Sunday, October 27
Seattle, WA
1:00 PM
University of Washington
vs
Oregon
Dawgs Celebrate Senior Day, Battle Ducks Sunday Afternoon
October 26, 2024 | Women's Soccer
SEATTLE – Looking to lock up a first round bye in next week's Big Ten Tournament, Washington closes out the regular season on its home field, taking on rival Oregon at 1 p.m. PT at Husky Soccer Stadium.
It will be Senior Day on Montlake, with Washington celebrating the careers of Jace Holmes, Olivia Juarez and Ioanna Papatheodorou prior to kickoff.
The match will be available for streaming on B1G+, with live stats available at HuskyStats.com.
SCOUTING OREGON
Graeme Abel is in his fifth season at the helm of the Oregon women's soccer program. Abel came to Eugene after serving as an assistant for the United States Women's National Team, sitting on the bench for a pair of FIFA World Cup Champion squads. Before joining the USWNT, Abel was a collegiate assistant coach for eight seasons.
The Ducks enter Sunday's regular season finale with a 5-10-2 overall record, owning five Big Ten points with a 1-7-2 conference record. Oregon dropped a pair of road matches last week, falling 3-0 to Nebraska and 4-0 to No. 14 Iowa.
Senior midfielder Haley McWhirter, sophomore forward/midfielder Cameron Bourne and redshirt senior Taylor Bryan are all tied for the Ducks' team lead with three goals in 2024. Oregon has scored just five times in Big Ten play, scored by five different players.
While redshirt sophomore Anna Solomon has made a pair of starts in goal, redshirt junior Maddy Goldberg is back for her second season as Oregon's primary goalkeeper. Goldberg owns a 1.70 goals against average and a .724 save percentage, making 63 saves on the season.
SERIES HISTORY
In 28 all-time meetings between the two sides, Washington leads the all-time series with Oregon at 21-5-2. After the Ducks snapped a six-match winning streak for the Huskies in 2022, Washington rebounded with a 1-0 win in Eugene a season ago. Oregon is making its first trip to Seattle since 2021.
LAST MEETING (10/26/23)
EUGENE, Ore. - Washington left it late Thursday night at Papé Field but finally put away Oregon as Tatum Thomason's 88th minute goal lifted the Huskies to a 1-0 victory.
It was largely one-way traffic throughout the affair as the Huskies spent the majority of the action in the attacking third. Thomason's winner was the 32nd shot of the night for the Huskies, the most attempts in a match for UW since 2018.
The Huskies put their foot to the pedal right from the word go, dictating the pace of play immediately. While the Dawgs put together a number of dangerous chances, they came closest to scoring shortly before the break when Jadyn Holdenried's 27-yard free kick rocked clattered off the crossbar.
Despite the dominant play through the first 45 minutes, there was nothing the separate the two sides heading into the half.
At the resumption of play, it was all Huskies once again. UW would go on to attempt 22 shots at goal. However, the Duck defense held strong, selling out for the block time and time again.
UW thought it had broken through in the 64th minute when Kelsey Branson put the ball in the back of the net. However, the Husky striker was ruled to be offside, chalking off the goal.
As Washington continued to throw everything it had forward, the woodwork once again denied the opener in the 83rd minute on a sumptuous Thomason strike. However, the Arizona native would have the final say just minutes later.
After Ioanna Papatheodorou's blast from the left side of the 18 was parried by Duck keeper Maddy Goldberg, the rebound fell to Thomason's feet in the middle of the box and the sophomore buried it, hitting the ball first time and bulging the net.
TICKETS BOOKED
UW's 2-0 win at Nebraska guaranteed the Huskies a top-10 finish in the Big Ten and secured a bid to the 2024 Big Ten Tournament. With a win on Sunday, UW will secure a top-six seed and a first round bye. The first two rounds of the Big Ten Tournament will be hosted on Minnesota's campus, while the semifinals and championship will be held CITYPARK, home of St. Louis City FC.
GET HER TO THE GREEKS
Washington will be without senior striker Ioanna Papatheodorou for Sunday's match as the Greek international will be wearing her home country's shirt for a pair of European Championship qualifying matches. Papatheodorou and Greece will play Belgium in a two-legged playoff on Oct. 25 and Oct. 29.
It is the second call up of the season for Papatheodorou, who also helped Greece to a pair of Euro qualifier wins, making the starting XI for Greece's 6-0 win over Andorra.
BRICK-BY-BRICK
Washington has proven to be one of the toughest defenses to crack in 2024, ranking 12th in the nation with a 0.563 team goals-against-average and sixth nationally with a 0.875 team save percentage. UW has posted eight clean sheets, eclipsing its total of six from 2023. Along with UCLA, Washington is one of two Big Ten teams to not allow multiple goals in a single conference match.
MAMA MIA
Junior Mia Hamant has been a breakout star for Washington in 2024, ranking sixth in the nation and first in the Big Ten with an .881 save percentage as well as 20th in the NCAA and third in the B1G in goals-against-average at 0.560. Hamant has garnered six of UW's eight clean sheets this season.
SPARTY PARTY
Washington's victory over No. 5 Michigan State on Sunday was UW's first win over a top-5 ranked team since 2017, when the Huskies defeated No. 2 Florida 1-0 at Husky Soccer Stadium.
ROOKIE RECOGNITION
Washington's Andrea Leyva, a midfielder out of Las Vegas, came in at No. 56 in TopDrawerSoccer's midseason Top-100 Freshman rankings. Leyva has appeared in all 15 matches for the Huskies, cracking the Starting XI 10 times.
YES INDEED I CAN RUN IT, RUN IT
While Washington made its living largely off of set piece opportunities in 2023, the vast majority of the Huskies' 21 goals in 2024 have come through build-up play. The Huskies have scored 15 times this season from the run of play, compared to six goals coming off of set pieces.
STARTING XI FIXTURE
Since making seven-straight starts to end her freshman campaign, junior Kelsey Branson has not failed to crack the Huskies' starting XI a single time, a streak spanning 42 consecutive matches. Branson is the only Husky to start all 19 matches in 2023 and start the first 16 fixtures of 2024.
EMPTYING THE TANK
Kolo Suliafu has not come off the pitch in any of the last 21 matches for Washington, playing 1,890 straight minutes for the Huskies. Suliafu played the full 90 minutes in 13 of 18 matches played in 2023.
GANG'S ALL BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its roster from the 2023 roster, standing as the only team in the Big Ten to return its entire starting XI with 11 returners with 10 or more starts in 2023.
What's more, the bulk of the Huskies firepower is back, with Washington returning the vast majority of its goals (26/31, 83.9%), assists (31/33, 93.9%), points (83/95, 87.4%) shots (215/246, 87.4%), shots on goal (90/108, 83.3%) and game-winning goals (9/9, 100%) from a season ago.
Additionally, with 3-of-4 goalkeepers back from the 2023 roster, the Dawgs return practically all of its goalkeeper minutes (1605:29/1710:00, 93.9%) and saves (62/64, 96.9%).
B1G PAPI
Leading Washington to a six-point weekend with wins over Michigan and No. 5 Michigan State, senior striker Ioanna Papatheodorou was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. The Greek international bagged four goals on the week, including both match winners. Papatheodorou both scored the equalizing goal and gave Washington the lead in Thursday's 3-1 victory over the Wolverines, then doubled down with a pair of long range free kick strikes, the second with just over five minutes left on the clock, to lift the Huskies 2-1 over the Spartans on Sunday.
Papatheodorou is Washington's first-ever Big Ten Player of the Week honoree and the first Husky to earn conference player of the week honors since Kelsey Branson and Olivia Juarez were named the Pac-12 Offensive Player and Goalkeeper of the Week for week 9 of 2023 after Washington's 1-1 draw at No. 2 Stanford.
The senior was also named to the TopDrawerSoccer Team of the week and reeled in NCAA Player of the Week laurels.
PAYING (OFF) THE PENALTY
Ioanna Papatheodorou is about as sure of a thing from the penalty spot as there is in college soccer. The senior has converted seven of the eight spot kicks taken in her career, including each of the last five. Papatheodorou has been called to take a penalty exactly twice in all four of her collegiate seasons.
A B1G NEW ERA
Washington enters a new era in 2024 as a member of the prestigious Big Ten Conference. The move means not only new destinations but new challenges for the Huskies as well, with the Big Ten boasting nine teams that earned a bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament and seven schools ranked in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll.
Washington, a founding member of what eventually became the Pac-12 Conference, began play in what was then known as the Pac-10 during the conference's first season supporting women's soccer in 1995. UW launched its women's soccer program in 1991.
CONSISTENCY IS KEY
For the first time since 2018, Washington returns every member of its coaching staff, retaining assistant coaches Cole Schmit, Raphael Cox and Kary Whitney to Nicole Van Dyke's staff.
SMART COOKIES
For the ninth straight season, Washington has received the United Soccer Coaches Academic Award after earning a 3.67 team GPA.
KEEP AN EYE OUT
Prior to the season, the Big Ten Conference announced its Players to Watch List, with a trio of Husky juniors making the cut in midfielder's Kelsey Branson and Tatum Thomason and defender Kolo Suliafu.
Thomason led the Dawgs with six goals in 2023, scoring three times in the final three matches of the season. Thomason came up in the clutch all season long for the Huskies, bagging four of UW's nine match-winning goals for the season.
Following up on a breakout freshman campaign, Branson doubled up with another phenomenal season in 2023, scoring four goals and chipping in three assists. The San Diego native earned her second career Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week after leading UW to a historic road point at No. 2 Stanford.
With a combination of speed, toughness and defensive awareness, Suliafu has served as a backline anchor for the Huskies since stepping on campus in 2022. The Ontario, California, native has started 40 matches over her first two-plus seasons, leading the Huskies to 13 clean sheets. Also making an impact on offense, Suliafu has contributed four assists in her career.
YOU CAN FIND ME IN DA CLUB
One of the more unique paths to the Husky roster comes from junior Avery Nguyen, who was offered a roster spot prior to the start of the 2023 season after a trial during preseason training. 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.
Nguyen played a significant role for the Dawgs during the 2023 season, appearing in 11 matches and making a pair of starts.
HUSKIES PICKED 13TH IN BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
The Big Ten Conference announced the 2024 Preseason Coaches' Poll prior to the season, with Washington predicted to finish 13th in its new league table as voted on by the conference's 18 head coaches.
2024 BIG TEN PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
1. UCLA
2. Penn State
3. Michigan State
4. Nebraska
5. USC
6. Wisconsin
7. Rutgers
8. Iowa
9. Ohio State
10. Indiana
11. Michigan
12. Northwestern
13. Washington
14. Minnesota
15. Illinois
16. Purdue
17. Maryland
18. Oregon
WATCH THE DAWGS
Aside from Washington's matchups with USC and Iowa, which will be featured on the Big Ten Network, all UW home matches and Big Ten road matches will be available for streaming through B1G+. The live streams require a subscription, priced at $89.99 for one year or $12.99 per month. The B1G+ subscription allows you access to all non-televised Big Ten events, in addition to all non-televised Washington events throughout the year.
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.
It will be Senior Day on Montlake, with Washington celebrating the careers of Jace Holmes, Olivia Juarez and Ioanna Papatheodorou prior to kickoff.
The match will be available for streaming on B1G+, with live stats available at HuskyStats.com.
SCOUTING OREGON
Graeme Abel is in his fifth season at the helm of the Oregon women's soccer program. Abel came to Eugene after serving as an assistant for the United States Women's National Team, sitting on the bench for a pair of FIFA World Cup Champion squads. Before joining the USWNT, Abel was a collegiate assistant coach for eight seasons.
The Ducks enter Sunday's regular season finale with a 5-10-2 overall record, owning five Big Ten points with a 1-7-2 conference record. Oregon dropped a pair of road matches last week, falling 3-0 to Nebraska and 4-0 to No. 14 Iowa.
Senior midfielder Haley McWhirter, sophomore forward/midfielder Cameron Bourne and redshirt senior Taylor Bryan are all tied for the Ducks' team lead with three goals in 2024. Oregon has scored just five times in Big Ten play, scored by five different players.
While redshirt sophomore Anna Solomon has made a pair of starts in goal, redshirt junior Maddy Goldberg is back for her second season as Oregon's primary goalkeeper. Goldberg owns a 1.70 goals against average and a .724 save percentage, making 63 saves on the season.
SERIES HISTORY
In 28 all-time meetings between the two sides, Washington leads the all-time series with Oregon at 21-5-2. After the Ducks snapped a six-match winning streak for the Huskies in 2022, Washington rebounded with a 1-0 win in Eugene a season ago. Oregon is making its first trip to Seattle since 2021.
LAST MEETING (10/26/23)
EUGENE, Ore. - Washington left it late Thursday night at Papé Field but finally put away Oregon as Tatum Thomason's 88th minute goal lifted the Huskies to a 1-0 victory.
It was largely one-way traffic throughout the affair as the Huskies spent the majority of the action in the attacking third. Thomason's winner was the 32nd shot of the night for the Huskies, the most attempts in a match for UW since 2018.
The Huskies put their foot to the pedal right from the word go, dictating the pace of play immediately. While the Dawgs put together a number of dangerous chances, they came closest to scoring shortly before the break when Jadyn Holdenried's 27-yard free kick rocked clattered off the crossbar.
Despite the dominant play through the first 45 minutes, there was nothing the separate the two sides heading into the half.
At the resumption of play, it was all Huskies once again. UW would go on to attempt 22 shots at goal. However, the Duck defense held strong, selling out for the block time and time again.
UW thought it had broken through in the 64th minute when Kelsey Branson put the ball in the back of the net. However, the Husky striker was ruled to be offside, chalking off the goal.
As Washington continued to throw everything it had forward, the woodwork once again denied the opener in the 83rd minute on a sumptuous Thomason strike. However, the Arizona native would have the final say just minutes later.
After Ioanna Papatheodorou's blast from the left side of the 18 was parried by Duck keeper Maddy Goldberg, the rebound fell to Thomason's feet in the middle of the box and the sophomore buried it, hitting the ball first time and bulging the net.
TICKETS BOOKED
UW's 2-0 win at Nebraska guaranteed the Huskies a top-10 finish in the Big Ten and secured a bid to the 2024 Big Ten Tournament. With a win on Sunday, UW will secure a top-six seed and a first round bye. The first two rounds of the Big Ten Tournament will be hosted on Minnesota's campus, while the semifinals and championship will be held CITYPARK, home of St. Louis City FC.
GET HER TO THE GREEKS
Washington will be without senior striker Ioanna Papatheodorou for Sunday's match as the Greek international will be wearing her home country's shirt for a pair of European Championship qualifying matches. Papatheodorou and Greece will play Belgium in a two-legged playoff on Oct. 25 and Oct. 29.
It is the second call up of the season for Papatheodorou, who also helped Greece to a pair of Euro qualifier wins, making the starting XI for Greece's 6-0 win over Andorra.
BRICK-BY-BRICK
Washington has proven to be one of the toughest defenses to crack in 2024, ranking 12th in the nation with a 0.563 team goals-against-average and sixth nationally with a 0.875 team save percentage. UW has posted eight clean sheets, eclipsing its total of six from 2023. Along with UCLA, Washington is one of two Big Ten teams to not allow multiple goals in a single conference match.
MAMA MIA
Junior Mia Hamant has been a breakout star for Washington in 2024, ranking sixth in the nation and first in the Big Ten with an .881 save percentage as well as 20th in the NCAA and third in the B1G in goals-against-average at 0.560. Hamant has garnered six of UW's eight clean sheets this season.
SPARTY PARTY
Washington's victory over No. 5 Michigan State on Sunday was UW's first win over a top-5 ranked team since 2017, when the Huskies defeated No. 2 Florida 1-0 at Husky Soccer Stadium.
ROOKIE RECOGNITION
Washington's Andrea Leyva, a midfielder out of Las Vegas, came in at No. 56 in TopDrawerSoccer's midseason Top-100 Freshman rankings. Leyva has appeared in all 15 matches for the Huskies, cracking the Starting XI 10 times.
YES INDEED I CAN RUN IT, RUN IT
While Washington made its living largely off of set piece opportunities in 2023, the vast majority of the Huskies' 21 goals in 2024 have come through build-up play. The Huskies have scored 15 times this season from the run of play, compared to six goals coming off of set pieces.
STARTING XI FIXTURE
Since making seven-straight starts to end her freshman campaign, junior Kelsey Branson has not failed to crack the Huskies' starting XI a single time, a streak spanning 42 consecutive matches. Branson is the only Husky to start all 19 matches in 2023 and start the first 16 fixtures of 2024.
EMPTYING THE TANK
Kolo Suliafu has not come off the pitch in any of the last 21 matches for Washington, playing 1,890 straight minutes for the Huskies. Suliafu played the full 90 minutes in 13 of 18 matches played in 2023.
GANG'S ALL BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its roster from the 2023 roster, standing as the only team in the Big Ten to return its entire starting XI with 11 returners with 10 or more starts in 2023.
What's more, the bulk of the Huskies firepower is back, with Washington returning the vast majority of its goals (26/31, 83.9%), assists (31/33, 93.9%), points (83/95, 87.4%) shots (215/246, 87.4%), shots on goal (90/108, 83.3%) and game-winning goals (9/9, 100%) from a season ago.
Additionally, with 3-of-4 goalkeepers back from the 2023 roster, the Dawgs return practically all of its goalkeeper minutes (1605:29/1710:00, 93.9%) and saves (62/64, 96.9%).
B1G PAPI
Leading Washington to a six-point weekend with wins over Michigan and No. 5 Michigan State, senior striker Ioanna Papatheodorou was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. The Greek international bagged four goals on the week, including both match winners. Papatheodorou both scored the equalizing goal and gave Washington the lead in Thursday's 3-1 victory over the Wolverines, then doubled down with a pair of long range free kick strikes, the second with just over five minutes left on the clock, to lift the Huskies 2-1 over the Spartans on Sunday.
Papatheodorou is Washington's first-ever Big Ten Player of the Week honoree and the first Husky to earn conference player of the week honors since Kelsey Branson and Olivia Juarez were named the Pac-12 Offensive Player and Goalkeeper of the Week for week 9 of 2023 after Washington's 1-1 draw at No. 2 Stanford.
The senior was also named to the TopDrawerSoccer Team of the week and reeled in NCAA Player of the Week laurels.
PAYING (OFF) THE PENALTY
Ioanna Papatheodorou is about as sure of a thing from the penalty spot as there is in college soccer. The senior has converted seven of the eight spot kicks taken in her career, including each of the last five. Papatheodorou has been called to take a penalty exactly twice in all four of her collegiate seasons.
A B1G NEW ERA
Washington enters a new era in 2024 as a member of the prestigious Big Ten Conference. The move means not only new destinations but new challenges for the Huskies as well, with the Big Ten boasting nine teams that earned a bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament and seven schools ranked in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll.
Washington, a founding member of what eventually became the Pac-12 Conference, began play in what was then known as the Pac-10 during the conference's first season supporting women's soccer in 1995. UW launched its women's soccer program in 1991.
CONSISTENCY IS KEY
For the first time since 2018, Washington returns every member of its coaching staff, retaining assistant coaches Cole Schmit, Raphael Cox and Kary Whitney to Nicole Van Dyke's staff.
SMART COOKIES
For the ninth straight season, Washington has received the United Soccer Coaches Academic Award after earning a 3.67 team GPA.
KEEP AN EYE OUT
Prior to the season, the Big Ten Conference announced its Players to Watch List, with a trio of Husky juniors making the cut in midfielder's Kelsey Branson and Tatum Thomason and defender Kolo Suliafu.
Thomason led the Dawgs with six goals in 2023, scoring three times in the final three matches of the season. Thomason came up in the clutch all season long for the Huskies, bagging four of UW's nine match-winning goals for the season.
Following up on a breakout freshman campaign, Branson doubled up with another phenomenal season in 2023, scoring four goals and chipping in three assists. The San Diego native earned her second career Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week after leading UW to a historic road point at No. 2 Stanford.
With a combination of speed, toughness and defensive awareness, Suliafu has served as a backline anchor for the Huskies since stepping on campus in 2022. The Ontario, California, native has started 40 matches over her first two-plus seasons, leading the Huskies to 13 clean sheets. Also making an impact on offense, Suliafu has contributed four assists in her career.
YOU CAN FIND ME IN DA CLUB
One of the more unique paths to the Husky roster comes from junior Avery Nguyen, who was offered a roster spot prior to the start of the 2023 season after a trial during preseason training. 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.
Nguyen played a significant role for the Dawgs during the 2023 season, appearing in 11 matches and making a pair of starts.
HUSKIES PICKED 13TH IN BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
The Big Ten Conference announced the 2024 Preseason Coaches' Poll prior to the season, with Washington predicted to finish 13th in its new league table as voted on by the conference's 18 head coaches.
2024 BIG TEN PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
1. UCLA
2. Penn State
3. Michigan State
4. Nebraska
5. USC
6. Wisconsin
7. Rutgers
8. Iowa
9. Ohio State
10. Indiana
11. Michigan
12. Northwestern
13. Washington
14. Minnesota
15. Illinois
16. Purdue
17. Maryland
18. Oregon
WATCH THE DAWGS
Aside from Washington's matchups with USC and Iowa, which will be featured on the Big Ten Network, all UW home matches and Big Ten road matches will be available for streaming through B1G+. The live streams require a subscription, priced at $89.99 for one year or $12.99 per month. The B1G+ subscription allows you access to all non-televised Big Ten events, in addition to all non-televised Washington events throughout the year.
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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