Cowgirl Soccer Hosts Kansas To Open Big 12 Play

#12 Kansas (6-0-2) at Oklahoma State (4-3-1)

Thurs., Sept. 18 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

TV/Video: ESPN+ (Dave Saunders & Anna Berghall)
Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio Pete 94.3 FM (Ryan Breeden & Jeremy Cook)
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About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 4-3-1 on the season and opens Big 12 Conference play Thursday night when the Cowgirls host 12th-ranked Kansas at Neal Patterson Stadium in their lone game of the week.
     • The Cowgirls are coming off a 14-5-3 season in 2024 in which they finished fifth in the Big 12 Conference standings with a 6-3-2 mark and earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, where OSU lost in the first round to No. 2 national seed Arkansas.
     • OSU returns seven players who started at least 10 games for the Cowgirls last season, including All-Big 12 performers Gracie Bindbeutel, Xcaret Pineda and Laudan Wilson.
     • Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 21st season at the helm in 2025 with a career record of 265-110-53 (.681).

Three Decades

     The 2024 season marks the 30th in program history, and Oklahoma State has built itself into one of women's college soccer's top programs.
     • Over its first 29 seasons, OSU posted a 348-190-66 (.631) record.
     • OSU has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. The Cowgirls have earned a NCAA tourney berth in 13 of the last 19 years (beginning in 2006) and seven of the last 12.
     • 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.
     • Six Cowgirls have earned All-America honors, with Yolanda Odenyo, AD Franch, Melinda Mercado, Haley Woodard, Kim Rodriguez and Grace Yochum on that elite list.

Last Week

OSU was victorious in its lone match of the week as the Cowgirls traveled to Commerce, Texas, and scored four goals in the first 18 minutes of the match against East Texas A&M en route to a 5-1 win. Ellie Geoffroy recorded the first multiple goal game of her career with a brace, while Reganne Morris, Emmy Hedden and Emma Alvord also found the back of the net for OSU.

Scouting The Opponent

     • Unbeaten Kansas is 6-0-2 on the season and brings a three-game winning streak to Stillwater. The Jayhawks have outscored their opponents 20-8 on the season.
     • Nate Lie is in his second season as KU's head coach and has led the Jayhawks to a 19-6-6 record. He previously coached seven seasons at Xavier and posted an 82-37-19 record.
     • The Cowgirls are 17-11-4 all time against Kansas and have won four consecutive meetings dating back to 2021. Last season, OSU was a 3-0 winner in Lawrence.

In The Rankings

     In the first official NCAA RPI of 2025, the Cowgirls check in at No. 31.
     OSU fell out of the national rankings following the opening week of the season after being ranked No. 22 in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll. That appearance marked the first time the Cowgirls had been ranked to open a season since 2021 when they were No. 16 in the preseason rankings.

Home Sweet Home

OSU has won 76 percent of its games in seven seasons at Neal Patterson Stadium, which opened in 2018. The Cowgirls are 52-14-7 on their current home turf, including a 2-1-1 mark this season.
OSU has gone undefeated at home in seven seasons in its history, the last time coming in 2019.

Injury Bug Biting

     Injuries have taken a huge toll on the Cowgirls this season, with numerous key players forced to go on the shelf. Among them:
     • All-Big 12 midfielder Laudan Wilson, OSU's leading scorer last season, has played in only one game (vs. Oklahoma on Aug. 17)
     • Gracie Bindbeutel, an All-Big 12 forward, was lost for the remainder of the season with a knee injury after starting the first five games
     • Starting midfielder Chloe Wright has missed two games
     • Lexi Lee has missed five games
     • Emmy Hedden missed the first seven games of the season
     • Juliette Perreault missed the first five games of the season
     • Leading goal scorer and All-Big 12 midfielder Xcaret Pineda was injured late in the first half against Oral Roberts and did not return to the game; she missed the East Texas A&M game

Four Corners

     OSU has recorded 53 corner kicks, an average of nearly seven per game.
     And the Cowgirls have taken advantage of those scoring opportunities as six of their 15 goals have come off corner kicks.
     Taryn Thibeau has recorded a career-high three assists, each coming off a corner kick, while Jazmin Brown's two goals are also a career best and came on headers off a corner kick. Sonora DeFini has also scored two headers off corners.

I Can Score Too

     Ellie Geoffroy has established herself as one of OSU's top defenders over the last three seasons, but against East Texas A&M, she proved she can be a scoring threat.
     Geoffroy recorded the first multi-goal game of career with a brace against the Lions as she netted OSU's first two goals of the game in a five-minute span in the first half. She also had an assist in the game.
     Entering the game, Geoffroy did not have a goal or assist on the season, and she previously had four career goals in 65 games.

Dandy Debut

Emmy Hedden had an immediate impact in her first collegiate game. After missing OSU's first seven games due to injury, Hedden was in the starting lineup against East Texas A&M and produced a goal and an assist to earn Big 12 Co-Freshman of the Week honors.
Hedden notched an assist on OSU's second goal then converted her only shot of the game as she scored on a 35-yard strike upper 90 for the first goal of her career.

#12 Kansas (6-0-2) at Oklahoma State (4-3-1)

Thurs., Sept. 18 • 7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla. • Neal Patterson Stadium

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Players Mentioned

Emma Alvord

Gracie Bindbeutel

Jazmin Brown

Sonora DeFini

Ellie Geoffroy

Emmy Hedden

Lexi Lee

Reganne Morris

Juliette Perreault

Xcaret Pineda

Taryn Thibeau

Laudan Wilson

Chloe Wright

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