The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 12
Austin, Texas
7 PM
University of Texas
vs
Houston Christian
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The Texas Longhorns welcome the Houston Christian Huskies back to the Forty Acres for the first time since 2018
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas will look to close outs the non-conference portion of its regular season schedule with an undefeated mark for just the fourth time in program history when the Longhorns and Houston Christian Huskies meet at Mike A. Myers Stadium at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12.
TELEVISION: Chris Sylvester will call Thursday night's action on the SEC Network+ stream that will be available to watch on the ESPN app.
KICKING OFF
- Thursday night will mark the first time Texas has played Houston Christian since the 2018 season.
- The Longhorns won the last matchup, 4-0, when the two programs last met on Sept. 9, 2018.
- Four different UT women's soccer student-athletes scored during that match meaning no one student-athlete in program history has recorded multiple goals against the Huskies.
- Texas is 6-0-0 all time against the Southland Conference with the last matchup occurring on Nov. 10, 2023, when the Longhorns beat Lamar, 2-0, in the opening round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament in a match played in Austin.
- Houston Christian is one of 35 women's soccer programs to have never scored a goal against Texas, a list that was added to this season when the Longhorns played Cal State Bakersfield, Iowa and Central Michigan.
- The Longhorns won the last matchup, 4-0, when the two programs last met on Sept. 9, 2018.
- Texas senior midfielder Lexi Missimo will enter Thursday's match needing just two goals to tie Trinity Byars' career goals program record (52) and three to set a new record.
- Byars (52) and Missimo (50) are not only the only student-athletes in program history to have scored 50-or-more goals throughout a career, but the Texas duo are also the only active Division I women's soccer student-athletes to do so as well.
- A win over Houston Christian would mark just the fourth time in program history that the Longhorns went undefeated against non-conference opponents during the regular season:
- 2018: 8-0-1
- 2017: 8-0-0
- 2008: 7-0-1
- With her next assist, Lexi Missimo will record her 55th career assist, becoming the first Division I women's soccer student-athlete to reach the mark after beginning their collegiate career after 2009.
- Missimo will move into a tie for 19th on the NCAA Division I career assist list once she records her 55th career assist.
- If Texas freshman forward Amalia Villarreal records two points against the Huskies on Thursday night, it'll mark the first time a Longhorn freshman women's soccer student-athlete has recorded a streak of three-or-more consecutive matches with two-or-more points since Trinity Byars did so from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30, 2021.
- Byars, during her freshman season in 2021, actually turned in a streak of six consecutive matches with at least two points.
- The streak ultimately ended up at eight straight matches with at least one point.
- Kelly Wilson set the freshman record of consecutive matches with a point at nine from Sept. 7 to Oct. 14, 2001.
- Byars, during her freshman season in 2021, actually turned in a streak of six consecutive matches with at least two points.
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