The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, October 24
Austin, Texas
7 PM
University of Texas
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Missouri
Soccer preview: Missouri
10.22.2024 | Soccer
Texas set to honor 10 student-athletes following final home regular season match of the 2024 season
AUSTIN, Texas – For the final time during the 2024 regular season, The University of Texas women's soccer program will take the pitch at Mike A. Myers Stadium, where the Longhorns will square off against the Missouri Tigers for the first time since 2011.
TELEVISION: Chris Sylvester (play by play) and Madison Hogue (analyst) will have the call on SEC Network+ for the final regular season home match for the Longhorns in 2024.
SERIES HISTORY:
- Texas will enter Thursday night's match having not lost to Missouri during the regular season since the 1997 campaign, when the Tigers knocked off the Longhorns, 4-1, in Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 5.
- UT has not lost to MU in Austin, Texas since Sept. 13, 1996, when the two women's soccer programs met on the pitch for the first of their now 19 all-time meetings.
- Texas is 6-1-1 all time against Missouri in matches played on the Forty Acres.
- UT has not lost to MU in Austin, Texas since Sept. 13, 1996, when the two women's soccer programs met on the pitch for the first of their now 19 all-time meetings.
- The Longhorns are unbeaten against the Tigers over their last three consecutive matches.
- Furthermore, UT is 12-1-2 over its last 15 meetings with MU.
- Thursday evening's matchup will mark the first-ever match for Texas head coach Angela Kelly against Missouri.
- The Tigers played in the Big 12 Conference throughout Kelly's tenure (2000-11) in Knoxville, before moving to the SEC the same year (2012) Kelly became the head coach of the Longhorns.
- The two women's soccer programs have met only as conference foes while each were in the Big 12 (1996-2011).
- Thursday will mark the first meeting between the two since Oct. 2, 2011, when the Longhorns won, 2-1, in Columbia.
- It will also mark the first time Missouri has played a soccer match in Austin since Oct. 2, 2009, when the two teams played to a 1-1 double-overtime tie.
- Thursday will mark the first meeting between the two since Oct. 2, 2011, when the Longhorns won, 2-1, in Columbia.
- Thursday will also be just the second time Texas and Missouri have ever played on Oct. 24.
- The two did so during the 1999 season with the game concluding, 0-0, after a double overtime period.
- Thus, any goal scored during Thursday night's contest would be the first against the other in a match played on Oct. 24.
- The two did so during the 1999 season with the game concluding, 0-0, after a double overtime period.
KICKING OFF:
- Following her assist on Ashlyn Miller's second-half goal against Arkansas last week, Lexi Missimo will enter Thursday night's match four assists shy of tying UConn's Jennifer Tietjen (1995-98) for 10th on the NCAA Division I women's soccer career assist list.
- Missimo, a senior midfielder, will take the pitch at Mike A. Myers Stadium for her final regular season home match on Thursday as the only Big 12/SEC women's soccer student-athlete to be ranked inside the top 11 on the list.
- If she earns a spot in Coach Kelly's Starting XI against the Tigers, fifth-year senior defender Lauren Lapomarda will become just the third student-athlete in program history to start 90-or-more matches during their career at Texas.
- 91 – Kasey Moore (2005-08)
- 90 – Jill Gilbeau (2005-08)
- 89 – Lauren Lapomarda (2020-P)
- 89 – Emma Regan (2018-22)
- With Lapomarda is the Starting XI, Texas is 56-19-14 (70.8 winning percentage).
- A win over Missouri on Thursday would mark the 60th all-time victory for Texas over a current member of the SEC.
- The Longhorns will enter the match with a 59-46-13 record against the 15 current programs.
- The University of Texas soccer program is set to honor 10 student-athletes in conjunction with Thursday night's match marking the final regular season home match of the 2024 season: Mia Justus, Amelia Abbott, Lexi Missimo, Jilly Shimkin, Holly Ward, Trinity Byars, EmJ Cox, Ashlyn Miller, Megan Hogate and Madison Haugen.
- Even though the 10 are going through senior festivities, it does not automatically close the door on potential returnees for next season as Abby Allen, Hannah Waesch, Taylor Dellosso and Lauren Lapomarda all were honored in 2023.
FOLLOW US:
- For the latest information on the team, follow @TexasSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at @TexasLonghorns on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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