Women's Soccer | 9/1/2016 3:23:00 PM
SIOUX FALLS - Beginning the 2016 season, University of Sioux Falls Soccer heads to Kearney, Neb. for a pair of nonconference games over the weekend. The Cougars (0-0) open the season with William Jewell on Friday, Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. then close their road trip with a 2 p.m. game against Rockhurst on Sunday, Sept. 4.
How to follow this weekend's games
- Both of USF's games this weekend have live stats available HERE
Keeping up with the Cougars
Next up
- The Cougars return home for their NSIC opener, hosting Southwest Minnesota State on Friday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m.
- USF concludes their nonconference schedule with a trip to Northwest Missouri State on Sunday, Sept. 11 for a 1 p.m. game
Perkins and Campbell picked as players to watch
- Sophomore goalkeeper Morgan Perkins and freshman forward Carley Campbell were chosen as USF's players to watch in the NSIC preseason release
- Perkins returns as in 2016 after starting all 17 games last season to finish with a 2-14-1 record
- A native of Liberty, Mo., Perkins made 127 saves and posted a 2.59 goals against average in 2015
- Campbell enters her freshman season from Monument, Colo. where she played at Palmer Ridge High School
- She led her high school squad to consecutive state playoff appearances while she scored 10 goals and added 10 assists in her junior and senior seasons
Cougars show improvement in first year under Goosen
- Shoring up the defense was key for the Cougars as head coach Brittany Goosen took over in 2015
- USF allowed 46 goals in 2015, 15 fewer than the previous year
- Sioux Falls allowed seven fewer shots on goal than the previous year, while their opponents recorded more total shots
- USF's goal keepers finished with a .753 save percentage, and increase from .684 the previous year
- The Cougars played fewer game in 2015 but managed to record 82 shots on goal, more than the previous season
Sioux Falls returns five goal scorers from 2015
- All but one Cougar goal scorer returns for 2016, combining for eight of the team's nine goals last season
- Lola Weiss, Alexandria Scott and Chessa Novotny all found the back of the net twice in 2015
- Alexa D'Acunto and Brooke Jensen each scored once last season, notching the two gamewinners for the Cougars
- Weiss and Jensen ranked 1-2 on the team with 29 and 26 total shots, respectively, while Novotny led with 15 shots on goal
- Jensen and Jackie Montes both logged two assists and Montes was fourth on the team with 20 total shots, behind Novotny's 23.
Goosen continues building process in second season as head coach
- USF Soccer head coach Brittany Goosen enters her second season at the helm of the program
- Goosen equaled the team's previous win total with a 2-14-1 record in her first season as a head coach
- The Olathe, Kan. native held coaching positions at Missouri-Kansas City as an assistant in 2014 and at Emporia State as a graduate assistant from 2012-13
- Goosen played four years at the University of Nebraska, starting at as a center back from 2007-2011
