Baylor Soccer Readies for Contest at Texas Tech

Thu Oct 3 10:38:56 CDT 2024

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 3, 2024

Baylor Soccer Readies for Contest at Texas Tech
Bears continue conference play in Lubbock
For more information contact: Katy Gilmore; 254-252-2182, katy_gilmore at baylor.edu<mailto:katy_gilmore at baylor.edu>

BAYLOR (6-4-3) at TEXAS TECH (9-2-1)

Oct. 4, 2024 • 7 p.m. CT • Watch: ESPN+ • Lubbock, Texas • John Walker Soccer Complex

Story lines

  *   Baylor is preparing to head to Lubbock, Texas to face the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. CT. BU only has one game this week instead of the usual Thursday-Sunday contests.
  *   The 2024 season marks the 28th season of the Baylor Soccer program. During that time, BU has won four Big 12 titles, advanced to two Elite Eights and had four All-Americans to go with countless All-Big 12 and Academic All-Big 12 honorees.
  *   This season also marks the third year of the Michelle Lenard coaching era, as she was selected as the Bears sixth head coach in program history in December of 2021.
  *   With the new Big 12 teams joining the conference this season, the Bears will only play 11 of the 15 other opponents this season. The Bears will face all four of the new schools, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. BU will not face Cincinnati, UCF, Kansas or Kansas State in regular season play.
  *   The Bears are 6-4-3 so far on the season, with three of BU’s losses coming against ranked opponents (No. 18 Mississippi State, No. 22 Iowa and No. 15 Oklahoma State). The Bears most recently recorded 1-1 draws against No. 16 Colorado and No. 22 TCU.
  *   Baylor has a 33 person roster this season and features 25 returners and eight newcomers.
  *   Returning to the squad for the first time since the 2022 season in fifth-year Marissa Gray. After working for the past year and applying to PT school, Gray re-joined the Bears to use her fifth year of eligibility. She hasn’t seen playing time since the 2019 season due to injury but returns to the pitch as a veteran on the backline.
  *   This season the Bears roster features two international student-athletes for the first time since the 2017 season. Salma Simonin returns to Baylor from Manchester, United Kingdom and Hilary Washington joins the Bears from Wellesley, Ontario, Canada.
  *   Twenty-three Bears have seen playing time so far this season with Hallie Augustyn leading the way with 1156 minutes played.
  *   Tyler Isgrig leads the Bears so far this season in points with 13, off of four goals and five assists. She has played the fifth most minutes so far this season (1053).
  *   Isgrig leads the Big 12 in all games with 51 shots on the season so far and is third in shots per game with 3.92. She is also tied for second in assists (5) and fifth in assists per game (.38) in the Big 12.
  *   The junior forward, Isgrig, currently sits tied for fifth in most career assists in BU’s record books with 17 so far with assists from both TCU and Baylor.
  *   Joining Isgrig with multiple goals this season are Ashley Merrill, Hallie Augustyn, Hannah Augustyn and Callie Conrad, while Kai Hayes has one goal. BU has two team goals this year from own goals, including one this week against Colorado.
  *   In the Bears’ 4-0 win over the Houston Cougars, four different Bears recorded a goal. That marked BU’s first game with four different goal scorers since Sept. 10, 2023.
  *   Azul Alvarez has posted four shutout wins this season, with a career-high eight saves twice this season, once against Iowa and once against Arizona.
  *   Alvarez and Conrad have picked up the Bears’ only Big 12 conference weekly award so far this season, being named Goalkeeper and Offensive Player of the Week (8/28).
  *   Baylor holds the all-time record over TTU, 18-9-4, after falling to the Red Raiders last season in Waco, 2-0.
  *   BU’s last win over Texas Tech came in 2021, when Baylor won 3-2.
  *   Baylor is currently sitting at No. 36 in the RPI rankings. The Big 12 as a whole has seven teams sitting in the top 50 in RPI rankings.

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Katy Gilmore | Associate Director of Athletic Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
O: 254-710-2743 | C: 254-252-2182

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