The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, August 31
Austin, TX
7 PM
University of Texas
vs
UTRGV
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AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas women's soccer program will begin the back half of its seven-match home stand when the Longhorns host the UTRGV Vaqueros at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31.
Thursday night's match can be viewed on the Longhorn Network or the ESPN app with a television subscription. Glenn Davis and Jessica Stamp will serve as the broadcast's play-by-play and analyst, respectively.
KICKING OFF
- Texas junior midfielder Lexi Missimo will enter Thursday night's match just one assist shy of becoming the first student-athlete in program history to be credited with at least one assist in five straight matches.
- Missimo is currently tied with three other former student-athletes with an assist in four consecutive matches:
- Lexi Missimo, August 17 – August 27, 2023; Oct. 20 – Oct. 30, 2022
- Alexa Adams, Oct. 16 – Oct. 30, 2015
- Hannah Higgins, Aug. 22 – Sept. 2, 2011
- Kylee Wosnuck, Aug. 31 to Sept. 10, 2000
- Missimo is currently tied with three other former student-athletes with an assist in four consecutive matches:
- With seven more points, Texas junior forward Trinity Byars will become just the fifth active Division I women's soccer student-athlete to surpass 100 career points.
- Anna Podojil, Arkansas (120)
- Maya Hansen, South Dakota State (107)
- Emma Hawkins, Oklahoma (107)
- Amanda West, Pittsburgh (102)
- Trinity Byars, Texas (93)
- Lexi Missimo's 36 career assists are the second most among active Division I women's soccer student-athletes behind Arizona State's Suzuka Yosue (38).
- Rice's Grace Collins (30) and Arkansas' Anna Podojil (30) join Missimo and Yosue as the only active Division I women's soccer student-athletes with 30-or-more career assists.
- Texas will enter Thursday evening's match against UTRGV as the only Division I women's soccer program with multiple active student-athletes ranked in the top five in career points per game.
- Trinity Byars, Texas, 1.98
- Rebecca Cooke, Penn St., 1.90
- Amanda West, Pittsburgh, 1.85
- Lexi Missimo, Texas, 1.78
- Croix Bethune, Georgia, 1.63
- In addition to being ranked among the top five in career points per game, Trinity Byars and Lexi Missimo are also ranked among the top five in career assists per game, making Texas the only Division I women's soccer program to have multiple student-athletes ranked among the top five in career assists per game.
- Lexi Missimo, Texas, 0.78
- Suzuka Yosue, Arizona State, 0.50
- Croix Bethune, Georgia, 0.50
- Trinity Byars, Texas, 0.49
- Teresa Deda, Bucknell, 0.49
- Trinity Byars is one of just three active Division I women's soccer student-athletes to have scored 30-or-more career goals and credited with 20-more career assists.
- Anna Podojil, Arkansas: 45 goals, 30 assists
- Amanada West, Pittsburgh: 41 goals, 20 assists
- Trinity Byars, Texas: 35 goals, 23 assists
- Byars, a junior, is the lone non-senior student-athlete on said list.
- Thursday night's matchup will mark the fifth all-time meeting between the Texas and UTRGV women's soccer programs and first since Sept. 11, 2022.
- The Longhorns are 4-0-0 all time against the Vaqueros with a 15-to-1 goals for-goals against difference.
- UTRGV has not scored against Texas since Sept. 14, 2018, a span of 1,812 days and 198:02 game minutes after scoring at 71:57 in the Longhorns' 2-1 win during the 2018 campaign.
- The Longhorns are 4-0-0 all time against the Vaqueros with a 15-to-1 goals for-goals against difference.
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