DALLAS (SMU) – The SMU women's soccer program begins a three-game home stand by welcoming Miami to Washburne Stadium on Sunday.

The match will kick off at 1 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 Peruna's Pals Day. SMU Key Chains will be available for all Peruna's Pals members at the marketing table near the entrance to the stadium. More information on Peruna's Pals can be found here.

The Mustangs, after coming off a 4-0 victory on the road at Pitt, the team's fifth shutout of the season. SMU is 5-1-1 at home this season and is outscoring its opponents 11-2.

SMU has recorded 171 shots and scored 20 goals this season, which ranks seventh and 10th in the ACC, respectively.  

The Mustangs rank 16th in the nation in corner kicks per game at 7.1 and have totaled 78, the second most in the ACC this season.

Nyah Rose leads SMU in goals scored with four after recording a brace against Pitt. Rose has scored 20 goals in her career.  

Twelve different Mustangs have scored a goal this season, while Rose and Nicole Stryker each have a brace this season.
 
Sammy Nieves leads the team with five assists and is currently tied for 24th in the NCAA and eighth in the ACC in total assists.

Liz Eddy leads SMU in total shots with 32, 10th in the ACC, and in shots per game at 3.20, ninth in the ACC.  Nyah Rose has taken 28 shots with a team high of 15 on goal.  

The Mustangs ended the non-conference portion of their schedule with a record of 6-2-0 and four shutout victories.

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, Daniel O'Hare and Callie McKinney.

SMU enters the game with an RPI ranking of 78. Fourteen of the 17 ACC teams are ranked inside the top 100 and has eight inside the top-20.  Miami enters the game with an RPI of 50.

In the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll, seven ACC teams landed in the top 25, tied for most of any conference. ACC teams claimed the top three spots with Virginia (No. 1), Notre Dame (No.2) and Stanford (No. 3) leading the way. Florida State (No. 6) and Duke (No. 9) round out the five teams in the top 10 followed by Wake Forest (No.19) and North Carolina (No.22). Both Louisville and California received votes.

In the ACC Preseason Coaches Poll, the Mustangs were picked to finish 12th overall. The top-10 teams in the poll were all ranked or received votes in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason 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 21-9-3 at home under Nelson.

// THE MATCH UP

• Sunday's match will be the second meeting between SMU and Miami. Last season, the Mustangs drew Miami 3-3 in Coral Gables as Nyah Rose scored one goal in the game.
• SMU has already surpassed last season's win total with seven this year.  
• SMU is 1-1-1 in ACC play this season and is currently eighth in the conference with four points.

// SCOUTING THE OPPONENT

• Miami is led by head coach Ken Masuhr, who is in his second season at the helm of the Hurricanes and boasts a record of 11-12-5. Miami is Masuhr's first career head coaching stop.    
• Miami enters the match with an RPI ranking of 50 and a record of 6-4-1. The Hurricanes are still searching for their first ACC win of the season (0-3-0).  Miami is 2-3-0 on the road this season.   
• Ciara Alarcon paces the Hurricanes with 10 points on three goals and a team-high four assists while Brie Severns has netted three goals on the season.

// LAST TIME OUT

• Highlighted by Nyah Rose's brace, the SMU women's soccer program had an offensive explosion, shutting out Pitt 4-0.
• SMU scored four second-half goals in the span of 17 minutes to earn its first ACC win of the season.
• Rose recorded her fourth multi-goal game of her career, while Paxton Bock had her first career multi-assist game with two.
• The four goals scored by the Mustangs are the most goals scored in a road ACC game by SMU since it joined the conference. It also marked the second time SMU has scored four goals this season (4-3 W at North Texas).
• The last time SMU shut out an opponent on the road was a 2-0 shutout at FAU on Oct. 12, 2023.

 // LOCK DOWN DEFENSE

• The Mustangs have allowed one or fewer goals in 46 of 64 games played under Head Coach Nicole Nelson. SMU achieved the feat in eight of its 11 games this season.
• SMU has recorded five shutouts this season, the most since 2023. SMU has only allowed two goals in its last five games and is outscoring opponents 9-2.
• Since 2022, SMU has shut out 22 opponents under Nelson. This season, SMU has recorded five shutouts and is outshooting teams 171 to 113 and outscoring them 20-10

// WINNING AT WASHBURNE

• SMU holds an impressive 29-10-4 record at home since the 2021 season and is 21-9-3 under Nelson.
• SMU is 5-1-0 at home this year and is outscoring opponents 11-2 inside Washburne. Four of the team's home victories have been shutouts.  The last time SMU started a season 5-0-0 at home was in 2018.
• Seventeen of SMU's home wins in that stretch have been shutouts.
• In the team's first three home games, SMU rattled off 27 shots in each.
• SMU is outshooting opponents 126-37 in six home games this season.  

// RECORD BOOK ROSE

• Nyah Rose has been SMU's top goal scorer over the last couple of seasons and was ranked 48^th in TopDrawerSoccer's top-100 players list at the start of the season.
• This season, she leads the team in goals scored with four. She ranks 15^th in the nation and second in the ACC in game-winning goals with three.
• Rose recorded her first brace of the season against Pitt leading the team to a 4-0 victory. She has now recorded four multi-goal games and has totaled 20 goals in her SMU career.
• Rose scored her first goal of the season and the game-winning goal against UNT.
• Rose found the back of the net once again in the team's 3-0 victory over HCU.
• 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. 

// A PREMIERE PLAYMAKER

• Sammy Nieves has been SMU's player maker this season, leading the team with five assists. She currently ranks 32nd in the NCAA in total assists. Nieves is tied for the team lead in points with nine.
• Nieves had three assists against North Texas and is the first Mustang to record three assists in a game since Hannah Fleet had three against Abilene Christian on Sept. 11, 2016.
• She recorded her second multi-assist game of the season with two against HCU.
• The senior has recorded 15 assists in her career.  

// LEADING BY EXAMPLE

• Captain Lydia Ungashick has been leading by example all season long, as she is second on the team in goals scored with three. She also has one assist and is third on the team in total points (7)
• She scored SMU's first ACC goal of the year against Syracuse.

// FRESHMAN STANDOUT

• Freshman Lindsay Nicholson is third on the team in goals scored with two and  in total shots with 17.
• She scored in back-to-back games against NSU and UNT, becoming the first freshman to achieve this feat since Nyah Rose did so multiple times in 2023.