Thursday, October 10
Waco, Texas
7PM
Baylor
vs
Arizona State
SOC Prepares for Last Home Contests of the Season
10/9/2024 5:54:00 PM | Soccer
Bears hosting Arizona State, West Virginia
BAYLOR (6-5-3) vs ARIZONA STATE (7-3-3)
Oct. 10, 2024 • 7 p.m. CT • Watch: ESPN+ • Waco, Texas • Betty Lou Mays FieldBAYLOR (6-5-3) vs WEST VIRGINIA (9-2-2)
Oct. 13, 2024 • 1 p.m. CT • Watch: ESPN+ • Waco, Texas • Betty Lou Mays FieldSTORY LINES
- Baylor is getting set to host Arizona State on Thursday, Oct. 10, and West Virginia on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Betty Lou Mays Field.
- Thursdays match will feature a post-game senior night celebration where the Bears will celebrate seven seniors: Blythe Obar, Ashley Merrill, Marissa Gray, Jordan Ryan, Ava Colberg, Kate Zimmerman and Haven Terry.
- The 2024 season marks the 28th season of the Baylor Soccer program. During that time, BU has won four Big 12 titles, advanced to two Elite Eights and had four All-Americans to go with countless All-Big 12 and Academic All-Big 12 honorees.
- This season also marks the third year of the Michelle Lenard coaching era, as she was selected as the Bears sixth head coach in program history in December of 2021.
- With the new Big 12 teams joining the conference this season, the Bears will only play 11 of the 15 other opponents this season. The Bears will face all four of the new schools, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. BU will not face Cincinnati, UCF, Kansas or Kansas State in regular season play.
- The Bears are 6-5-3 so far on the season, with four of BU's losses coming against ranked or receiving votes opponents (No. 18 Mississippi State, No. 22 Iowa, No. 15 Oklahoma State and RV Texas Tech). The Bears most recently fell against Texas Tech, 1-0.
- Baylor has a 33 person roster this season and features 25 returners and eight newcomers.
- Returning to the squad for the first time since the 2022 season in fifth-year Marissa Gray. After working for the past year and applying to PT school, Gray re-joined the Bears to use her fifth year of eligibility. She hasn't seen playing time since the 2019 season due to injury but returns to the pitch as a veteran on the backline.
- This season the Bears roster features two international student-athletes for the first time since the 2017 season. Salma Simonin returns to Baylor from Manchester, United Kingdom and Hilary Washington joins the Bears from Wellesley, Ontario, Canada.
- Tyler Isgrig leads the Bears so far this season in points with 13, off of four goals and five assists. She has played the fifth most minutes so far this season (1137).
- The junior forward, Isgrig, currently sits tied for fifth in most career assists in BU's record books with 17 so far with assists from both TCU and Baylor.
- Joining Isgrig with multiple goals this season are Ashley Merrill, Hallie Augustyn, Hannah Augustyn and Callie Conrad, while Kai Hayes has one goal. BU has two team goals this year from own goals, including one this week against Colorado.
- In the Bears' 4-0 win over the Houston Cougars, four different Bears recorded a goal. That marked BU's first game with four different goal scorers since Sept. 10, 2023.
- Azul Alvarez has posted four shutout wins this season, with a career-high eight saves twice this season, once against Iowa and once against Arizona.
- Alvarez and Conrad have picked up the Bears' only Big 12 conference weekly award so far this season, being named Goalkeeper and Offensive Player of the Week (8/28).
- Baylor is 2-4 all-time against Arizona State, last facing the Sun Devils on Sept. 7, 2018, when BU won 1-0.
- BU is 2-8-2 all-time against West Virginia, not playing the Mountaineers last season in conference play.
- Baylor is currently sitting at No. 40 in the RPI rankings. The Big 12 as a whole has eight teams sitting in the top 50 in RPI rankings.
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