Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG - For the first time in program history, Tech will take a two-match SEC road trip, traveling to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Athens, Georgia. This will also be the first ever trip to either location.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Thursday, August 30 - 8 PM
UA Soccer Complex, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
vs. Alabama Crimson Tide (1-2-1)
Head Coach: Wes Hart (Fourth season)
Record at school: 27-30-6; career: same
Series: First meeting
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Broadcast: SEC+
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Sunday, September 2 - 2 PM
UGA Soccer Stadium, Athens, Georgia
vs. Georgia Bulldogs (2-1-1)
Head Coach: Billy Lesesne (Fourth season)
Record at school: 17-36-5; career: same
Series: Tech leads 1-0-0
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Broadcast: SEC+
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Top Notes for the Hokies (link to Game Notes pdf packet)
Tech to travel to Alabama and Georgia to face Crimson Tide and Bulldogs
- For the first time in program history, Tech will take a two-match SEC road trip, traveling to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Athens, Georgia. This will also be the first ever trip to either location.
- This trip will mark the first ever visit to the state of Alabama for the Hokies and the second ever to the Peach State - Tech lost a 2-1 match at Georgia Southern on Oct. 26, 1993.
- All-time, the Hokies are 7-5-1 versus current SEC teams and includes a 3-1-1 mark at home, an 0-2-0 record on the road and 4-2-0 record in neutral site games.
- Tech's only true road match at an SEC opponent was last year at Tennessee, while they also played a game at Texas A&M in 2010, but the Aggies were not in the conference at the time.
Hokies reach one milestone this season; approaching two more
- Tech opened its 26th season of women's soccer with a pair of draws against San Diego (8/17) and then-No. 22 Georgetown (8/19). 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 249 victories all-time, it means Tech is just one win shy of 250 in program history.
- Tech head coach Chugger Adair enters the weekend just three wins shy of 100 in his coaching career, as he currently holds a 97-40-17 all-time mark.
Tech looking to close out August strong once again; stay unbeaten through six matches
- In its history, Tech holds an overall mark of 40-8-8 in matches played in the month of August, including marks of 23-1-6 at home, 12-6-0 on the road and 5-1-2 in neutral site matches.
- Since 2011, Adair's first season as head coach, the team has not lost a match in the month, and are 28-0-5 overall - 15-0-3 at home, 9-0-0 on the road and 4-0-2 at neutral sites.
- The last time Tech lost in August was a neutral site game versus Long Beach State (2-1) on Aug. 29, 2010 at the Aggieland Invitational Tournament in College Station, Texas. Ironically, the last time the team lost on the road in the month was two days earlier, against the hosts Texas A&M on Aug. 27 (5-3).
- To open the 2018 season, Tech has gone unbeaten in its first four matches (2-0-2) marking the eighth straight season they are unbeaten in their first four games and the 12th time in program history.
- Seven times the team was unbeaten after six matches - 1994, 2011-15, and 2017.
- In his time as head coach at Tech, Adair has only lost 10 nonconference matches, seven in the postseason and only three during the regular season - one at Tennessee, Sept. 10, 2017 (3-1), and two matches in Blacksburg - Ohio State on Sept. 1, 2016 (2-1) and Nebraska on Sept. 9, 2011 (4-3).