Hawkeyes Open with Rumble in the Rockies – University of Iowa Athletics

THIS WEEK
University of Iowa women’s soccer travels to Missoula, Montana, for the Rumble in the Rockies. The Hawkeyes take on Oregon State at 4 p.m. (CT) on Thursday before facing Colorado College at Noon (CT) on Sunday in the season-opening event. 

WATCH/FOLLOW LIVE

• Both matches stream live on ESPN+ (subscription required). 
• Links to streaming and live stats can be found at the gameday page on hawkeyesports.com.
• Fans can follow the Iowa soccer program on Twitter/X (@HawkeyeSoccer) for live in-game updates.

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS

• Interim Head Coach Caroline Kelly was elevated in July after seven seasons as an assistant at the Division I level. Kelly previously headed recruiting and defense for Oregon State, guiding the team to seven shutouts in 2023, a high watermark for the past decade of Beaver women’s soccer. 
• Oregon State finished 4-8-7 last season with a 1-6-4 conference record. Leading scorer McKenna Martinez brings back 15 points from the 2023 campaign, including six goals. Six of the team’s top seven point-scorers return on offense.
• The Beavers averaged 1.79 goals against last season, compared to a program-record 0.76 goals against average posted by the Hawkeye defense a year ago. 
• The Beavers will compete in the West Coast Conference for the first time this season. 

SERIES HISTORY – OREGON STATE 
Iowa and Oregon State meet for the first time in program history. 

SCOUTING THE PREDATORS

• Colorado College posted a 3-13-2 record last season, scoring 15 goals on the year and allowing 2.72 goals against. 
• Midfielder Kaelin Enga joined utility players Alexis Wessler and Makenna Kolson as Mountain West Preseason Players to Watch. Enga and Wessler join defender Ava Risser and midfielder Alex Sandoval as the squad’s leading returners on offense, where they each tallied three points apiece, last fall. 
• Sophomore goalkeeper Regan Wallace started in all 18 games last season. The Predators return all three keepers who saw the field in 2023.
• The Predators were voted 12th in the 2024 Mountain West Preseason Poll. 
• Colorado College advanced to the national semifinals or championship match five times in seven years during the1980s and is considered a pioneering program in collegiate women’s athletics.

SERIES HISTORY – COLORADO COLLEGE 
Iowa is 0-2-0 against the Predators, historically. The last meeting between the two schools was in 2005.

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