Sunday, October 29
Los Angeles, CA
12:00 PM
UCLA
vs
Stanford
Lexi Wright
Photo by: Jesus Ramirez
Women's Soccer Hosts Stanford Sunday at Noon
October 28, 2023 | Women's Soccer
No. 2 UCLA (15-1, 9-0) vs. No. 4 Stanford (14-0-3, 7-0-2)
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 CARDINAL SUNDAY IN TOP 5 MATCHUP ย ย
No. 2 UCLA (15-1, 9-0 in the Pac-12, winners of 12 straight) hosts No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1) on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 12pm. The game is the first in a doubleheader with the UCLA men's soccer team, who hosts Oregon State at 3pm. Both games in the doubleheader are between the top two teams in the Pac-12, as UCLA leads Stanford by four points in the women's standings with two games to play, and Oregon State leads UCLA by one point in the men's standings with four conference games remaining for the Bruins and two for the Beavers. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP WITHIN SIGHT ย ย
UCLA has the opportunity to clinch its 13th Pac-12 title with a win or tie against Stanford on Sunday. With a perfect 9-0 conference record and four-point lead over the Cardinal, the Bruins control their own destiny for the championship. UCLA is seeking its third conference title in the last four years.
BRUINS BEAT BEARS, 2-0 ย ย
UCLA started its weekend slate with a 2-0 victory over California. The Bruins received a pair of first-half goals by Ayo Oke and Michaela Rosenbaum and held strong to record their 11th shutout of the season. UCLA outshot Cal by a 17-7 margin and had seven shots on goal to the Bears' one. ย ย
AYO AY-OK ย ย
Junior defender Ayo Oke turned in an eye-opening performance against her former team California on Thursday, scoring the game-winning goal on a 30-yard bomb and adding an assist on the Bruins' second goal while helping the Bruins limit California to just one shot on goal in the shutout victory. Oke, who transfered to UCLA from Cal this fall, recorded her first goal as a Bruin. ย ย ย
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ย ย
UCLA enters Sunday's game on a 21-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 20-0-1 with 15 shutouts, including six in a row. This season, the Bruins have outscored their opponents at Wallis Annenberg Stadium, 26-1. They have also outshot opponents at home by a 191-26 count. ย 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 11 shutouts, held opponents to single digit shots in 15 of 16 games and an average of 4.6 shots per game. The Bruins hold a team goals against average of 0.50. ย ย ย ย
TURNING OVER THE RECORD BOOKSย
Senior forward 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 five 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 third 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 third in the conference with 11 points, sixth with four goals and seventh with three assists. 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
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 15 of the team's 16 games and limited its last six opponents to a total of just 20 shots. The Bruins' lockdown defense, which has a team goals against average of 0.50, starts goalkeeper Neeku Purcell, center backs Lilly Reale and Jayden Perry and outside backs Quincy McMahon and Ayo Oke. The Bruins have totaled 11 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 15 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. ย 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 CARDINAL
No. 4 Stanford enters Sunday's game with a 14-0-3 record and is 7-0-2 in Pac-12 play, four points behind first-place UCLA. The Cardinal is unbeaten in its last 29 matches dating to last season and has posted 14 shutouts in their last 25 games. Goalkeeper Ryan Campbell leads the Pac-12 with a 0.44 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 has been out for two different stretches with Colombia's U-17 national team.
ACADEMIC HONORS
For the 12th consecutive year, the UCLA women's soccer team has won a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, recognizing exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2022-23 academic year. The Bruins posted a team GPA of 3.27, their fourth consecutive year over 3.25. A program-record 18 players were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2022.
UP NEXT
UCLA closes out the regular season at home on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7pm against USC. ย ย
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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 CARDINAL SUNDAY IN TOP 5 MATCHUP ย ย
No. 2 UCLA (15-1, 9-0 in the Pac-12, winners of 12 straight) hosts No. 4 Stanford (14-0-2, 7-0-1) on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 12pm. The game is the first in a doubleheader with the UCLA men's soccer team, who hosts Oregon State at 3pm. Both games in the doubleheader are between the top two teams in the Pac-12, as UCLA leads Stanford by four points in the women's standings with two games to play, and Oregon State leads UCLA by one point in the men's standings with four conference games remaining for the Bruins and two for the Beavers. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP WITHIN SIGHT ย ย
UCLA has the opportunity to clinch its 13th Pac-12 title with a win or tie against Stanford on Sunday. With a perfect 9-0 conference record and four-point lead over the Cardinal, the Bruins control their own destiny for the championship. UCLA is seeking its third conference title in the last four years.
BRUINS BEAT BEARS, 2-0 ย ย
UCLA started its weekend slate with a 2-0 victory over California. The Bruins received a pair of first-half goals by Ayo Oke and Michaela Rosenbaum and held strong to record their 11th shutout of the season. UCLA outshot Cal by a 17-7 margin and had seven shots on goal to the Bears' one. ย ย
AYO AY-OK ย ย
Junior defender Ayo Oke turned in an eye-opening performance against her former team California on Thursday, scoring the game-winning goal on a 30-yard bomb and adding an assist on the Bruins' second goal while helping the Bruins limit California to just one shot on goal in the shutout victory. Oke, who transfered to UCLA from Cal this fall, recorded her first goal as a Bruin. ย ย ย
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ย ย
UCLA enters Sunday's game on a 21-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 20-0-1 with 15 shutouts, including six in a row. This season, the Bruins have outscored their opponents at Wallis Annenberg Stadium, 26-1. They have also outshot opponents at home by a 191-26 count. ย 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 11 shutouts, held opponents to single digit shots in 15 of 16 games and an average of 4.6 shots per game. The Bruins hold a team goals against average of 0.50. ย ย ย ย
TURNING OVER THE RECORD BOOKSย
Senior forward 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 five 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 third 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 third in the conference with 11 points, sixth with four goals and seventh with three assists. 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
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 15 of the team's 16 games and limited its last six opponents to a total of just 20 shots. The Bruins' lockdown defense, which has a team goals against average of 0.50, starts goalkeeper Neeku Purcell, center backs Lilly Reale and Jayden Perry and outside backs Quincy McMahon and Ayo Oke. The Bruins have totaled 11 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 15 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. ย 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 CARDINAL
No. 4 Stanford enters Sunday's game with a 14-0-3 record and is 7-0-2 in Pac-12 play, four points behind first-place UCLA. The Cardinal is unbeaten in its last 29 matches dating to last season and has posted 14 shutouts in their last 25 games. Goalkeeper Ryan Campbell leads the Pac-12 with a 0.44 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 has been out for two different stretches with Colombia's U-17 national team.
ACADEMIC HONORS
For the 12th consecutive year, the UCLA women's soccer team has won a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, recognizing exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2022-23 academic year. The Bruins posted a team GPA of 3.27, their fourth consecutive year over 3.25. A program-record 18 players were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2022.
UP NEXT
UCLA closes out the regular season at home on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7pm against USC. ย ย
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