TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona Soccer (6-1) will begin Pac-12 conference play at Mulcahy Stadium on Friday against Colorado (8-1). It is the first time this season that the Wildcats will play a nationally ranked team, with Colorado coming in at 24th. The match will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

Friday, Sept. 27
vs. Colorado 
7:00 p.m. MST

TV: Pac-12 Networks
Twitter: @ArizonaSoccer
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ON THE PITCH

• The Arizona win against TCU marked the 200th career victory for head coach Tony Amato. He became the winningest coach in Wildcat history in 2018.

• Arizona scored 15 goals in the first four matches of the season. That is one goal behind Arizona's all time record set in 2001. 

• Arizona continues to out shoot every opponent they face. The Wildcats take an average of 16 shots while their opponents take 5.3.

• Forward Jill Aguilera had a massive weekend against TCU, scoring two back-to-back goals within seconds of one another. These bring her goal total up to four on the season.

• The Wildcats return 19 student-athletes from last year's NCAA Tournament team and bring in eight newcomers.

• Forward Brooke Wilson has stepped up her game, scoring five goals so far in the 2019 season. This comes off of only three goals scored in the entirety of the 2018 season. Wilson seems to be setting an early routine as two of the five goals have been scored in the second minute of play.

Last Time Out
Arizona improved to 6-1 on the season with a 4-3 win against TCU on Saturday night. The Wildcats built a 4-1 lead late in the match before holding on for their third-straight home victory. Their victory was led by goals from Brooke Wilson, Samantha Falasco, and Jill Aguilera. 

We Score, They Don't
The Wildcats are on fire after successfully recording five clean sheets this season. Arizona played a consecutive 401 minutes without surrendering a single goal. In the first seven games of the season, the Wildcats have taken 112 shots and scored 20 goals. 

Reaching our goals
Forwards Brooke Wilson and Jill Aguilera have both stepped up this season in the goal department. Aguilera recently met her career high of four goals set in 2018 on Saturday against TCU. Wilson has surpassed her career high of three goals set in 2018 by scoring five goals in only seven matches this season. She added another to her count in the second minute of the match against TCU. 

How May We Assist You
Forward Jada Talley is at the top of her game, lending five assists and two goals within the first seven games of the season. Two of those assists came within the first 10 minutes of the match against UC Irvine. Talley now holds ten career goals and eight career assists, putting her in an excellent position to break school records. 

A New Face
For the first time since the 2016 season, someone other than Lainey Burdett will don the keeper shirt for the Wildcats. Redshirt freshman Kendyll Humphreys and Tucson product Hope Hisey will compete for the starting spot this season. Humphreys was a member of the 2018 squad, but did not see any action. Both keepers have each started games for the Wildcats this season.

Continuity in the Back Line
Arizona returns all four of their back line members for the 2019 season. Last season, Morgan McGarry, Samantha Falasco, Hallie Pearson and Sabrina Enciso played the bulk of the minutes and allowed just 19 goals in 21 games, an average of 0.87 goals allowed per game. The quartet were instrumental in keeping nine clean sheets, including five straight during the non-conference slate, a program record.

Building A Legacy
Tony Amato has taken the Arizona soccer program to heights it has never seen before with four NCAA Tournament appearances in the last five years. In his six years at the helm, the Wildcats have finished .500 or better with at least nine wins in each year. The expectations for the 2019 squad are no different this year with 19 returners from last year's team that hosted the first round of the NCAA Tournament and were knocked out by a quality Tennessee opponent in the second round. UA brings back 72% of their scoring from the 2018 season, including Jada Talley who led Arizona with seven goals last year. 

A Classy Class
Arizona's senior class of Dana Dalton, Kelcey Cavarra, Brynn Moga, Morgan McGarry, Samantha Falasco, Leah Carillo and Zoe Barrie have been a part of 38 wins, nine short of the 2018 senior class who won 47 games in their four years on campus to give them the program record.

Going for the Record
Kelcey Cavarra has played in all 67 matches during her career at Arizona and has helped the lead the Wildcats to a record of 39-21-7 during that time. She is currently nine wins behind Arizona's winningest player of all time, Kennedy Kieneker, who graduated in the Spring of 2019.  

An Unprecedented Run
Head coach Tony Amato, Arizona's winningest coach of all time, has taken the Arizona soccer program to places it has never been. For starters, he has led the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament four of his first six years as head coach, including four of the last five seasons. Prior to his arrival, the team made the tournament just twice from 1994 to 2012. Additionally, his teams have never finished the season below .500 in his six years, while Arizona had a record of .500 or better just twice in the previous 19 seasons. 

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