South Florida Hosts Temple Before Heading to Cincinnati

Matchup: USF (6-6-0, 4-1-0 AAC) vs. Temple (1-8-4, 0-4-0 AAC)
When: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m.
Where: Corbett Stadium
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Matchup: USF (7-6-0, 4-1-0 AAC) vs. Cincinnati (5-2-6, 1-1-3 AAC)
When: Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m.
Where: Cincinnati, Ohio
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TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 19, 2022 – The University of South Florida ladies’s soccer crew will welcome the Temple Owls to Corbett Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 20 for senior day. The Bulls will flip round and head to Cincinnati, Ohio for a matchup with the Bearcats on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
Entering This Week’s Match

• The Bulls at the moment sit in second place within the American Conference, one level behind Central Florida.
• With a win this weekend, USF will lock in a prime two spot within the American Conference.
• South Florida is wanting to seize their sixth-straight convention title.
• They gained the common season in 2018, 2020, and 2021 whereas profitable the event title in 2017, 2019, and 2020.
• The Bulls lead the all-time collection between each opponents. They lead the Owls 8-1 and the Bearcats 13-11-5.
• Prior to the match towards Temple, South Florida will acknowledge the seven-member senior class. Head coach Denise Schilte-Brown will honor Sydney Martinez, Lucy Roberts, Rosalia Muino Gonzalez, Julianne Hutchison, Meghan Root, Landry Singleton, and Katrina Haarmann.

Last Match

• The Bulls have now had two consecutive come-from-behind wins.
• South Florida scored both goals in the second half in its 2-1 win over East Carolina.
• Lucy Roberts and Haizea Aretxabala Blanco scored for South Florida. For Blanco, the goal was her first of her career.
• With Roberts PK goal on Sunday, the Bulls stay perfect in PK’s, going 3-for-3.

 
And the Award Goes To…
South Florida has earned American Athletic Conference weekly honors 12 times this season. Most recently, freshman Haizea Aretxabala Blanco snagged the American Conference Rookie of the Week on Oct. 17 for scoring her first collegiate goal. Her goal was the deciding factor in the Bulls 2-1 win over ECU.  Seven Bulls have earned spots on the Honor Roll with Sydney Martinez leading with four. Maria Bulis, Rosalia Muino Gonzalez, Georgia Brown, Daniella Chung, Serita Thurton, and Lucy Roberts have been named once. 
 
Thunderstruck
Situated in the lightning capital of the United States, Florida averaged 223 strikes per square mile in 2021, with Tampa ranking as the No. 1 city with more than 500,000 people by WeatherBug in 2015. The weather has targeted the Bulls this season, with each of its first three games being delayed due to weather so far this season and one game being called early due to weather. In total, while the Bulls have spent 19 hours and 30 minutes in game on the pitch, they have also spent seven hours and 18 minutes in weather delays.
 
She’s A Keeper
Martinez is making her case as one of the best keepers to come through the women’s soccer program at South Florida. With the Bulls 1-0 win over Tulsa on Sept. 22, she became the new career shutout leader. Then on October 6, after playing the full 90 minutes, she became the all-time leader in goalie minutes played. The fifth-year senior is currently ranked in all of the career goalkeeper lists that USF tracks. Her placements are below:

• Goalie Minutes Played: 1st; 6,824
• Goals Against Average: 1st; 0.844.
• Saves: 4th; 246 (3rd: 275, 1st: 318)
• Saves Per Game: 10th; 3.24 (9th: 3.62; 1st: 5.07)
• Save Percentage: 5th; .794 (4th: .799; 1st: .825)
• Shutouts: 1st; 26

She also holds the single-season goals-against average record at USF with a 0.453 tally in 2020.
 
National Team Duty
South Florida boasts a tremendous amount of experience with their respective national teams. Vivianne Bessette and Serita Thurton just completed competition for the Canadian National Team at the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. Bessette has also spent time in the Bulgarian National Team system, while Emilie Lajmiri (Denmark) and Chiara Hahn (Germany) have also represented their country in various levels of competition. USF also has a strong alumni base competing on the international level. In the most recent Olympic Games, Evelyne Viens (Canada) won a gold medal, while Christiane Endler (Chile), Olivia Chance (New Zealand) and Demi Stokes (Great Britain) all competed in the Games.
 
We’re Twinning ‘Em
South Florida is one of 20 Division I soccer programs with at least one set of twins on the roster. Iris and Sloane Young joined the team in 2021 and are sophomores for the 2022 season. The Bulls are one of three sets of twins in the American Athletic Conference, joining the Parker sisters at Temple and the Fernandez sisters at Tulsa. Overall, there are 23 sets of twins between the 20 schools.
 
About USF Women’s Soccer
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The USF ladies’s soccer crew has posted ten consecutive seasons of 10-plus wins below head coach Denise Schilte-Brown. The Bulls made their first NCAA event look in 2010 and returned in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. South Florida has 5 consecutive seasons with a convention championship, incomes the event title in 2017, 2019 and 2020 in addition to the regular-season title in 2018, 2020 and 2021. The program had its first draft decide and second-highest decide in USF Athletics historical past with Evelyne Viens being taken with the fifth general decide within the 2020 NWSL Draft by Sky Blue FC, now Gotham FC.

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