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2021 SCHEDULE/RESULTS August LOUISVILLE 2021 WOMEN’S SOCCER 14 BALL STATE (Exhibition) W, 2-0 19 WESTERN MICHIGAN (ACCNX) 7:30 p.m. Louisville Cardinals vs. Western Michigan Broncos 26 JAMES MADISON (ACCNX) 7:30 p.m. Game 1 • Thur., August 19 • 7:30 p.m. ET • Louisville, Ky. • Lynn Stadium 29 NORTHERN KENTUCKY (ACCNX) 7:30 p.m. LOUISVILLE WESTERN MICHIGAN September 2 at St. Louis 7 p.m. 2020-21 Record: 5-7 (4-4 ACC)* 2020-21 Record: 6-2-2 (6-2-2 MAC)* Head Coach: Karen Ferguson-Dayes Head Coach: Sammy Boateng 5 WESTERN KENTUCKY (ACCNX) 7:30 p.m. Record at UofL: 187-168-37 (22nd year) Record at WMU: 14-12-3 (3rd year) 10 MICHIGAN (ACCNX) 5 p.m. Career Record: Same Career Record: Same 17 at Miami * (ACCNX) 7 p.m. Goals Leader: 4 players (1), most recent - Whitsett* Goals Leader: Korhorn (5/0.5 pg)* 23 at Syracuse * (ACC Network) 6 p.m. Assists Leader: Snyder (4/0.33 pg)* Assists Leader: Otteson (4/0.4 pg)* 26 FLORIDA STATE * (ACCNX) 1 p.m. Points Leader: Snyder (6/0.5 pg)* Points Leader: Korhorn (11/1.1 pg)* October Goalie: Kouzelos (53 saves, .803 SV%)* Goalie: Rogers (31 saves, .861 SV%) 2 WAKE FOREST * (ACCNX) 7 p.m. *2020-21 statistics 7 at Notre Dame * (ACCNX) 7 p.m. GETTING STARTED 10 NC STATE * (ACCNX) 1 p.m. KOUZELOS NAMED THIRD TEAM ALL-ACC 15 BOSTON COLLEGE * (ACCNX) 4 p.m. Sixth year goalkeeper Gabby Kouzelos was named All-ACC third team in the fall. She started all 12 21 at Virginia * (ACCNX) 7 p.m. matches and recorded a total of 53 saves with a .803 save percentage during the season. <She recorded a career-high ten saves in a 2-0 loss at Virginia on Oct. 15 last season. Her previous 24 at Clemson * (ACCNX) 1 p.m. career-high was nine saves two weeks prior at Florida State on Sept. 20. 28 DUKE * (ACC Network) 5 p.m. <Kouzelos ranks first all-time in Louisville program history with 6,194 minutes in goal and 28 31 ACC Tournament Quarterfinals TBA career shutouts. She ranks second all-time with a 1.00 goals against average. She has 192 saves in November her career, which is just seven shy of tying Irene Elder (1986-89) for fifth all-time at Louisville. <She was also named to the 2020-21 Academic All-District Division I women’s soccer team select- 5 ACC Tournament Semifinals TBA ed by CoSIDA. 7 ACC Tournament Final TBA *ACC Game REPLACING EMINA Emina Ekic made history when she was selected by Racing Louisville FC with the fifth pick in the 2021 NWSL Draft in January. She is the first UofL player to be selected in the NWSL Draft. As a senior, Ekic became the first player in program history to earn ACC Offensive Player of the Year QUICK FACTS honors and the first Louisville player to be named conference offensive player of the year since 2013 when Christine Exeter was named American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year. <She started all nine games last fall and led the team and ranked second in the ACC with seven Location Louisville, Ky. goals and 17 points. She played a role in 10 of the Cardinals’ 11 goals in the fall. Founded / Enrollment 1798 / 22,298 <Despite not competing with the Cardinals in the spring, she had seven of the Cardinals’ 12 goals, Nickname / Colors Cardinals / Red and Black 17 of the 32 points and three of eight assists last season. Conference Atlantic Coast Home Field Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium RETURNING PRODUCTION Sixth year goalkeeper Gabby Kouzelos returns after playing every minute in goal last season, but President Dr. Neeli Bendapudi the Cardinals return just four players that scored a goal last season as Delaney Snyder, Taylor Vice President for Athletics Vince Tyra Kerwin, Morgan Bentley and Maisie Whitsett all scored one goal each. Louisville returns just two Asst. AD/SWA Amy Calabrese players that recorded an assist last season as Snyder led the team with four and Kerwin added one. Head Coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes (UConn, ‘93) Assistant Coach Nick Stirrett COACH FERGUSON-DAYES ENTERS HER 22ND YEAR AT THE HELM Head coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes is entering her 22nd year at the helm. She is the winningest Assistant Coach Hunter Norton coach in program history with a career record of 187-168-37. Performance Analyst Declan Doherty Director of Operations Jing Hughley LOUISVILLE’S PROJECTED FORMATION All-Time Record 272-338-47 (36th yr.) All-Time NCAA Tournament Record 3-6, Six Appearances Important Phone Numbers Athletics Department (502) 852-5732 Women’s Soccer Office (502) 852-7547 Sports Information Office (502) 852-6581 SID - Nick Evans c: (502) 807-9345 email: [email protected] Sports Information Office // University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 // GoCards.com Phone: (502) 852-3085 // Fax: (502) 852-7401 Twitter: @ULWomensSoccer 2021 LOUISVILLE CARDINALS WOMEN’S SOCCER LOUISVILLE vs. WESTERN MICHIGAN | AUGUST 19, 2021 ABOUT THE BRONCOS Western Michigan finished the 2020-21 season on a four-game winning streak with a 6-2-2 overall GAMEDAY INFO record. As a team, the Broncos registered 15 goals and 55 saves through 10 games. The Broncos’ Date: Thursday, August 19 attack is led by fifth-year forward Bailey Korhorn, who scored five goals last season. Time: 7:30 p.m. ET Morgan Ottenson and Jenna Blackburn each led the team with four assists and fifth-year goalkeep- Site: Louisville, Ky. | Lynn Stadium er Maggie Rogers returns with 31 saves, one shutout and a 0.861 save percentage. Video: ACCNX (Jeff Greer, play-by-play; Casey Whitfield, <Series History: Louisville is 0-0-1 all-time against Western Michigan with the lone meeting ending in a 1-1 tie at Louisville on Sept. 12, 1998. analyst) Series History: 0-0-1 (T1, 0-0-1 home, 0-0-0 away, 0-0-0 neutral) OPENING THE SEASON Last Meeting: T, 1-1 (Sept. 12, 1998 at Louisville) Under head coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes, Louisville is 18-1-2 in season openers and 14-6-1 in home UofL National Ranking: NR openers. The Cardinals have won 16 of the last 17 season openers, including their last four. The Team Statistics CARDS* WMU* lone loss in a season opener was a 2-1 defeat at UT Martin on August 30, 2002. Louisville has won nine straight home openers and is 7-0 in home openers at Lynn Stadium, which opened in 2014. Goals/Shot attempts 12-105 15-108 Goals per game 1.00 1.50 LOUISVILLE PICKED 8TH IN ACC PRESEASON POLL Shot pct. .114 .139 Louisville is picked eighth in the ACC preseason poll with 77 points, just eight points shy of Shots on goal/Attempts 44-105 43-108 seventh-place Virginia Tech (85). Florida State was voted the preseason favorite with 11 first place SOG pct. .419 .398 votes, while North Carolina was picked second and Virginia was picked third. Shots per game 8.8 10.8 Assists 8 13 ROSTER BREAKDOWN Penalty Goals/Kicks 1-1 0-0 Louisville’s roster features eight seniors/grads, three juniors, five sophomores and 10 freshmen. Overtime Goals 0 n/a Corner Kicks 42 42 NEWBIES TO CONTRIBUTE Expect many of the 10 Louisville freshmen to contribute right away. In fact, in the Cardinals’ 2-0 Fouls 89 63 exhibition win over Ball State on Saturday, five freshmen (Nina Nicosia, Hayley Howard, Julia Yellow Cards 6 2 Simon, Anouk Denton, Brooke Dardano) got the start, while seven saw game action. Red Cards 0 0 *2020-21 Statistics WHITSETT STRIKES Senior midfielder/forward Maisie Whitsett is the Cards’ active career leader with 13 goals, 29 KAREN FERGUSON-DAYES points and six game-winning goals. Karen Ferguson-Dayes is the <Whitsett scored her lone goal last season in the spring season opener, a 1-0 win at Dayton, on a winningest coach in Louisville history. penalty kick in the 16-minute mark of the match. She is 2-2 on penalty kicks in her career. Her last She took a struggling soccer program at penalty kick goal was also against Dayton, a 5-2 win on Sept. 12, 2019. the University of Louisville and molded it into a top-25 program. BENTLEY LOOKS TO BUILD ON FRESHMAN CAMPAIGN In 2000 when she was named the eighth head coach in program history, Sophomore midfielder Morgan Bentley looks to build on a solid freshman campaign after playing in the situation that Ferguson-Dayes all 12 matches with 11 starts last season. She recorded her first and only collegiate goal at Virginia inherited with the Cardinals was the Tech, which served as the game-winning goal. Bentley had seven shots on the year, three of which challenge of her career. The program were on goal. has just one winning season in the previous 15 years. Nobody believed the process of DELANEY DISHING DIMES turning the Louisville women’s soccer program into a winner Senior Delaney Snyder led the Cardinals with four assists last season. Prior to last year, she had is one that would occur overnight, but after three seasons at just two career assists. In the season opener at Miami, she scored the first goal of the season, the helm, Ferguson-Dayes guided the Cardinals to their first which marked her eighth career goal. winning season in 11 years with a 12-4 record in 2004. <The forward from Moon Township, Pa., has eight goals, six assists, 22 points and four Ferguson-Dayes’ appointment and success here at game-winning goals for her career.