Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG - The Virginia Tech Women's Soccer team welcomes two more teams to Thompson Field for a pair of matches this weekend.
Gameday Information
Admission to all games is free
Clear Bag Policy will be implemented for all home events this year on Tech's campus
Friday, August 24 - 7 PM
Thompson Field, Blacksburg, Virginia
vs. UNCW Seahawks (2-0)
Head Coach: Chris Neal (first season)
Record at school: 2-0-0; career: 92-76-31 (11)
Series: Tech leads 2-0-0
Sunday, August 26 - 5 PM
Thompson Field, Blacksburg, Virginia
vs. High Point Panthers (1-1)
Head Coach: Brandi Fontaine (first season)
Record at school: 1-1-0; career: same
Series: Tech leads 6-0-0
Gameday Coverage
Broadcast: ACC NETWORK EXTRA
Link for Friday
Link for Sunday
Live Stats: Link for Both games
Top Notes for the Hokies (link to Game Notes pdf packet)
Hokies start 2018 with two draws, reach one milestone; approaching a few more
- Tech opened its 26th season of women's soccer at the school with a pair of draws against San Diego, Friday, and then-No. 22 Georgetown. The Sunday match against the Hoyas was the 500th match in school history. In those first 500 games, Tech held a 247-210-43 overall record.
- Sitting at 247 victories all-time, it means Tech is just three wins shy of 250 in program history.
- Tech head women's soccer coach Chugger Adair enters the weekend just five wins shy of 100 in his coaching career - currently with a 95-40-17 mark. All of those wins have come as an ACC coach, and he would become just the 10th women's soccer head coach to reach that total as an ACC coach.
- Lastly, all-time at Thompson Field, the Hokies hold a 92-41-19 mark, just eight wins shy of 100.
Speaking of draws and overtime
- In their prior 25 seasons, the Hokies had never opened a campaign with back-to-back ties and this weekend they will be looking for their first victory of the season.
- Four times, Tech failed to win a game in its first two of the year - 1995 (lost both); 2000 (lost both); 2001 (a tie and a loss); and 2002 (lost both). In 1995, 2000 and 2001, the Hokies won their third match, while the 2002 squad did not pick up its first win until match No. 8.
- Tech has already played two overtime matches this season after setting a school record with seven overtime games last year, going 1-1-5. The five ties set a single-season school record.
- In its history, the school record for back-to-back draws is two, now done six times, while Tech has played back-to-back overtime matches 13 times.
- The most consecutive overtime games played in a single season is four - from Oct. 9-23, 2016 (Tech went 1-1-2 in those four) and IF you go back to last season, when the Hokies finished the season with back-to-back overtime matches in their last two, the streak is now at four as well (Tech is 0-1-3).
This weekend's opponents
- Versus UNCW: the Hokies have faced the Seahawks twice in program history and are 2-0-0. In the last meeting, Ashley Meier scored just five minutes into the contest while Shannon Mayrose added an insurance tally in the 70th minute for a 2-0 victory on Sept. 7, 2014 in Blacksburg.
- Versus High Point: the Hokies have faced the Panthers six times in program history and are 6-0-0. Meier also scored the game-winner in Tech's last meeting against High Point, while Ashley Manning netted a pair of goals in Tech's 7-1 victory on Aug. 23, 2013 in Blacksburg
- Combined, the Hokies are a perfect 6-0 playing on the dates this weekend, picking up two victories on Aug. 24 and four wins on Aug. 26.