The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Tuesday, November 5
Pensacola, Fla.
2 PM
University of Texas
vs
LSU
No. 21 Soccer preview: 2024 SEC Soccer Tournament Quarterfinals
11.03.2024 | Soccer
Texas to play first conference tournament match outside of Texas since the 2019 season
PENSACOLA, Fla. – With the regular season now in the rearview mirror, The University of Texas women's soccer program turns its attention towards another successful postseason run when the third-seeded Longhorns square off with the 11th-seeded LSU Tigers at 2 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Brosnaham Soccer Complex in Pensacola, Fla., in the quarterfinals of the 2024 SEC Soccer Tournament.
TELEVISION: Alex Perlman (play by play) and Marion Crowder (analyst) will call Tuesday's action on the SEC Network, a broadcast that can also be streamed on the ESPN app.
SERIES HISTORY:
- Including a regular season matchup last month, Texas has not lost a women's soccer match against LSU when scoring more than two goals during the match.
- In fact, of all four of the Longhorns' wins over the Tigers, UT has scored 3-or-more goals throughout the match.
- Following the Longhorns' 3-1 win at LSU in October 2024, Texas head coach Angela Kelly is now 10-5-2 all time against LSU, a record that is highlighted by a seven-match winning streak while at the helm of the Tennessee Volunteers.
- Texas will enter Tuesday afternoon's match against LSU with a 4-1-1 all-time record, but none of the previous six matchups have occurred at a neutral site.
- Of the four matchups between Texas and LSU during the same timeframe as Kelly's tenure at Tennessee, Texas and the Volunteers both beat LSU during the same season on three separate occasions: 2001, 2003 and 2006.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY:
- Tuesday afternoon's match will mark Texas' first-ever contest in the SEC's postseason soccer tournament.
- It will also be the Longhorns' first postseason conference tournament match outside the state of Texas since 2019, when the Big 12's conference tournament was held at the Swope Soccer Village at Kansas City, Mo.
- Furthermore, the Longhorns have never won a postseason conference tournament match outside the state of Texas throughout the program's history:
- Kansas City, Mo. – 0-4-4
- St. Louis, Mo. – 0-1-0
- Furthermore, the Longhorns have never won a postseason conference tournament match outside the state of Texas throughout the program's history:
- It will also be the Longhorns' first postseason conference tournament match outside the state of Texas since 2019, when the Big 12's conference tournament was held at the Swope Soccer Village at Kansas City, Mo.
- Texas head coach Angela Kelly will take the pitch for the Longhorns' contest on Tuesday with a 13-8-3 (.604) all-time record in SEC Soccer Tournament matches during her tenure (2000-11) at the helm of the Tennessee Volunteers.
- Additionally, Kelly had won four (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) SEC Tournament titles while coaching in Knoxville, Tenn.
- The Volunteers also had a championship match appearance in 2004, but fell to third-seed Florida, 2-1, in double overtime.
- After dropping first-round matchups in 2000 and 2001, respectively, Kelly's squad went on to an eight-match unbeaten streak to capture back-to-back tournament championships in 2002 and 2003.
- Additionally, Kelly had won four (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) SEC Tournament titles while coaching in Knoxville, Tenn.
- A Kelly-led squad is 1-1-1 all time against LSU during the SEC Soccer Tournament:
- 2-0, W, in the first round of the 2005 tournament (Nov. 3)
- 1-1, T, in the semifinals of the 2008 tournament (Nov. 7)
- Volunteers advanced to the championship match after a 4-2 penalty kick round.
- 0-1, L, in overtime during a first-round matchup in the 2010 tournament (Nov. 4)
KICKING OFF:
- The last time Texas and LSU met on the pitch – Oct. 11, 2024 in Baton Rouge – the Longhorns' four-time all-conference selection Lexi Missimo became the program's new leader in career goals when the Southlake native passed teammate and life-long best friend Trinity Byars (52) with goal number 53.
- Missimo will enter Tuesday's match as the active leader – among Division I women's soccer student-athletes - in career goals with 56.
- With four more goals, Missimo will become the first Division I women's soccer student-athlete to reach the 60-goal, 60-assist career milestone since Notre Dame's Kerri Hanks (2005-08).
- Missimo will enter Tuesday's match as the active leader – among Division I women's soccer student-athletes - in career goals with 56.
- A win over LSU on Tuesday would mark the first time in program history that Texas won the first postseason conference tournament match in its first try.
- The Longhorns fell to Baylor, 3-1, in the first round of the 1996 Big 12 Tournament, the first-ever Big 12 postseason conference tournament match for UT.
- Carol Finch scored Texas' lone goal in the match at the 48:19 mark of the contest on Nov. 11, 1996.
- The Longhorns fell to Baylor, 3-1, in the first round of the 1996 Big 12 Tournament, the first-ever Big 12 postseason conference tournament match for UT.
- If put into the starting lineup for Tuesday's match, Lauren Lapomarda will set the program's record for most career matches started with 92, passing Kasey Moore (2005-08) for the top spot.
- A goal by Lexi Missimo against the Tigers would be the sixth consecutive match with a goal for the midfielder, tying Trinity Byars (Sept. 12 – Sept. 30, 2021) for the longest streak of consecutive matches with a goal.
- Additionally, if Missimo either scores a goal or is credited with an assist, she'll become just the third student-athlete (Kelly Wilson, Sept. 7 – Oct. 14, 2001; Trinity Byars, Sept. 25 – Oct. 30, 2022) to record a point in nine consecutive matches.
- A potential clean sheet by Mia Justus on Tuesday would be the senior goalkeeper's 11th on the season, tying Nicole Curry's single-season clean sheet record set throughout the 2017 season.
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- 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.
