NCAA Women's Soccer Championship • Third Round
Wed., May 5 • 11 a.m. (CST) • Cary, N.C.
WakeMed Soccer Park (Field 4)
TV/Video: NCAA.com
Radio: None
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC
About Oklahoma State
• Oklahoma State is 13-3-1 after opening play in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship with a dominant second-round win over South Alabama, a 7-0 victory that sent the Cowgirls to the Sweet 16 for the third time in program history. Up next, the No. 10 national seed Cowgirls will take on former conference foe and No. 7 national seed Texas A&M on Wednesday in Cary, N.C., as they look to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals for the third time in their history and first time since 2011.
• The Cowgirls are coming off a championship season in 2019 as they went 16-3-3 overall and claimed the Big 12 Conference regular season title with a 7-1-1 league mark. OSU advanced to the second round of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship and finished ranked as high as No. 13 nationally.
• The Cowgirls return 16 letterwinners from 2019, including eight players who started at least 10 games.
• The 2020 season is the 25th in program history; over the first 24, OSU posted a 289-164-54 (.623) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 16th season at the helm in 2020 with a 206-84-41 mark.
Cowgirls At The NCAA Championship
• OSU is making its 13th NCAA Women's Soccer Championship appearance in program history and second straight. The Cowgirls have earned a tourney bid six times in the last eight years and 12 times in the last 15 years. Their first NCAA berth came in 2003; they made six-straight trips from 2006-11 and back-to-back appearances in 2013-14, 2016-17 and 2019-20.
• OSU is 11-9-5 all time at the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, and the Cowgirls have advanced to at least the second round nine times, including back-to-back Elite Eight appearances in 2010 and 2011.
• The Cowgirls posted a 7-0 win in their second-round match against South Alabama last week to advance to the third Sweet 16 in program history. The seven goals was OSU's second most in an NCAA tourney game in program history behind only the nine they scored in a 2011 opening-round win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Four different Cowgirls scored goals, with Gabriella Coleman, Grace Yochum and Megan Haines each finding the back of the net twice and Olyvia Dowell also tallying a goal.
Cowgirls vs. Aggies
Former Big 12 Conference foes, OSU and Texas A&M will meet for the 22nd time and the first time since 2017 when the Cowgirls traveled to College Station and posted a 2-2 tie against the 12th-ranked Aggies.
The Cowgirls are 1-16-4 all time against TAMU. OSU's lone win in the series came in 2009 when it defeated the Aggies, 1-0, in the title game of the Big 12 Championship in San Antonio.
About The Aggies
• Texas A&M is the No. 7 national seed in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship and advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 2-0 win over South Florida in a second-round match last week.
• The Aggies are 12-3-0 on the season and finished SEC play with a 7-1-0 league mark.
• TAMU has outscored its opponents 30-11 on the year, and Barbara Olivieri leads the Aggies with eight goals and four assists. The Aggies have posted nine shutouts, seven of those by goalie Kenna Caldwell.
Winning Is A Habit
Now in its 25th season, Oklahoma State soccer has built itself into an established winner.
• OSU has earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship 12 of the last 15 years (beginning in 2006) and six of the last eight.
• From 2006-11, the Cowgirls earned six-straight NCAA tourney bids and advanced to at least the second round each time, including back-to-back Elite Eight appearances in 2010 and 2011.
• From 2008-11, OSU celebrated four consecutive Big 12 championships — two regular season (2008, '11) and two tournament ('09, '10). The Cowgirls also won regular season titles in 2017 and 2019.
High Five
For the second consecutive season, Oklahoma State had five players selected as All-Big 12 Conference performers while a pair of Cowgirl freshmen were also honored.
Earning 2020 All-Big 12 First Team honors for the Cowgirls were defender Kim Rodriguez and forward Olyvia Dowell, while defender Charmé Morgan, midfielder Grace Yochum and forward Gabriella Coleman were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team.
Additionally, defender Kionna Simon and midfielder Grace Dennis were chosen for the Big 12 All-Freshman Team, with Simon being a unanimous selection.
OSU's five All-Big 12 honorees marks just the fourth time in program history five or more Cowgirls have garnered all-conference recognition and is tied for the second-highest total in school history. A program-record seven Cowgirls earned All-Big 12 status in 2011 while OSU previously had five All-Big 12 performers in 2010 and 2019.
Rodriguez earned All-Big 12 First Team accolades for the second consecutive season, and the senior is now a three-time all-conference performer in her career. Both distinctions place her in rare company – she is only the sixth player in OSU history to earn first-team status twice or more in a career, and she is just the eighth Cowgirl to be named all-conference three or more times.
Elite Company
Kim Rodriguez became the fifth All-American in Cowgirl Soccer history in 2019 when she was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team as a defender. She joined a list of OSU All-Americans that included Yolanda Odenyo, Melinda Mercado, AD Franch and Haley Woodard.
Rodriguez was also a unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection a year ago as she recorded three goals and seven assists and anchored a defense that posted 10 shutouts and allowed just 18 goals in 22 games.
In 2018, Rodriguez earned All-Big 12 and All-South Region honors following a sophomore season in which she tied for the OSU team lead in scoring with 14 points on four goals and a team-high six assists.
Rodriguez entered her final collegiate season having tallied nine goals and 16 assists in 61 matches.
But Rodriguez is not just a standout for the Cowgirls.
After shining at the youth level for Mexico's national teams and playing in the 2014 and 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cups and the 2018 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Rodriguez was selected for the Mexico National Team in February 2019 and earned her first-career cap as a starter against Italy at the 2019 Cyprus Women's Cup.
Rodriguez played for Mexico at the 2019 Pan American Games, scoring her first-career goal vs. Panama and helping Mexico to a fifth-place finish at the games.
Scoring In Bunches
Grace Yochum has established herself as one of the Big 12's top scorers and earned All-Big 12 First Team honors as both a sophomore and junior.
In 50 career games, Yochum has amassed 27 goals, which is tied for seventh on OSU's all-time list. With potentially two more seasons left after this one due to 2020-21 being a "COVID season," Yochum could challenge the program record of 35 goals held by Yolanda Odenyo and Jolene Schweitzer.
This season marks Yochum's second straight of reaching double digits in goals as the junior midfielder has found the back of the net 12 times. She has had two streaks of six consecutive games with a goal spanning this season — Oct. 6, 2019 vs. K-State-Sept. 18, 2020 vs. Iowa State and Nov. 12, 2020 vs. OU-March 27, 2021 vs. OU — and she leads the NCAA this season with eight game-winning goals.
In 2019, Yochum led OSU and was fifth in the Big 12 with 11 goals, the most ever by a Cowgirl sophomore and the most by an OSU player since 2013. She posted three multi-goal games, including a hat trick vs. Iowa State, to become the first Cowgirl since '13 to have three games in a season with multiple goals.
In 2018, Yochum was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team after scoring four goals in 18 games.
In The Rankings
After being peaking at No. 4 during the fall season and finishing at No. 12 in the Nov. 24 poll, OSU is 19th in the most recent United Soccer Coaches poll and also checks in at No. 11 in this week's TopDrawerSoccer.com rankings. The Cowgirls have appeared in the national rankings for 31 consecutive weeks dating back to last season, which they ended ranked as high as 13th in the final polls.
Quick Kicks
• Grace Yochum is the NCAA leader this season in game-winning goals with eight, and her 12 goals ranks sixth nationally.
• Olyvia Dowell, Gabriella Coleman and Grace Yochum each rank in the top 10 in the Big 12 in goals and have combined for 30 of OSU's 37 goals this season.
• With 11 goals and six assists, Olyvia Dowell's 28 points ranks eighth nationally this season. The 11 goals also puts her eighth in the NCAA in 2020-21.
• Kim Rodriguez is tied for seventh on OSU's all-time assists list with 21. She has five on the season.
• Emily Plotz has posted six shutouts for the Cowgirls this season and has 20 shutouts in her career — 14 of those came during her career at Stetson.
• Grace Yochum's 12 goals this season are tied for the seventh most in a single season in program history; the record is 16, set by Yolanda Odenyo in 2008.
• Olyvia Dowell also ranks in the top 10 on OSU's single-season goals list, with her 11 goals tied for 10th.
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