No. 25 Virginia Hosts NC State For Senior Night

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 25 Virginia women’s soccer team (8-4-0, 1-4-0 ACC) returns home to host NC State (3-8-2, 0-4-1 ACC) on Thursday night. Kick is set for 7 p.m. and it will be the program’s Senior Night with ceremonies honoring the team’s seniors prior to kick.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
Thursday’s match will be broadcast on ACC Network and will be streamed at ESPN.com and through the ESPN app. Live stats will also be available and links are at VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get updates by following the program’s official account on X (@UVAWomenSoccer).

TICKETS AVAILABLE
Tickets are available for purchase at UVATix.com. General admission tickets are $8 and reserved seats are $12 if available.

QUICK KICKS

• The Cavaliers are coming off a challenging stretch of the schedule and moved up to No. 15 in the RPI despite a loss last week at No. 2 Duke – a team that currently sits at No. 8 in the RPI
• Virginia’s schedule features five teams currently ranked in the top 21 of the RPI with four of those coming in the most recently completed stretch of games – Wake Forest (2), Notre Dame (21), at UNC (1) and at Duke (8)
• Five of the next four opponents for UVA also are among the tops in the nation as they rank among the top 52 in RPI – SMU (52), at FSU (14), Clemson (43) and at Virginia Tech (32)
• Thursday night will be Senior Night for the Hoos with Virginia honoring seven seniors in ceremonies prior to kick against NC State
• Virginia will honor Emma Dawson, Samar Guidry, Chloe Japic, Moira Kelley, Camryn Miller, Degen Miller and Alexis Theoret in ceremonies prior to the start of Thursday night’s contest
• Yuna McCormack brought home a bronze medal after playing with the US U20 Women’s Youth National Team in the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia over the last few weeks
• McCormack returned to the pitch for the Hoos at UNC – her first game since the opening week – and scored her first goal of the season to give the Hoos a 2-1 lead at the time over the Tar Heels
• Maggie Cagle hit the game-winning goal at VCU for her 17th career goal and eighth game winner. She ranks second in the ACC and 24th nationally in game-winning goals this season.
• Cagle has been efficient as the UVA goal leader with six goals out of 10 shots on frame this season
• Twelve different Hoos have found the net this season as the Virginia offense has been spreading the ball around in 2024 and 10 different players have assisted on those 12 goals
• Alexis Theoret has been a key cog in the ball distribution with a team-leading five assists to date

THE SERIES WITH NC STATE

• Virginia and NC State have faced each other 45 times with the Cavaliers leading the series 29-13-3
• The Cavaliers lead the series 15-4-0 in games played at home and 11-2-0 in games played at Klöckner
• NC State won the last meeting 2-1 in Raleigh in the 2023 season, the first win by the Wolfpack since the 2009 season
• Virginia holds a 10-1-2 lead in the series dating back to that 2009 season meeting between the teams