2007 NCAA CHAMPION | 2016 NCAA CHAMPION 1st PAC-12 PROGRAM TO WIN AN NCAA TITLE | 1st PAC-12 PROGRAM TO WIN 2 NCAA TITLES USC WOMEN’S SOCCER 2020-21 GAME NOTES NCAA 2nd rd: USC vs. Ole Miss (April 30, 3/6 pm PT/ET) - Wilmington, N.C. THIS WEEK - The USC women’s soccer team Two of USC’s three draws came against No. 2020-21 opens up NCAA Tournament play on Friday, 3 UCLA and the other was on the road at SCHEDULE/RESULTS facing Ole Miss in a second round matchup. defending national champions Stanford. The Trojans finished second in the always- Overall: 7-3-3 Pac-12: 6-3-1 NCAA 2ND RD - USC (7-3-3) vs. Ole Miss loaded Pac-12 conference, going 6-3-2 in (10-5-1) - Friday, April 30, 3/6 p.m. PT/ET league play. USC was 3-0-2 against ranked Home: 6-0-1 Road: 1-3-2 Neutral: 0-0 (Wilmington, N.C.) - NCAA Live Stream opponents this year and spent the entire Pac-12: Home: 5-0 Road: 1-3-2 season ranked in the Top 25. The Trojans’ lone HOW TO FOLLOW - Friday’s NCAA Tournament non-conference win came against BYU, who opener for the Trojans will be streamed live. grabbed the 12th overall seed in the bracket. Date Opponent Time/Result Links for the broadcasts and live stats can Feb. 4 Pepperdine Canceled be found on the women’s soccer schedule SERIES VS. OLE MISS - The Trojans and page at USCTrojans.com. In-game updates Rebels have faced off once in their history, will also be available on Twitter by following @ playing to a 1-1 draw in 2013 at a neutral site Feb. 15 No. 10 BYU W, 4-3 (OT) USC_Wsoccer. game in Minneapolis. Feb. 26 Arizona State* L, 0-1 SOCIAL MEDIA - Keep up with everything USC ALL-PAC-12 - Six Trojans earned recognition women’s soccer this year by following the on the All-Pac-12 awards last week, with Trojans on all of their social media platforms. Penelope Hocking highlighting the awards as Mar. 5 Oregon State* W, 2-0 You can follow @USCWsoccer on Instagram the conference’s Forward of the Year. She’s Mar. 7 Oregon* W, 1-0 and @USC_Wsoccer on Twitter, and like USC the second straight Trojan to win the award, Women’s Soccer on Facebook. joining teammate Tara McKeown, who won it in 2019. McKeown joined Hocking and Croix Mar. 12 Utah* L, 0-2 SEASON FINALE - The Trojans finished the Bethune on the All-Pac-12 first team, while Mar. 14 Colorado* L, 2-3 (2ot) regular season on April 16 at home against Samantha Bruder and Savannah DeMelo No. 3 UCLA, playing to a 2-2 draw with the were named to the second team, and Kaylie Bruins for the second time this year. Penelope Collins earned third team honors. Bethune Mar. 18 No. 3 UCLA (non-conf) D, 2-2 (2ot) Hocking and Tara McKeown each scored in was also named to the league’s All-Freshman the game for USC. McKeown scored twice in team. the first meeting between the teams, which Mar. 26 Arizona* W, 1-0 was a non-conference match on March 18. BETHUNE’S HAT TRICK - Croix Bethune scored her first career hat trick against the Apr. 2 No. 20 Washington* W, 5-0 POSTSEASON DRAW - The Trojans drew Golden Bears on the road late in the season. the eighth overall season in the 2020-21 The three goals were actually the first of Apr. 4 No. 21 Washington State* W, 1-0 postseason, earning a first-round bye in the Bethune’s career, as she missed her true 48-team tournament. USC’s second-round freshman season to an ACL injury. The Trojan Apr. 9 Stanford* D, 0-0 game will be held in Wilmington, N.C. on the midfielder also recorded an assist in the campus of UNC Wilmington. The subsequent game to finish with seven total points. She Apr. 11 Cal* W, 5-0 rounds will all be in Cary, N.C. at WakeMed earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week Soccer Park. honors for her efforts. It was the second Apr. 16 No. 3 UCLA* D, 2-2 (2ot) hat trick of the year for a USC player, as POSTSEASON HISTORY - USC is making its Penelope Hocking also recorded one against 19th NCAA Postseason appearance this year Washington. Apr. 30 Ole Miss/Bowling Green# 3 p.m. PT and seventh straight since Keidane McAlpine took over the program in 2014. USC has won PERRYMAN’S WEEKLY HONOR - Lily two National Championships in its history, Perryman earned Pac-12 Defensive Player # NCAA Tournament becoming the first Pac-12 program to win a of the Week honors after the Trojans’ two * Pac-12 game title in 2007 and then the first program from shutouts in the Bay Area the second to last Home games in BOLD the conference to win a second title in 2016 weekend of the year. Perryman played the full (McAlpine’s third year at the helm). The Trojans 110 minutes in the shutout at Stanford and have only missed the postseason nine times then a full 90 at Cal as the Trojans’ holding in the program’s 28 year history and have midfielder. Perryman also scored her first advanced past at least the first round in 13 of career goal in the win over Cal and added an its last 18 tournaments. Since 2015, USC has assist in the contest as well. She’s the first won at least one game in each tournament, Trojan to pick up defensive weekly honors this most recently making it to the fourth round season. (quarterfinals) of the 2019 tournament. HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE - The Trojans were ROAD TO THE POSTSEASON - In a season unbeatable at home this year, with a 6-0-1 already upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, record and five shutouts in the Coliseum this USC was in an unusual position early in season. After a 4-3 overtime win over BYU to the year after dropping three of its first six start the year, the Trojans shut out their next games in the shortened 2020-21 campaign. five opponents at home, for a 469 minute Following their road loss to Colorado on scoreless streak in the Coliseum, before March 15, however, the Trojans finished the finishing the regular season with a 2-2 draw year unbeaten, going 4-0-3 down the stretch. against No. 3 UCLA. 2020-21 USC WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH Draft earlier this year by the Orlando Pride. KEIDANE MCALPINE MILESTONE VICTORY - USC Head Coach Career Record (at USC): 161-83-30 (95-26-13) COLLEGIATE FIRSTS - Several Trojans Head Coach Keidane McAlpine enters his seventh season at USC Keidane McAlpine picked up his 100th win in 2021. In his six seasons at the helm for the Trojans, he has led as the Trojans’ manager earlier this season recorded collegiate firsts over the last several USC back to the NCAA Tournament each year, including guiding against Washington. He is the second USC weeks. Freshmen Angles Escobar and Katie the Trojans to the program’s second NCAA Title in 2016 and third coach to reach 100 wins with USC and is the Roditis each tallied their first collegiate goals quarterfinal appearance in 2019. fastest to do so. McAlpine has an overall against the Washington schools, and Escobar In 2014, McAlpine’s first season, the Trojans made the tournament coaching record of 167-86-33 in 14 seasons. also picked up her first assists with two helpers for the first time since 2010. Then in 2015 he led the team to the He is in his seventh season in charge at USC against Washington. Alexa Gonzalez and Mary program’s third NCAA Sweet 16 appearance. Then, after just two and has led the Trojans to at least 12 wins and Shin also recorded their first collegiate caps full seasons of rebuilding the program, he led the program to the in the Trojans’ win over Washington. Croix promised land, as they defeated No. 1-ranked West Virginia 3-1 in a postseason appearance each year, including the 2016 Women’s College Cup final. With the win, McAlpine put the a national title in 2016. Jim Millinder tops Bethune and Lily Perryman scored their first team in elite company, as the first Pac-12 program to win two titles, USC’s all-time wins list with 132 victories in 11 collegiate goals against Cal as well. and also just one of four programs nationally to win multiple titles seasons at Troy, reaching the 100 win plateau in the sport at the time. The Trojans followed that up by making it in his 8th year with USC. LAST YEAR - The Trojans made another NCAA to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2017 and in 2018 Tournament run last year, coming up just short USC played its way back into the Sweet 16 for the third time in five HOCKING NOTES - Penelope Hocking’s steady of the College Cup. USC finished the 2019 years under McAlpine, falling to eventual NCAA Champions Florida climb up the USC career lists continues as she season 17-5-1 overall, ending their campaign State in PK’s. During the 2019 season, USC reached as high as No. in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament 2 in the national polls and made it’s third ever run into the Elite 8, became just the second Trojan to reach the 40 falling to eventual national runners-up North Carolina on the road.