The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 7
Austin, TX
7 PM
University of Texas
vs
Stephen F. Austin
No. 17 Soccer preview: Stephen F. Austin
09.06.2023 | Soccer
Texas will look for fourth consecutive clean sheet with Thursday night's matchup
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 17 Texas Soccer program will be back in action on Thursday, Sept. 7, when the Longhorns take on the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks at 7 p.m. at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Glenn Davis (play by play) and Jessica Stamp (analyst) will serve as the television talent for the Longhorn Network broadcast.
KICKING OFF
- A win for Texas over Stephen F. Austin on Thursday night would mark the sixth victory for the Longhorns in seven matches so far this season.
- The victory would be the most wins by a Texas team through the first seven regular season matches of a season since the 2018, when the Longhorns began the season with a 6-0-1 mark.
- Texas will enter Thursday evening's contest against the Lumberjacks riding a consecutive-weeks-being-ranked streak of 16, which is now the second longest such streak by the Longhorns under 12th-year head coach Angela Kelly.
- Texas ranked for 21 consecutive weeks during the entirety of the 2018 season.
- The current 16-week streak is the fourth longest streak in program history.
- With her next assist, junior midfielder Lexi Missimo will pass Kelly Wilson for the most seasons (3) by a Longhorn women's soccer student-athlete with 12-or-more assists.
- Missimo has single-season assist marks of 15 (2022), 14 (2021) and 11 (2023).
- Wilson has single-season assist marks of 14 (2004), 12 (2001) and 11 (2002).
- Lexi Missimo is three assists shy of breaking the program's single-season assist mark by a junior student-athlete with Kati McBain setting the mark (13) during the 2002 season.
- The junior combination of Trinity Byars and Lexi Missimo are both in hot pursuit of the program's single-season points record set by a junior student-athlete with Kelsey Carpenter (15 goals, five assists) setting the mark with 35 points in 2006.
- Missimo currently leads the team with 25 points (11 assists, seven goals), while Byars has 23 points (nine goals, five assists).
- With her next goal, Trinity Byars will join Kelly McDonald as the only student-athletes in program history with three consecutive seasons with 10-or-more goals.
- McDonald accomplished the feat in 2001 (10), 2002 (14) and 2003 (14), whereas Byars has done so in 2021 (12) and 2022 (17).
- Thursday evening's matchup between Texas and Stephen F. Austin will mark the first time the two women's soccer programs have met on the pitch since Sept. 6, 2019, when the Longhorns knocked off the Lumberjacks, 3-1, in Nacogdoches.
- Texas last beat Stephen F. Austin in Austin on Sept. 2, 2018, when the Longhorns won 5-0.
- Overall, Texas holds a 4-0-0 record against Stephen F. Austin dating back to the first-ever meeting between the two on Sept. 23, 2007, when the Longhorns won, 4-0, in Austin.
- In four all-time meetings between the two women's soccer programs, Texas has outscored Stephen F. Austin, 14-1.
- Lexi Missimo and Trinity Byars will enter Thursday night's match against Stephen F. Austin leading all of Division I women's soccer in total points with 25 and 23, respectively.
- Missimo and Byars' individual point totals make The University of Texas the only Division I women's soccer program with multiple student-athletes having 20-or-more points at this point in the 2023 season.
- Texas Tech's Ashleigh Williams (21) is the only other Division I women's soccer student-athlete to have reached the 20-plus point mark at this point of the new season.
- Missimo and Byars' individual point totals make The University of Texas the only Division I women's soccer program with multiple student-athletes having 20-or-more points at this point in the 2023 season.
- A clean sheet by the Longhorn defense against the Lumberjacks would mark the fourth consecutive shutout by Texas, the longest such streak since posting four straight clean sheets from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, 2022.
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