Soccer preview: Texas A&M

AUSTIN, Texas – In a rivalry that dates back 30 years, Texas and Texas A&M will add the latest chapter to the Lone Star Showdown when the two women's soccer programs meet at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29 on the Forty Acres.

TELEVISION: Lincoln Rose (play by play) and Jessica Stamp (analyst) will call Sunday evening's action for the SEC Network+ broadcast from the television booth at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

SERIES HISTORY:

The series history between Texas and Texas A&M dates back to their first-ever meeting on Sept. 25, 1994, when the Aggies won, 2-1, in a double-overtime contest in College Station.
Over the course of the 27-match series history, Texas has knocked off Texas A&M nine times as the Aggies hold a 19-6-2 all-time record against the Longhorns.
- However, Texas won the last meeting between the two programs on Nov. 11, 2022, when the Longhorns beat the Aggies, 3-1, in the first round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament.
In 11 all-time matches played in Austin, Texas is 4-5-2 against Texas A&M.
Heading into Sunday night's match, Texas has not won back-to-back matches against Texas A&M since the 2007 season, when the Longhorns beat the Aggies, 2-1 and 3-2, on Nov. 11 and Nov. 17, respectively.
While the final two 2007 matchups were played in San Antonio and College Station, respectively, Texas has not won back-to-back matches over Texas A&M in Austin since Oct. 2, 2005 (2-1) and Oct. 27, 2006 (1-0).
The September 29 meeting will be the earliest the two programs have played each other since Sept. 26, 2008, when the teams played to a 0-0 double overtime tie.
- Texas will be looking for its first-ever victory over Texas A&M during the month of September.
  - The Longhorns enter this weekend's contest with a 0-3-1 all-time record against the Aggies in September.

KICKING OFF:

Texas senior midfielder Lexi Missimo will enter Sunday's action tied with Arkansas' Lily Boydstun for the most assists (3) among Southeastern Conference (SEC) women's soccer student-athletes in conference-only matches this season.
- Boydstun (1.00) and Missimo (1.00) are the only student-athletes to average 1.00-or-more assists per match during SEC play.
Lexi Missimo (20) and Arkansas' Ava Tankersley (20) will take the pitch on Sunday as the only women's soccer student-athletes to be credited with 20-or-more points to this point of the 2024 campaign.
If Texas senior goalkeeper Mia Justus (7) records a clean sheet on Sunday, the Ohio native will tie Auburn's Maddie Prohaska (8) for the most clean sheets by a goal keeper in the SEC this season.
- Justus' seven clean sheets this season are tied for the seventh most in the program's single-season history.
  - Nicole Curry holds the program's single-season clean sheet record after posting 11 throughout the 2017 season.
    - Curry is the only Longhorn goalkeeper to ever record 10-or-more clean sheets in a single season.
When she takes the pitch against Texas A&M on Sunday, Lauren Lapomarda will become just the eighth student-athlete in program history to appear in 90-or-more collegiate soccer matches wearing the Texas kit.
- Lapomarda (89) is on pace to become the program's leader in career matches played when Texas plays Oklahoma in Austin on Thursday, Oct. 10.
  - Emily Anderson (2006-09), Kasey Moore (2005-08) and Amy Burlingham (2003-06) currently holds the record with 91 career matches played.

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Players Mentioned

Mia Justus

Lauren Lapomarda

Lexi Missimo

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