4 Applications Seize Big 12 Soccer Week Awards

Colorado’s Hope Leyba and TCU’s Seven Castain shared the weekly Big 12 soccer offensive award, whereas Baylor claimed defensive awards with Hallie Augustyn (defensive) and Azul Alvarez (goalkeeper) and BYU’s Mia Lopez (freshman) rounded out this week’s honors.

Leyba led the league final week with 4 objectives and eight factors. The junior tallied her second hat trick of the season as she led the Buffaloes to a 3-1 win over Iowa State earlier than she registered the game-winning purpose within the 86^th minute to interrupt Houston’s unbeaten streak. Her efficiency in opposition to the Cyclones tabbed the Phoenix native as the primary CU participant to report a number of hat tips in the identical season, as her first was in opposition to UNC Greensboro (Aug. 24).  Leyba, the nation’s chief in objectives scored (13), collects her second Big 12 offensive honor this season.

Castain marked the second three-goal efficiency of her profession because the Horned Frogs edged out then-No. 14/9 Kansas 3-2 in Lawrence. She transformed a penalty kick within the 24^th, earlier than she tallied two objectives back-to-back within the 63^rd and 65^th minutes to assist TCU declare its second win over a high 25 workforce this season. Castain was credited together with her fourth game-winning purpose of the season, the second-most within the NCAA this season. This is her third honor this season and her second in three weeks.

Augustyn and the Bears went 2-0-0 final week, incomes two shutouts throughout a highway journey to the Sunflower State. Baylor earned its second win over a ranked workforce with a 3-0 win at No. 14/9 KU earlier than recording the identical outcome at Ok-State. The BU backline held the Jayhawks and the Wildcats scoreless on a mixed seven pictures on purpose in 32 shot makes an attempt. Augustyn performed 174 minutes throughout her second Big 12 weekly award-winning efficiency, beforehand incomes Freshman of the Week throughout the 2022 marketing campaign.

Alvarez was the league’s solely goalkeeper who didn’t concede a purpose final week, whereas her two clear sheets introduced her season whole to seven. She had three saves in opposition to Kansas and grabbed 4 at Ok-State. The Austin, Texas native has performed all minutes in purpose and holds a 7-1-2 report for the Bears. She leads Big 12 keepers and ranks fifth within the nation with a 0.30 goals-against common. This week’s choice is her third total Conference weekly honor and her second of the season.

Lopez scored three objectives final week, as she was certainly one of three Big 12 gamers to tally a number of objectives. She opened her week by scoring the Cougars’ first purpose in opposition to West Virginia within the second half, which tied the sport at 1 earlier than WVU outlasted the house workforce 3-2. She then led BYU’s scoring together with her first profession brace throughout the 3-0 victory in opposition to Cincinnati. In the sport in opposition to the Bearcats, the freshman from Logan, Utah, netted first-half objectives within the 11^th and 14^th minutes. Lopez is the second BYU participant to be named the league’s Freshman of the Week.