Sunday, August 24
Dallas, Texas
7pm CT
SMU
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Women's Soccer Set To Face Southern In Washburne | Sunday 7 pm CT
Aug 23 | Women's Soccer
SMU (2-1-0, 0-0-0 ACC) vs Southern (1-1-0, 0-0-0 SWAC)
Washburne Stadium – Dallas, TexasÂ
Sunday, Aug. 24 Â | Â 7 p.m. CT | SMU Gameday Promotions
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DALLAS (SMU) – SMU returns to Washburne Stadium on Sunday for a matchup against the Southern Jaguars as the Mustangs will look to extend their winning streak to three.
The match will kick off at 7 p.m. CT and will be aired on ACCNX. Fans can enjoy free admission to all regular-season SMU women's soccer home games.
Sunday's match is Back to School Night, which will feature SMU posters, schedule cards, and prize wheel items as giveaways, as well as an autograph signing session with the team after the game.
Forward Sammy Nieves is coming off a three-assist game against North Texas. She is the first Mustang to record three assists in a game since Hannah Fleet had three against Abilene Christian on Sept. 11, 2016.
Nieves is currently tied for first in the ACC in total assists and tied for third in the NCAA.
After scoring the opening goal against UNT, freshman Lindasy Nicholson has now scored in back-to-back games and is now tied for the team lead in goals. Nicholson is the first freshman to score in back-to-back games since Nyah Rose did multiple times in 2023. Â
The Mustangs added nine newcomers to their 2025 roster, five freshmen and four transfers. Head coach Nicole Nelson also brought in two new assistant coaches in Daniel O'Hare and Callie McKinney.
In the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll, eight ACC teams landed in the top 25, the most of any conference. ACC teams claimed the top three spots with Duke (No.1), Stanford (No.2) and Florida State (No.3) leading the way. Notre Dame (No. t-7) and Wake Forest (No.10) rounded out the five teams in the top-10, followed by North Carolina (No.12), Virginia Tech (No.15) and Virginia (No.17). Clemson also received votes.
In the ACC Preseason Coaches Poll, the Mustangs were picked to finish 12th overall. The top-10 teams in the poll all were ranked or received votes in the United Soccer Coaches Poll.
This season will mark the 40th year of women's soccer on the Hilltop and the fourth under head coach Nicole Nelson. The Mustangs are 17-8-3 at home under Nelson.
// THE MATCH UP
Washburne Stadium – Dallas, TexasÂ
Sunday, Aug. 24 Â | Â 7 p.m. CT | SMU Gameday Promotions
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DALLAS (SMU) – SMU returns to Washburne Stadium on Sunday for a matchup against the Southern Jaguars as the Mustangs will look to extend their winning streak to three.
The match will kick off at 7 p.m. CT and will be aired on ACCNX. Fans can enjoy free admission to all regular-season SMU women's soccer home games.
Sunday's match is Back to School Night, which will feature SMU posters, schedule cards, and prize wheel items as giveaways, as well as an autograph signing session with the team after the game.
Forward Sammy Nieves is coming off a three-assist game against North Texas. She is the first Mustang to record three assists in a game since Hannah Fleet had three against Abilene Christian on Sept. 11, 2016.
Nieves is currently tied for first in the ACC in total assists and tied for third in the NCAA.
After scoring the opening goal against UNT, freshman Lindasy Nicholson has now scored in back-to-back games and is now tied for the team lead in goals. Nicholson is the first freshman to score in back-to-back games since Nyah Rose did multiple times in 2023. Â
The Mustangs added nine newcomers to their 2025 roster, five freshmen and four transfers. Head coach Nicole Nelson also brought in two new assistant coaches in Daniel O'Hare and Callie McKinney.
In the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll, eight ACC teams landed in the top 25, the most of any conference. ACC teams claimed the top three spots with Duke (No.1), Stanford (No.2) and Florida State (No.3) leading the way. Notre Dame (No. t-7) and Wake Forest (No.10) rounded out the five teams in the top-10, followed by North Carolina (No.12), Virginia Tech (No.15) and Virginia (No.17). Clemson also received votes.
In the ACC Preseason Coaches Poll, the Mustangs were picked to finish 12th overall. The top-10 teams in the poll all were ranked or received votes in the United Soccer Coaches Poll.
This season will mark the 40th year of women's soccer on the Hilltop and the fourth under head coach Nicole Nelson. The Mustangs are 17-8-3 at home under Nelson.
// THE MATCH UP
- Sunday's match will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.
- Since 2021, SMU has won its first two home games of the season.
- Southern is led by head coach Jeremy Fontenot, who is in his 10th season at the helm of the Jaguars and boasts a record of 45-90-16. Fontenot has spent his entire head coaching career at Southern.
- Southern is 1-1-0 this season and is coming off a 4-0 loss to McNeese State on the road. SU defeated Southern Miss in its season opener. Â
- Behind a brace from Nicole Stryker, the SMU women's soccer program had an offensive explosion and survived a late rally, defeating North Texas 4-3.
- Lindsay Nicholson got things going for SMU as she sent a rocket into the top left corner to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead on a feed from Sydney Japic. The freshman has now scored in back-to-back games.
- Nicole Stryker scored her first and second career goals to put SMU up 3-0 early in the second half.
- Sammy Nieves earned her third assist of the game on a feed to Nyah Rose who scored her 17th career goal and the first this season.
- SMU led 4-1 before UNT scored twice late in the game, but the Mustangs held on for the win.
- Aubrey Brown finished the game with a career high six saves.
- Entering their second season in the ACC, the Mustangs' 18-game schedule will feature eight non-conference games and 10 conference games. SMU will face six teams that made the NCAA Tournament last season, including three teams that made the College Cup.
- SMU is scheduled to face seven teams this season that were ranked or received votes in the 2025 United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll.
- SMU began the 2025 season on the road for the first time since 2019.
- The Mustangs have allowed one or fewer goals in 40 of 57 games played under Head Coach Nicole Nelson. SMU achieved the feat in nine of its 17 matches last season.
- Since 2022, SMU has shut out 18 opponents. The Mustangs recorded their first shutout of the season in their home opener against NSU (2-0). Â
- SMU holds an impressive 25-9-4 record at home since the 2021 season and is 17-8-3 under Nicole Nelson. The Mustangs were 6-5-1 inside Washburne Stadium last season.
- Sixteen of SMU's home wins in that stretch have been shutouts.
- Prior to the start of the season, Nyah Rose was ranked 48th in TopDrawerSoccer's top-100 players list.
- Rose scored her first goal of the season and the game winning goal against UNT.
- Rose is coming off another standout season for the Mustangs. Rose was a 2024 Hermann Trophy Watch List honoree and was named Third Team All-ACC for her play last season.
- Rose was second on the team with five goals in only 11 games played last season. Rose scored the team's only goal in a 1-1 draw versus the 2024 ACC tournament champions, Florida State. Three of her five goals occurred during ACC play.
- As a freshman, she was named First-Team All-South Region, All-AAC First Team, Co-Rookie of the Year and was named to the AAC All-Rookie Team and AAC Championship All-Tournament Team. She led AAC in goals scored with 11.Â
- Rose has now scored 17 goals in her SMU career. She currently ranks 10th all-time in goals per game in program history (0.53).Â
- Sydney Japic, Hali Hartman and Aubrey Brown were the only Mustangs to play the full 90 in every match this season.
- Japic made her SMU debut against Wake, while Hartman, who led SMU in minutes last season with 1,438, played the full 90 in 17 consecutive games dating back to last season.
- Brown made her first career start in goal for SMU in the season opener and ended the game with two saves.
- Twenty-one different Mustangs have made an appearance in the game this season.
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