines National Team after helping the Philippines lift the 2022 AFF Cup. One of the great storylines of the tournament, Cowart started all three matches of the group stage as the Philippines made its first-ever World Cup appearance.
FOR DAWGS AND COUNTRY
This summer, two Huskies represented their home country and donned their nation's badge as part of their respective national teams. Ioanna Papatheodorou was called into the Greece National Team in July for a pair of friendlies against Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Budapest, Hungary.
Meanwhile, Husky freshman Enora Matté made the squad list for Belgium's Under-19 team for the 2023 UEFA U19 Championship, receiving one cap during the group stage.
Another freshman on the Dawg's roster, Daniella Alali was called into the Nigeria U17 Women's National Team Camp ahead of the 2022 FIFA U17 Women's World Cup, but did not attend the camp due to injury.
PROS MADE HERE
Over the past two seasons, Washington has developed 11 different players who have gone on to play at the professional ranks. Following the 2021 campaign, Olivia Van der Jagt was selected in the 3rd round of the NWSL Draft by OL Reign, while Ameera Hussen signed with Icelandic club IBV. Since finishing her Husky career, Jessika Cowart has gone on to ink deals with Çaykur Rizespor (Turkey), Spartak Subotica (Serbia) and IFK Kalmar (Sweden).
Eight former Huskies from the 2022 roster are now playing at the professional level. Shae Holmes was drafted in the second round of the NWSL Draft by OL Reign, followed in the fourth round by Summer Yates, who was selected by the Orlando Pride. Olivia Sekany and McKenzie Weinert have also signed NWSL contracts with Racing Louisville and OL Reign, respectively.
Overseas, Vanessa Millsaps signed with Liga MX club Pachuca. Cori Sullivan also signed a Liga MX deal with Cruz Azul and has since signed with Glasgow City in Scotland. Evelina Pettersson returned to her native Sweden to play for Trelleborgs FF, while Kala McDaniel signed with Racing Power FC in Portugal.
RAPHA'S RETURN
A former standout player and coach for Washington's men's soccer team, Raphael Cox returned to Montlake ahead of the 2023 as an assistant coach following one season as a men's team assistant at San Diego State.
Cox spent three seasons on Jamie Clark's staff at Washington as volunteer assistant coach from 2019-21. As a player, Cox a two-time All-Pac-12 selection at UW where he played from 2006-2008. After graduating, Cox was selected in the fourth round of the MLS SuperDraft by Real Salt Lake, where he was part of the MLS Cup Champion squad in 2009.
B1G THINGS COMING
The 2023 season will be Washington's last in the Pac-12 Conference, with the university announcing in August that it has accepted an invitation to the Big Ten Conference, beginning play in the conference in Fall 2024.
UW was one of the four founding members of what started in December of 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference, which eventually grew to become the Pac-12.
HUSKIES PICKED SEVENTH IN PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL
The Pac-12 announced the 2023 Preseason Coaches' Poll prior to the season, with Washington predicted to match its 2022 finish and place seventh in the league table as voted on by the conference's 12 head coaches. The Huskies received the same number of votes as both Arizona State and Colorado.
2022 PAC-12 PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
Team
1. UCLA (9)
2. Stanford (3)
3. USC
4. Cal
5. Washington State
6. Arizona
T7. Washington
T7. Arizona State
T7. Colorado
10. Utah
11. Oregon
12. Oregon State
FOLLOW THE DAWGS!
Fans can keep up with all the goings on around the Washington women's soccer program by following the Huskies on the team's various social media platforms. You can find the Dawgs on X at @UW_WSoccer, on Instagram at @uw_wsoccer or on Facebook by searching "Washington Women's Soccer". Fans can also follow the Huskies through the women's soccer page at GoHuskies.com.
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