Cowgirl Soccer Heads West

Oklahoma State (4-4-1, 0-1-0) at #17 Arizona State (8-0-1, 1-0-0)

Thurs., Sept. 25 • 9 p.m. (CDT)
Tempe, Ariz. • Sun Devil Soccer Stadium

Oklahoma State (4-4-1, 0-1-0) at Arizona (5-4-0, 0-1-0)

Sun., Sept. 28 • 1 p.m. (CDT)
Tucson, Ariz. • Mulcahy Stadium

TV/Video: ESPN+ (Thurs. - Ryan Sykora & Adrian Pelayo Sun. – Mackenzie Hamilton & Brody Dryden)
Radio: The Varsity Network/Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM (Ryan Breeden)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Scoreboard/Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State is 4-4-1 overall and 0-1-0 in Big 12 Conference play as the Cowgirls head west to take on nationally-ranked Arizona State and Arizona this week.
     • The Cowgirls are coming off a 14-5-3 season in 2024 in which they finished fifth in the Big 12 Conference standings with a 6-3-2 mark and earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, where OSU lost in the first round to No. 2 national seed Arkansas.
     • OSU returns seven players who started at least 10 games for the Cowgirls last season, including All-Big 12 performers Gracie Bindbeutel, Xcaret Pineda and Laudan Wilson.
     • Colin Carmichael entered his 21st season as OSU's head coach in 2025 with a career record of 265-110-53 (.681).

Last Week

OSU dropped its lone match of the week as the Cowgirls opened Big 12 play with a 1-0 loss at home to Kansas, who scored in the 56th minute.

Scouting The Opponents

     • Arizona State owns the Big 12's best record at 8-0-1 and has won seven-straight games. The 17th-ranked Sun Devils opened Big 12 play with a 2-1 win at home over 10th-ranked BYU.
     • Graham Winkworth is in his ninth season as ASU's head coach and owns a career record of 75-64-22.
     • The Cowgirls are 1-1-0 all time against Arizona State, losing a match in 2014 in Tempe and winning in Stillwater the next season.
     • Arizona is 5-4-0 on the season and dropped its Big 12 opener last week at Iowa State. The Wildcats host UCF Thursday night.
     • Becca Moros is in her fifth season as UA's head coach and has led the Wildcats to a 35-38-10 record.
     • The Cowgirls have lost their only two previous meetings with Arizona, both of those coming in 2014. The Wildcats were winners during a regular season match played in Tempe, then defeated OSU in an NCAA Championship first-round contest in Stillwater.

In The Rankings

In this week's official NCAA RPI, the Cowgirls check in at No. 37. Arizona State is one spot ahead of OSU in the RPI, while Arizona is No. 93.
OSU fell out of the national rankings following the opening week of the season after being ranked No. 22 in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll. That appearance marked the first time the Cowgirls had been ranked to open a season since 2021 when they were No. 16 in the preseason rankings.

Injury Bug Biting

     Injuries have taken a huge toll on the Cowgirls this season, with numerous key players forced to go on the shelf. Among them:
     • All-Big 12 midfielder Laudan Wilson, OSU's leading scorer last season, played in only one of the Cowgirls' first eight games (vs. Oklahoma on Aug. 17). She returned to action off the bench vs. Kansas.
     • Gracie Bindbeutel, an All-Big 12 forward, was lost for the remainder of the season with a knee injury after starting the first five games
     • Starting midfielder Chloe Wright has missed two games
     • Lexi Lee has missed six games
     • Emmy Hedden missed the first seven games of the season
     • Juliette Perreault missed the first five games of the season
     • Leading goal scorer and All-Big 12 midfielder Xcaret Pineda was injured late in the first half against Oral Roberts and did not return to the game; she missed the East Texas A&M and Kansas games
     • Starting goalie Logan Marks was injured in the first half of the Kansas match and missed the final 57 minutes
     • Bella Pierotti was injured in the opening half vs. Kansas and did not return

X Gon' Give It To Ya

     It's safe to say OSU's offense runs through Xcaret Pineda.
     The Cowgirls' senior midfielder has played a role in six of OSU's 15 goals this season, finding the back of the net five times and also recording an assist. She notched the first multi-goal game of her career with a brace against Arkansas State.
     Pineda ranks fifth in the Big 12 in goals and is seventh in the league with 11 points. With just one more goal, Pineda will tie her career high for goals in a season — she has tallied six each of the last two years.
     In 68 career games, 64 as a starter, Pineda has recorded 19 goals and 12 assists while taking 157 shots.

She's A Giver

     Laudan Wilson tallied nine assists last season as a sophomore, which ranked second in the Big 12 and was the most assists in a season by a Cowgirl since Jaci Jones had 12 in 2019.
     Wilson also added five goals, which ranked third on the squad, as she led the Cowgirls with 19 points.
     With 15 assists in her career, Wilson is five away from cracking the top 10 list in program history.

Four Corners

     OSU has recorded 59 corner kicks, an average of nearly seven per game.
     And the Cowgirls have taken advantage of those scoring opportunities as six of their 15 goals have come off corner kicks.
     Taryn Thibeau has recorded a career-high three assists, each coming off a corner kick, while Jazmin Brown's two goals are also a career best and came on headers off a corner kick. Sonora DeFini has also scored two headers off corners.

I Can Score Too

     Ellie Geoffroy has established herself as one of OSU's top defenders over the last three seasons, but against East Texas A&M, she proved she can be a scoring threat.
     Geoffroy recorded the first multi-goal game of career with a brace against the Lions as she netted OSU's first two goals of the game in a five-minute span in the first half. She also had an assist in the game.
     Entering the game, Geoffroy did not have a goal or assist on the season, and she previously had four career goals in 65 games.

Dandy Debut

Emmy Hedden had an immediate impact in her first collegiate game. After missing OSU's first seven games due to injury, Hedden was in the starting lineup against East Texas A&M and produced a goal and an assist to earn Big 12 Co-Freshman of the Week honors.
Hedden notched an assist on OSU's second goal then converted her only shot of the game as she scored on a 35-yard strike upper 90 for the first goal of her career.

Oklahoma State (4-4-1, 0-1-0) at #17 Arizona State (8-0-1, 1-0-0)

Thurs., Sept. 25 • 9 p.m. (CDT)
Tempe, Ariz. • Sun Devil Soccer Stadium

Oklahoma State (4-4-1, 0-1-0) at Arizona (5-4-0, 0-1-0)

Sun., Sept. 28 • 1 p.m. (CDT)
Tucson, Ariz. • Mulcahy Stadium

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Players Mentioned

Gracie Bindbeutel

Jazmin Brown

Sonora DeFini

Ellie Geoffroy

Emmy Hedden

Lexi Lee

Logan Marks

Juliette Perreault

Bella Pierotti

Xcaret Pineda

Taryn Thibeau

Laudan Wilson

Chloe Wright

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