Soccer preview: 2023 Sprouts Farmers Market Big 12 Soccer Championship

ROUND ROCK, Texas – With the 2023 Sprouts Farmers Market Big 12 Soccer Championship set to begin with a pair of first-round matchups on Saturday, Oct. 28, The University of Texas women's soccer program will begin its hunt for a third postseason conference tournament championship on Monday, Oct. 30, when the fourth-seeded Longhorns play the fifth-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers at 11:30 a.m.

Daniel Gillman (play by play) and Jessica Stamp (analyst) will serve as the broadcast team throughout the week-long tournament with every match available to stream on ESPN+.

KICKING OFF

With two more assists throughout the upcoming tournament, Lexi Missimo would become the first Division I women's soccer student-athlete to have a 20-goal, 20-assist season since Stanford's Catarina Macario had 32 goals and 23 assists throughout the 2019 season.
- Additionally, Missimo would become the first women's soccer student-athlete to have a 20-goal, 20-assist season in the Big 12 Conference's history.
- Two more assists would also tie Missimo with Oklahoma State's Nikki Wojtowicz (2001-04) for the Big 12's all-time assist record.
  - Missimo has two career Big 12 Conference Championship matches with multiple assists:
    - 3, vs. Oklahoma (Oct. 31, 2021)
    - 2, vs. Kansas State (Oct. 30, 2022)
With their All-Big 12 First Team selection earlier in the week, Trinity Byars and Lexi Missimo became just the second and third student-athletes in program history to be a three-time All-Big 12 First Team selection.
- The duo joins Stephanie Logterman (2006-08) as the only Longhorn women's soccer student-athletes to accomplish the feat.
  - Byars and Missimo will look to join Kelly Wilson (2001-04) and Kasey Moore (2005-08) as the only four-time All-Big 12 First Team selections next season in 2024.
With Trinity Byars and Lexi Missimo's All-Big 12 First Team selections, The University of Texas becomes the only active women's soccer program in the league with 40-or-more all-conference first team honorees as the Longhorns now have 41.
- Texas A&M has a league-best 46 with Nebraska right behind the Aggies with 45.
- In conjunction with all five of the Longhorns' all-conference selections earlier this week, The University of Texas now has a league-best 118 all-time all-conference selections: 41 first team, 38 second team and 39 all-freshman.
When Trinity Byars scores a goal — or penalty kick — during the Big 12 Conference Championship, Texas is 3-0:
- 69:41; Texas 4-0 over Kansas State (Oct. 30, 2022)
- 57:21, 72:56, 78:21; 5-2 over Oklahoma (Oct. 31, 2021)
  - Byars is the only student-athlete in program history to record a hat trick during the Big 12 Conference Championship.
    - There has never been a Texas women's soccer student-athlete to record a hat trick or haul during the month of November.
- Fourth PK; 0-0 over West Virginia (Nov. 4, 2021)
Texas has an all-time record of 4-2-0 on Oct. 30 and has won the last three consecutive, including a postseason conference tournament match against Kansas State (4-0) last season.
- The Longhorns have not lost on Oct. 30 since the 2009 season, when the Texas A&M Aggies earned a 4-0 result in College Station.
With its next goal, Texas will become the first soccer program to score 60-or-more goals in a single season in the Big 12 Conference since TCU netted 60 in 24 matches throughout the 2021 season.
- The Longhorns, in 18 matches this season, has scored 59, which is already a program single-season record.

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Soccer preview: 2023 Sprouts Farmers Market Big 12 Soccer Championship

Players Mentioned

Trinity Byars

Lexi Missimo