The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 5
Austin, Texas
6 PM
University of Texas
vs
San Diego State
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Texas looks to extend home consecutive clean sheet mark to seven straight matches
AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas women's soccer program will take the pitch at Mike A. Myers Stadium for the third of six consecutive matches when the Longhorns take on San Diego State at 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, Sept. 5. It'll mark the first meeting between UT and SDSU on the pitch since the 2011.
TELEVISION: Thursday evening's women's soccer match between Texas and San Diego State can be viewed on SEC Network+ and available to stream on the ESPN app. Lincoln Rose will serve as the broadcast's talent.
KICKING OFF
- The Texas defense will head into Thursday night's action having not allowed a goal in four games — a total 360:00 consecutive minutes — at Mike A. Myers Stadium this season.
- Dating back to a Big 12 Championship semifinal match against Texas Tech on Nov. 1, 2023, the Longhorns have not conceded a goal to the opposition in its last six straight home matches or 540 minutes.
- UT last allowed a goal at home at the 56:59 mark of a Big 12 Championship quarterfinal match against West Virginia on Oct. 30, 2023, thus extending the streak of consecutive minutes played without allowing an opponent goal to 573:01.
- Dating back to a Big 12 Championship semifinal match against Texas Tech on Nov. 1, 2023, the Longhorns have not conceded a goal to the opposition in its last six straight home matches or 540 minutes.
- Texas senior midfielder Lexi Missimo will enter the Longhorns' match against San Diego State needing just two goals to reach the 50-goal, 50-assist milestone for her collegiate women's soccer career.
- Missimo is also one point shy of scoring 150 points for her career.
- Her 149 career points already ranks first among active Division I women's soccer student-athletes, but currently ranks sixth in all of NCAA women's soccer behind five D-III student-athletes.
- Missimo is also one point shy of scoring 150 points for her career.
- Thursday's match against San Diego State will mark the first time the Longhorns and Aztecs have met on the pitch for a women's soccer match since Oct. 9, 2011, when SDSU won, 1-0, in Austin.
- The 2011 matchup has been the only meeting between the two programs.
- When Texas takes the pitch against San Diego State on Thursday, it will mark the 30th match for second-year Longhorn Mia Justus between the pipes.
- In 2,537:13 of match time on the Forty Acres throughout 29 matches, Justus has been credited with 21 wins with 13 coming via a solo clean sheet and a combined clean sheet with Megan Hogate during the 2023 campaign.
- Justus needs nine more victories to tie Alexa Gaul (2009-11) for fifth on the program's career wins list.
- The Ohio native is also just six more solo clean sheets from tying Gaul for fifth on the program's career solo clean sheet list.
- In 2,537:13 of match time on the Forty Acres throughout 29 matches, Justus has been credited with 21 wins with 13 coming via a solo clean sheet and a combined clean sheet with Megan Hogate during the 2023 campaign.
- With a win over San Diego State, Texas women's soccer head coach Angela Kelly will earn her 300th career victory in her 25th year of coaching collegiate women's soccer.
- Kelly will enter Thursday night's contest with a 299-158-53 all-time record, including a 139-74-33 mark in 13 seasons on the Forty Acres.
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