No. 11 Virginia Opens 2017 Season At UNCW Friday
Aug. 17, 2017
| No. 11 Virginia (0-0-0) at UNCW (0-0-0) | |
| Date & Time | Aug. 18 – 7 p.m. |
| Location | Wilmington, N.C. | UNCW Stadium |
| Match Notes | UVA Match Notes |
| Multimedia | Live Stats | Live Video |
| Additional Information | Buy UVA Home Tickets | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 11 Virginia (0-0-0) women’s soccer team opens the 2017 season on Friday (Aug. 18), traveling to face UNCW (0-0-0) at 7 p.m. at the UNCW Stadium in Wilmington, N.C.
HOW TO TRACK THE MATCH:
Friday night’s match will be broadcast through a live video stream provided by UNCW and through live stats. Links to both are available at www.VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also follow the action through the program’s official Twitter account by following @UVAWSoccer.
THE SERIES WITH UNCW
– UVA opens the season with UNCW for the second time in three seasons
– Virginia opened the 2015 season at home against the Seahawks, posting an 8-0 victory
– UVA and UNCW also faced in the NCAA Second Round that season, winning 2-0 at home
– Virginia leads the all-time series with UNCW 3-0-0 with all three meetings in Charlottesville
HOOS BACK
– UVA returns 15 letterwinners and six starters from last year’s squad that advanced to the Round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament
– Back are three players who earned post-season honors from the ACC – Veronica Latsko (Venetia, Pa.) and Alissa Gorzak (Naperville, Ill.) who were All-ACC third team selections, and Zoe Morse (East Lansing, Mich.) an All-Freshman honoree
– UVA returners contributed 29-of-52 goals scored a year ago and 28-of-41 assists
– Among those are three of the top five goal scorers and three of the top five players in assists from 2016
TALENTED NEWCOMERS JOIN CAVALIERS
– UVA has welcomed four newcomers in the class of 2017: Laurel Ivory (Surfside, Fla.), Taryn Torres (Frisco, Texas), Sofia Weiner (Evergreen, Colo.) and Sydney Zandi (West Chester, Pa.)
– The class ranked No. 7 nationally prior to Ivory, a class of 2018 prospect, who graduated early to enroll at UVA
– With the addition of Ivory, the class moved into the top 5 nationally in the recruiting class rankings
– Ivory served as starting keeper for the U17 World Cup Team and a member of the U20 team, she also was the top-ranked keeper in and No. 7 player overall in the 2018 class
– Torres was a member of the U17 YNT and ranked as the No. 15 player in the IMG Top 150 of 2017
– Weiner was a member of the U18 YNT and ranked as the No. 74 player in the IMG Top 150 of 2017
– Zandi played on the U17 World Cup Team with Ivory and ranked as the No. 13 player in the IMG Top 150 of 2017
TWO HOOS GRAB PRESEASON HONORS
– Latsko, a senior forward, was named a preseason All-ACC selection in a vote of league coaches, while Ivory was named to the Freshman Best XI preseason team by Top Drawer Soccer.
UP NEXT FOR THE HOOS
– UVA will continue to play on the road next week, facing No. 1 West Virginia on Thursday (Aug. 24)
– It will be the first meeting vs. West Virginia since 2011, a meeting UVA won 2-1 at home
– UVA leads the all-time series with West Virginia 9-3-2 and leads 3-2-1 in matches at WVU