Thursday, October 26
Los Angeles, CA
4:00 PM
UCLA
vs
California
Ayo Oke
Photo by: Don Liebig, UCLA Photography
Women's Soccer Hosts Pivotal Pac-12 Games
October 25, 2023 | Women's Soccer
No. 2 UCLA (14-1, 8-0) vs. California (7-3-6, 4-0-4)
Date: Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 โ 4 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Talent: Christian Miles
Internet Radio: uclabruins.com
Talent: Nick Koop
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
No. 2 UCLA (14-1, 8-0) vs. No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1)
Date: Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023 โ 12 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Talent: Christian Miles, Tracey Baileyย
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
BRUINS HOST BAY AREA SCHOOLS ย ย
With just three games remaining in the regular season, No. 2 UCLA (14-1, 8-0 in the Pac-12, winners of 11 straight) hosts California (7-3-6, 4-0-4) on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 4pm and No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1) on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 12pm. Both games are the opening games in doubleheaders with the UCLA men's soccer team. The Bruin men host Washington on Thursday at 7pm and Oregon State on Sunday at 3pm. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
ALUMNI WEEKEND ย ย
UCLA will welcome women's soccer alumni back to campus on Sunday during Homecoming weekend. The 2013 squad, UCLA's first-ever NCAA women's soccer championship team, will be honored at halftime of Sunday's game on its 10-year anniversary. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
PIVOTAL PAC-12 GAMES AHEAD ย ย
The Pac-12 leading Bruins control their own destiny in the hunt for the conference championship and can clinch their 13th Pac-12 title this weekend with a pair of victories over fourth-place California and second-place Stanford. Entering this week's play, with three games to go, UCLA leads the conference with 24 points, two points ahead of second-place Stanford (22). USC (17), Calfiornia (16) and Arizona State (16) are still mathematically alive in the race but have no margin for error. A UCLA win over California on Thursday would assure the Bruins of no worse than a second-place finish. A weekend sweep or a tie against Cal and win against Stanford would secure the title for UCLA. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
UCLA SWEEPS ARIZONA SCHOOLS ON ROAD ย ย
UCLA continued its hot streak, sweeping the Arizona schools in its final road trip of the season. The Bruins started the weekend by scoring three second-half goals in a 4-1 win at Arizona on Oct. 19. UCLA, which outshot the Wildcats, 19-2, received goals from Reilyn Turner, Lexi Wright and Ally Cook and benefited from an own goal in the 14th minute after a save on Wright's shot was deflected off a Wildcat defender. Turner provided the heroics in the 1-0 win at Arizona State on Oct. 22, scoring on a header off an Ally Lemos corner kick in the 89th minute. Goalkeeper Neeku Purcell made three saves and earned her sixth solo shutout of the season. ย ย
DEFENSIVE DOMINANCE ย ย
Defender Lilly Reale was selected the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after leading a Bruin defensive effort that shut out Arizona State and held the Sun Devils and Wildcats to a combined seven shots. Reale's selection was the fifth of a UCLA defender in the last six weeks. Quincy McMahon won a record four Defensive Player of the Week honors prior to Reale. UCLA's defense has recorded 10 shutouts, held opponents to single digit shots in 14 of 15 games and an average of 4.5 shots per game. The Bruins hold a team goals against average of 0.53. ย ย ย ย
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ย ย
UCLA enters this week on a 20-game home unbeaten streak. The Bruins' last home loss came on Nov. 12, 2021, meaning Margueritte Aozasa has never lost a home game as Bruin head coach. During the streak, UCLA is 19-0-1 with 14 shutouts, including five in a row. This season, the Bruins have outscored their opponents at Wallis Annenberg Stadium, 24-1. They have also outshot opponents at home by a 174-19 count. ย ย ย
TURNING OVER THE RECORD BOOKSย
After scoring seven goals in her last five games, Reilyn Turner has moved into fifth place on UCLA's career goals list with 42 and into sole possession of sixth place on the career points list with 98. She also moved into a tie for fifth place in career game-winning goals with 16 and has three game-winners in the last four games. Turner also ranks third at UCLA with three career hat tricks, behind only Traci Arkenberg and Sydney Leroux. This season, Turner leads the team in scoring with 10 goals and 25 points and is ranked second in assists with five. She has been deadly in conference games, leading all Pac-12 players with seven goals and 16 points in conference play. The senior from Aliso Viejo, Calif. has secured a fourth consecutive 20-point season. ย ย
CORNER CONNECTIONย
It would be hard to find a more iconic duo late in a game than Ally Lemos and Reilyn Turner. With time running out in a scoreless contest Sunday at Arizona State, Lemos sent a corner kick into the box, and Turner headed it home for the game-winner in the 89th minute. It was far from the first time they had connected on a corner; Lemos' last three assists have been corner kicks that Turner has headed into goal, most famously in the NCAA Championship with 16 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Seven of Lemos' 11 career assists have come on corner kicks, including her last four. ย ย ย ย
ALLY KEEPS COOKIN'ย
With eight goals in 2023, graduate forward Ally Cook has equaled her single-season best total for goals scored, set in 2021 at Oregon. Cook, who came to UCLA in 2022 as a graduate transfer in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, has totaled 13 goals as a Bruin, adding to her total of 17 as a Duck. Her 30 career goals rank her second on the current UCLA squad behind only Reilyn Turner (42). Cook ranks second on the team and fourth in the conference with eight goals. She is also second on the team and seventh in the Pac-12 with 17 points. Her five goals in conference play rank second overall in the Pac-12. ย ย ย ย
THE WRIGHT STUFFย
Junior forward Lexi Wright has put together another strong season, ranking third on the team in goals (five) and points (13). In Pac-12 play, she ranks second in the conference with 11 points, fifth with three assists and sixth with four goals. Last season, she ranked third on the team in all scoring categories, totaling 22 points on eight goals and six assists, and she was named to the College Cup All-Tournament team after leading the Bruin comeback in the NCAA Championship game.ย
MCMAHON SETS PAC-12 RECORDS ย ย
Junior Quincy McMahon became the first player in conference history to earn four Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week awards in one season when she won her fourth honor in a five week span on Oct. 16. She has also extended her conference-leading career total of Defensive Player of the Week awards to five. McMahon has also been a big asset offensively, leading the Pac-12 in assists with seven. ย ย ย
FONTES OUT FOR SEASON ย
Graduate midfielder Sunshine Fontes suffered an ACL injury on Sept. 28 at Washington, prematurely ending her season. Fontes finishes the year with five goals and 11 points in just nine games. She scored three goals in the win over Long Beach State on Sept. 7, moving up to No. 3 on UCLA's all-time list for career hat tricks with two. The 2022 All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-12 honoree finishes with 21 goals, 13 assists and 55 points in her career. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
SIX RANKED IN TOP 50 ย ย
UCLA leads the nation with six players in the Top 50 and four players in the Top 25 of Top Drawer Soccer's Midseason Top 100. Defender Lilly Reale tops the Bruins with a No. 10 ranking, followed closesly by forward Ally Cook, who is No. 12. Forward Reilyn Turner (No. 17), defender Quincy McMahon (No. 22), midfielder Ally Lemos (No. 39) and defender Ayo Oke (No. 44) also made the Top 50. ย ย ย ย
NO SHOT AGAINST BRUIN DEFENSE ย ย
UCLA has held opponents to single-digit shots in 14 of the team's 15 games and limited its last five opponents to a total of just 13 shots. The Bruins' lockdown defense, which has a team goals against average of 0.53, starts goalkeeper Neeku Purcell, center backs Lilly Reale and Jayden Perry and outside backs Quincy McMahon and Ayo Oke. The Bruins have totaled 10 shutouts this season and have allowed just one goal in the month of October. ย ย ย
PK POWER ย ย
UCLA has taken a program record and nation-leading 10 penalty kicks this season and hit its first nine before missing on its 10th on Oct. 22. Jayden Perry leads the team with three penalty kick goals, followed by Reilyn Turner and Sunshine Fontes, who each have two. Emma Egizii and America Frias have made one each. ย ย
ROLLING IN THE DEEP ย ย
UCLA's strength lies in its depth. The Bruins have 14 players who have scored goals this season, led by Reilyn Turner's 10 goals and Ally Cook's eight goals. No game displayed UCLA's depth more than the Oregon State contest on Oct. 5 when six different Bruin players scored a goal and all 22 players on the active roster reached double-digits in minutes played. UCLA has played the maximum 22 players in three of the last five Pac-12 Conference games. ย ย ย
NATIONAL LEADERS
In games through Oct. 24, UCLA ranks in the Top 10 in the nation in shots per game (1st - 22.20), W-L-T percentage (3rd - 0.933), goal differential (5th - 37), scoring offense (6th - 3.00), shutout percentage (6th - 0.667) and shots on goal per game (10th - 9.27). The Bruins' current 11-game winning streak is tied with Memphis for the longest active streak in the nation. Individually, Reilyn Turner ranks 21st in points per game (1.67). ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA remains ranked No. 2 in both the ย United Soccer Coaches poll and the Top Drawer Soccer poll. ย ย
ABOUT THE GOLDEN BEARS
California enters the week with a 7-3-6 overall and 4-0-4 conference record. The Bears are coming off a weekend in which they outscored their opponents, 11-1, including an 8-1 thrashing of Oregon. Senior Anysa Gray earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors this week after totaling two goals and an assist in the two matches. A total of 13 different players have scored goals for the Bears this season, led by Ari Manrique (five goals, 10 points) and Karlie Lema (four goals, 12 points). Goalkeeper Teagan Wy ranks third in the Pac-12 with an .829 save percentage and is fourth with 68 saves. In eight conference matches, she has only allowed three goals. Graduate defender Kylie Kerr, who was a member of the Bruins' NCAA Championship squad and two Pac-12 Championship teams, has started every game for the Bears and leads the team in minutes played with 1,407.
THE SERIES WITH CALIFORNIA
UCLA is 21-6-2 all-time against California and has won the last three matchups and five of the last six. The Bruins won last year's game at home, 4-2. The Bears scored first in the game, on a 21st minute goal by Karlie Lema that was assisted by current Bruin Ayo Oke, but UCLA scored three unanswered goals, including the tying and go-ahead goals by Maricarmen Reyes, and the eventual game-winner by Ally Cook in the 58th minute. Bridgette Marin-Valencia added an insurance goal in the 83rd after Cal cut the lead to 3-2. ย ย ย
ABOUT THE CARDINAL
No. 4 Stanford enters the week with a 14-0-2 record and is 7-0-1 in Pac-12 play. The Cardinal is unbeaten in its last 28 matches dating to last season and has posted 14 shutouts in their last 24 games. Goalkeeper Ryan Campbell leads the Pac-12 and ranks 14th nationally with a 0.480 goals against average. She is a four-time Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week and tied the Pac-12 record by winning three consecutive weekly awards. Stanford has four players in double-digits in scoring, led by Jasmine Aikey, who has 19 points and a team-leading seven goals. Andrea Kitahata and Joelle Jung lead the Pac-12 with four game-winning goals apiece. ย ย ย
THE SERIES WITH STANFORD
UCLA has won two of the last three matchups but lost last year at Stanford, 1-0, in a game that snapped the Bruins' 13-game winning streak. The Bruins' last win came in 2021 in Westwood on a goal by Maricarmen Reyes in the 86th minute. Lexi Wright assisted on the goal. In the 2020 season, the Bruins came from behind to win 2-1 in overtime at the Farm to clinch the Pac-12 title. Reilyn Turner scored the tying goal in the 77th minute, and Delanie Sheehan recorded the game-winner in the 91st. The Cardinal lead the overall series, 19-13-2. This is just the second time in the last six years that UCLA has hosted Stanford. ย ย
BRUIN-CARDINAL COACHING CONNECTION
UCLA head coach Margueritte Aozasa served as an assistant coach at Stanford from 2015-21 under head coach Paul Ratcliffe before leading the Bruins to a NCAA title in her first season in Westwood in 2022. Aozasa had previously helped guide the Cardinal to NCAA titles in 2017 and 2019 and to Pac-12 titles from 2015-19. Ratcliffe, who is in his 21st season as head coach at Stanford, was an assistant coach for the Bruin women from 1994-97 and the interim head coach from January through August of 1996. Ratcliffe played on UCLA's 1990 NCAA Championship team. ย ย ย ย ย
FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY
Several Bruins spent the offseason playing for their respective national teams in tournaments around the world. Head coach Margueritte Aozasa coached the U.S. Under-23 team at the Thorns Preseason Tournament in March in Portland, Oregon, and was joined by players Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sunshine Fontes, Reilyn Turner, Neeku Purcell and Ayo Oke. In May, Ally Lemos and Sofia Cook played for the U.S., and Val Vargas played for Mexico at the 2023 Concacaf Under-20 Championships in the Dominican Republic. With Vargas in the starting lineup, Mexico beat the U.S. in the final, 2-1, to capture the championship. Vargas is one of three Mexican U-20 players on the Bruin squad, along with sophomores Bridgette Marin-Valencia and America Frias, who each played with Mexico at the 2022 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Also playing in that 2022 Under-20 World Cup were Reale, Purcell and Oke. Vargas, Marin-Valencia and Frias missed the Colorado game while at training camp with Mexico's U-20 squad. Freshman Maya Leoni was out for the early part of October at Colombia's U-17 national team camp in Bogotá.
UP NEXT
UCLA closes out the regular season at home on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7pm against USC.ย
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Date: Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 โ 4 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Talent: Christian Miles
Internet Radio: uclabruins.com
Talent: Nick Koop
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
No. 2 UCLA (14-1, 8-0) vs. No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1)
Date: Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023 โ 12 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Talent: Christian Miles, Tracey Baileyย
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
BRUINS HOST BAY AREA SCHOOLS ย ย
With just three games remaining in the regular season, No. 2 UCLA (14-1, 8-0 in the Pac-12, winners of 11 straight) hosts California (7-3-6, 4-0-4) on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 4pm and No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1) on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 12pm. Both games are the opening games in doubleheaders with the UCLA men's soccer team. The Bruin men host Washington on Thursday at 7pm and Oregon State on Sunday at 3pm. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
ALUMNI WEEKEND ย ย
UCLA will welcome women's soccer alumni back to campus on Sunday during Homecoming weekend. The 2013 squad, UCLA's first-ever NCAA women's soccer championship team, will be honored at halftime of Sunday's game on its 10-year anniversary. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
PIVOTAL PAC-12 GAMES AHEAD ย ย
The Pac-12 leading Bruins control their own destiny in the hunt for the conference championship and can clinch their 13th Pac-12 title this weekend with a pair of victories over fourth-place California and second-place Stanford. Entering this week's play, with three games to go, UCLA leads the conference with 24 points, two points ahead of second-place Stanford (22). USC (17), Calfiornia (16) and Arizona State (16) are still mathematically alive in the race but have no margin for error. A UCLA win over California on Thursday would assure the Bruins of no worse than a second-place finish. A weekend sweep or a tie against Cal and win against Stanford would secure the title for UCLA. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
UCLA SWEEPS ARIZONA SCHOOLS ON ROAD ย ย
UCLA continued its hot streak, sweeping the Arizona schools in its final road trip of the season. The Bruins started the weekend by scoring three second-half goals in a 4-1 win at Arizona on Oct. 19. UCLA, which outshot the Wildcats, 19-2, received goals from Reilyn Turner, Lexi Wright and Ally Cook and benefited from an own goal in the 14th minute after a save on Wright's shot was deflected off a Wildcat defender. Turner provided the heroics in the 1-0 win at Arizona State on Oct. 22, scoring on a header off an Ally Lemos corner kick in the 89th minute. Goalkeeper Neeku Purcell made three saves and earned her sixth solo shutout of the season. ย ย
DEFENSIVE DOMINANCE ย ย
Defender Lilly Reale was selected the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after leading a Bruin defensive effort that shut out Arizona State and held the Sun Devils and Wildcats to a combined seven shots. Reale's selection was the fifth of a UCLA defender in the last six weeks. Quincy McMahon won a record four Defensive Player of the Week honors prior to Reale. UCLA's defense has recorded 10 shutouts, held opponents to single digit shots in 14 of 15 games and an average of 4.5 shots per game. The Bruins hold a team goals against average of 0.53. ย ย ย ย
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ย ย
UCLA enters this week on a 20-game home unbeaten streak. The Bruins' last home loss came on Nov. 12, 2021, meaning Margueritte Aozasa has never lost a home game as Bruin head coach. During the streak, UCLA is 19-0-1 with 14 shutouts, including five in a row. This season, the Bruins have outscored their opponents at Wallis Annenberg Stadium, 24-1. They have also outshot opponents at home by a 174-19 count. ย ย ย
TURNING OVER THE RECORD BOOKSย
After scoring seven goals in her last five games, Reilyn Turner has moved into fifth place on UCLA's career goals list with 42 and into sole possession of sixth place on the career points list with 98. She also moved into a tie for fifth place in career game-winning goals with 16 and has three game-winners in the last four games. Turner also ranks third at UCLA with three career hat tricks, behind only Traci Arkenberg and Sydney Leroux. This season, Turner leads the team in scoring with 10 goals and 25 points and is ranked second in assists with five. She has been deadly in conference games, leading all Pac-12 players with seven goals and 16 points in conference play. The senior from Aliso Viejo, Calif. has secured a fourth consecutive 20-point season. ย ย
CORNER CONNECTIONย
It would be hard to find a more iconic duo late in a game than Ally Lemos and Reilyn Turner. With time running out in a scoreless contest Sunday at Arizona State, Lemos sent a corner kick into the box, and Turner headed it home for the game-winner in the 89th minute. It was far from the first time they had connected on a corner; Lemos' last three assists have been corner kicks that Turner has headed into goal, most famously in the NCAA Championship with 16 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Seven of Lemos' 11 career assists have come on corner kicks, including her last four. ย ย ย ย
ALLY KEEPS COOKIN'ย
With eight goals in 2023, graduate forward Ally Cook has equaled her single-season best total for goals scored, set in 2021 at Oregon. Cook, who came to UCLA in 2022 as a graduate transfer in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, has totaled 13 goals as a Bruin, adding to her total of 17 as a Duck. Her 30 career goals rank her second on the current UCLA squad behind only Reilyn Turner (42). Cook ranks second on the team and fourth in the conference with eight goals. She is also second on the team and seventh in the Pac-12 with 17 points. Her five goals in conference play rank second overall in the Pac-12. ย ย ย ย
THE WRIGHT STUFFย
Junior forward Lexi Wright has put together another strong season, ranking third on the team in goals (five) and points (13). In Pac-12 play, she ranks second in the conference with 11 points, fifth with three assists and sixth with four goals. Last season, she ranked third on the team in all scoring categories, totaling 22 points on eight goals and six assists, and she was named to the College Cup All-Tournament team after leading the Bruin comeback in the NCAA Championship game.ย
MCMAHON SETS PAC-12 RECORDS ย ย
Junior Quincy McMahon became the first player in conference history to earn four Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week awards in one season when she won her fourth honor in a five week span on Oct. 16. She has also extended her conference-leading career total of Defensive Player of the Week awards to five. McMahon has also been a big asset offensively, leading the Pac-12 in assists with seven. ย ย ย
FONTES OUT FOR SEASON ย
Graduate midfielder Sunshine Fontes suffered an ACL injury on Sept. 28 at Washington, prematurely ending her season. Fontes finishes the year with five goals and 11 points in just nine games. She scored three goals in the win over Long Beach State on Sept. 7, moving up to No. 3 on UCLA's all-time list for career hat tricks with two. The 2022 All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-12 honoree finishes with 21 goals, 13 assists and 55 points in her career. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
SIX RANKED IN TOP 50 ย ย
UCLA leads the nation with six players in the Top 50 and four players in the Top 25 of Top Drawer Soccer's Midseason Top 100. Defender Lilly Reale tops the Bruins with a No. 10 ranking, followed closesly by forward Ally Cook, who is No. 12. Forward Reilyn Turner (No. 17), defender Quincy McMahon (No. 22), midfielder Ally Lemos (No. 39) and defender Ayo Oke (No. 44) also made the Top 50. ย ย ย ย
NO SHOT AGAINST BRUIN DEFENSE ย ย
UCLA has held opponents to single-digit shots in 14 of the team's 15 games and limited its last five opponents to a total of just 13 shots. The Bruins' lockdown defense, which has a team goals against average of 0.53, starts goalkeeper Neeku Purcell, center backs Lilly Reale and Jayden Perry and outside backs Quincy McMahon and Ayo Oke. The Bruins have totaled 10 shutouts this season and have allowed just one goal in the month of October. ย ย ย
PK POWER ย ย
UCLA has taken a program record and nation-leading 10 penalty kicks this season and hit its first nine before missing on its 10th on Oct. 22. Jayden Perry leads the team with three penalty kick goals, followed by Reilyn Turner and Sunshine Fontes, who each have two. Emma Egizii and America Frias have made one each. ย ย
ROLLING IN THE DEEP ย ย
UCLA's strength lies in its depth. The Bruins have 14 players who have scored goals this season, led by Reilyn Turner's 10 goals and Ally Cook's eight goals. No game displayed UCLA's depth more than the Oregon State contest on Oct. 5 when six different Bruin players scored a goal and all 22 players on the active roster reached double-digits in minutes played. UCLA has played the maximum 22 players in three of the last five Pac-12 Conference games. ย ย ย
NATIONAL LEADERS
In games through Oct. 24, UCLA ranks in the Top 10 in the nation in shots per game (1st - 22.20), W-L-T percentage (3rd - 0.933), goal differential (5th - 37), scoring offense (6th - 3.00), shutout percentage (6th - 0.667) and shots on goal per game (10th - 9.27). The Bruins' current 11-game winning streak is tied with Memphis for the longest active streak in the nation. Individually, Reilyn Turner ranks 21st in points per game (1.67). ย ย ย
IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA remains ranked No. 2 in both the ย United Soccer Coaches poll and the Top Drawer Soccer poll. ย ย
ABOUT THE GOLDEN BEARS
California enters the week with a 7-3-6 overall and 4-0-4 conference record. The Bears are coming off a weekend in which they outscored their opponents, 11-1, including an 8-1 thrashing of Oregon. Senior Anysa Gray earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors this week after totaling two goals and an assist in the two matches. A total of 13 different players have scored goals for the Bears this season, led by Ari Manrique (five goals, 10 points) and Karlie Lema (four goals, 12 points). Goalkeeper Teagan Wy ranks third in the Pac-12 with an .829 save percentage and is fourth with 68 saves. In eight conference matches, she has only allowed three goals. Graduate defender Kylie Kerr, who was a member of the Bruins' NCAA Championship squad and two Pac-12 Championship teams, has started every game for the Bears and leads the team in minutes played with 1,407.
THE SERIES WITH CALIFORNIA
UCLA is 21-6-2 all-time against California and has won the last three matchups and five of the last six. The Bruins won last year's game at home, 4-2. The Bears scored first in the game, on a 21st minute goal by Karlie Lema that was assisted by current Bruin Ayo Oke, but UCLA scored three unanswered goals, including the tying and go-ahead goals by Maricarmen Reyes, and the eventual game-winner by Ally Cook in the 58th minute. Bridgette Marin-Valencia added an insurance goal in the 83rd after Cal cut the lead to 3-2. ย ย ย
ABOUT THE CARDINAL
No. 4 Stanford enters the week with a 14-0-2 record and is 7-0-1 in Pac-12 play. The Cardinal is unbeaten in its last 28 matches dating to last season and has posted 14 shutouts in their last 24 games. Goalkeeper Ryan Campbell leads the Pac-12 and ranks 14th nationally with a 0.480 goals against average. She is a four-time Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week and tied the Pac-12 record by winning three consecutive weekly awards. Stanford has four players in double-digits in scoring, led by Jasmine Aikey, who has 19 points and a team-leading seven goals. Andrea Kitahata and Joelle Jung lead the Pac-12 with four game-winning goals apiece. ย ย ย
THE SERIES WITH STANFORD
UCLA has won two of the last three matchups but lost last year at Stanford, 1-0, in a game that snapped the Bruins' 13-game winning streak. The Bruins' last win came in 2021 in Westwood on a goal by Maricarmen Reyes in the 86th minute. Lexi Wright assisted on the goal. In the 2020 season, the Bruins came from behind to win 2-1 in overtime at the Farm to clinch the Pac-12 title. Reilyn Turner scored the tying goal in the 77th minute, and Delanie Sheehan recorded the game-winner in the 91st. The Cardinal lead the overall series, 19-13-2. This is just the second time in the last six years that UCLA has hosted Stanford. ย ย
BRUIN-CARDINAL COACHING CONNECTION
UCLA head coach Margueritte Aozasa served as an assistant coach at Stanford from 2015-21 under head coach Paul Ratcliffe before leading the Bruins to a NCAA title in her first season in Westwood in 2022. Aozasa had previously helped guide the Cardinal to NCAA titles in 2017 and 2019 and to Pac-12 titles from 2015-19. Ratcliffe, who is in his 21st season as head coach at Stanford, was an assistant coach for the Bruin women from 1994-97 and the interim head coach from January through August of 1996. Ratcliffe played on UCLA's 1990 NCAA Championship team. ย ย ย ย ย
FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY
Several Bruins spent the offseason playing for their respective national teams in tournaments around the world. Head coach Margueritte Aozasa coached the U.S. Under-23 team at the Thorns Preseason Tournament in March in Portland, Oregon, and was joined by players Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sunshine Fontes, Reilyn Turner, Neeku Purcell and Ayo Oke. In May, Ally Lemos and Sofia Cook played for the U.S., and Val Vargas played for Mexico at the 2023 Concacaf Under-20 Championships in the Dominican Republic. With Vargas in the starting lineup, Mexico beat the U.S. in the final, 2-1, to capture the championship. Vargas is one of three Mexican U-20 players on the Bruin squad, along with sophomores Bridgette Marin-Valencia and America Frias, who each played with Mexico at the 2022 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Also playing in that 2022 Under-20 World Cup were Reale, Purcell and Oke. Vargas, Marin-Valencia and Frias missed the Colorado game while at training camp with Mexico's U-20 squad. Freshman Maya Leoni was out for the early part of October at Colombia's U-17 national team camp in Bogotá.
UP NEXT
UCLA closes out the regular season at home on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7pm against USC.ย
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