The University of Washington Huskies are going across the country to test themselves in early NCAA non-league action this weekend. The women's soccer team will play UMass Friday at 1:00 PM and Boston University Sunday at 5:00 PM. You can read the weekly Pac-10 Women's Soccer release here.
SCOUTING UMASS
The match with the Huskies will be the first of the 2010 season for the Minutewomen. UMass is led by first-year head coach Ed Matz. He was the 2009 CAA Coach of the Year at Northeastern. In 2009, UMass went 6-11-2. Last year's point's leader Therese Smith returns for her senior season. She had a team-high five goals and three assists. Goalkeeper Emily Cota returns for her junior campaign after making 83 saves last season. This is the second meeting between these two schools. They first met back in 1992 in Amherst where No. 8 UMass defeated UW in double overtime, 2-1.
SCOUTING BOSTON
Boston is 0-2 after dropping two one-goal games to nationally ranked opponents. The Terriers fell 1-0 to No. 12 South Carolina to open the season and then 2-1 to No. 2 Stanford. They will host American on Friday before the Huskies get into town. Senior transfer Lisa Kevorkian scored the lone goal for BU against Stanford and leads the team with four shots. Corie Halasz had the assist on the goal. In their two games so far, the Terriers have fired 17 shots and seven on goal. Alice Binns has seven saves to lead the goalkeepers. Nancy Feldman is the head coach at BU in her 16th season. She ranks 15th in the NCAA in career wins while leading her team to seven conference titles in the last 10 years. This will be the first-ever meeting between UW and BU.
Below is the Media Day video featuring head coach Lesle Gallimore and players Kate Deines and McKenna Waitley.
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