The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 14
Waco, TX
7 PM
University of Texas
at
Baylor
No. 16 Soccer preview: at Baylor
09.13.2023 | Soccer
Texas set to begin Big 12 Conference play with road trip to Waco
AUSTIN, Texas – Now with its eight-match non-conference slate in the rearview mirror, The University of Texas women's soccer program will now begin its march towards a second consecutive Big 12 Conference regular season championship when the Longhorns open conference play at Baylor on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m.
Lincoln Rose (play by play) and Kit McConnico (analyst) will serve as the broadcast talent with the match being available to stream on Big 12 Now and the ESPN app.
KICKING OFF
- Under 12th-year head coach Angela Kelly, the Texas women's soccer program has a 7-2-2 all-time record in the first Big 12 Conference match of the season.
- Last season, the then-No. 25 Longhorns played to a 1-1 tie after 90 minutes at then-No. 12 TCU on Sept. 22.
- Under Coach Kelly, Texas has opened conference play against Baylor on two separate occasions: 2016 and 2018.
- In 2016, the two programs played to a 1-1 tie after two overtime periods in Waco on Sept. 23.
- Two seasons later, then-No. 11 Texas knocked off Baylor, 2-1, after a single overtime period in Austin on Sept. 21.
- Since the program's inception in 1994, Texas is 15-9-3 all time in the first Big 12 match of the season.
- Overall, the Longhorns are 1-1-1 against Baylor when opening Big 12 play against the Bears.
- The lone loss to the Bears occurred on Sept. 23, 2011, when Baylor won, 1-0, in Austin under then-head coach Chris Petrucelli.
- Texas played the 1995 season in the Southwest Conference and started the season with a six-goal win at TCU, thus making the Longhorns' overall record in conference-opening matches 16-9-3.
- Overall, the Longhorns are 1-1-1 against Baylor when opening Big 12 play against the Bears.
- With her next assist, junior midfielder Lexi Missimo will become the program's new single-season assist leader, breaking a tie with her single-season total (15) set a season ago in 2022.
- In every full season she's played, Missimo has finished that season either tied for or has broken the program's single-season assist record.
- Lexi Missimo and Trinity Byars are the first pair of Longhorn teammates to score 10-or-more goals in a single season since Niki Arlitt and Kelsey Carpenter both scored 10 goals each during the 2007 season.
- No pair of Texas women's soccer student-athletes have ever scored 11-or-more goals in a single season.
- With her next goal, junior forward Trinity Byars will become the first student-athlete in program history to score 11-or-more goals in three consecutive seasons.
- Byars is currently tied with Kelly McDonald (2001-03) for three 10-goal seasons.
- If Mia Justus records a clean sheet against Baylor on Thursday night, the first-year Longhorn goalkeeper will tie the program's single-season consecutive clean sheet record (4) that is currently held by three different former Longhorn student-athletes and was last accomplished by Savannah Madden from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, 2022.
- If the Texas defense holds Baylor scoreless for the first 56:58 of Thursday evening's match, the 2023 Longhorns will set a new streak for the longest stretch of game time without an opponent scoring, surpassing the 552:56 mark set by the 2021 squad from Sept. 30 to Oct. 24, 2021.
- Texas will enter Thursday night's match at Baylor riding an active 18-match unbeaten streak against Big 12 opponents during the regular season.
- The last time the Longhorns lost a regular-season conference match was Friday, Nov. 6, 2021, when Texas Tech won, 1-0, in Lubbock, a span of 677 days.
- Texas holds a 17-9-5 all-time record against Baylor, including an 8-3-3 mark against the Bears in Waco.
- Overall, the Longhorns have outscored the Bears, 43-28.
- Texas is unbeaten over the last eight regular season matches against Baylor, dating back to a 2-1 Bears win on Oct. 25, 2015 in Austin.
- The Longhorns have not lost to the Bears in Waco since Oct. 19, 2012, when Baylor won, 2-1, in overtime.
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