Women’s Soccer Hosts No. 25 Ohio State

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers girls’s soccer is ready for the ultimate residence weekend of the season, starting with a take a look at towards No. 25 Ohio State on 7 p.m. Thursday at Yurcak Field. Thursday’s match marks the beginning of R NIL and Homecoming Weekend on the Banks.  

Match Details

Rutgers (3-6-4, 1-6-1) vs. No. 25 Ohio State (6-2-6, 2-1-5)

7 p.m. ET | Thursday, Oct. 16

Yurcak Field (Piscataway, N.J.)

Stream: B1G+

 

Head Coach Mike O’Neill leads the Scarlet Knights in his twelfth season, because the Scarlet Knights certified for his or her thirteenth consecutive NCAA Tournament in 2024 with an 11-win marketing campaign and look within the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game. They have certified for the convention event all 11 years within the Big Ten. 

The 2025 Scarlet Knights  

The 2025 roster includes a complete of 29 gamers, with 15 returners and 14 newcomers. Of the 14 newcomers, 9 are true freshmen and 5 are four-year transfers. Head Coach Mike O’Neill enters his twelfth season on the helm of this system and has reached the NCAA Tournament all 11 seasons thus far. 

O’Neill’s teaching workers stays intact, with affiliate head coach Lubos Ancin, assistant coach Madison Tiernan and assistant coach Ryan Nigro all returning. The group – together with Director of Operations Trish DiPaolo – has served collectively on the workers for six straight seasons.

Last Time Out  

Rutgers dropped a pair of matches within the midwest final weekend, falling at Illinois, 2-0, on Thursday evening and shedding at Northwestern, 3-0, on Sunday afternoon.

Bodmer within the Back 

Goalkeeper Olivia Bodmer is likely one of the finest within the nation, one in all simply three goalies nationally to be named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watchlist.

Bodmer owns 56 saves throughout 12 matches this season, with 4 shutouts, bringing her profession totals to twenty shutouts and 202 saves. 

Bodmer recorded her 2 hundredth profession save final weekend in turning into simply the ninth participant in program historical past to succeed in that mark.

Her 202 saves are ninth in program historical past, trailing Casey Murphy (216 – eighth).

Ramirez’s Instant Impact

Graduate switch Nata Ramirez has been the sparkplug for the Rutgers assault this season.

Ramirez paces the crew with eight factors, together with a team-high three objectives and a pair of assists – tied for the crew lead. 

Two of her three objectives (Indiana, Fairfield) had been sport winners.

Hailey’s Motor 

True freshman Lindsey Hailey has performed 1,147 of a potential 1,170 minutes this season, coming off the sphere for the primary time all season on Sunday towards Northwestern.

Hailey had been one in all simply two freshmen within the nation to have performed each minute for his or her crew as much as final weekend, a listing that’s now simply Troy’s Isabella Hartofelis.

Hailey has helped RU submit 5 shutouts in 13 matches, together with no photographs on objective allowed towards NJIT.

In addition to her defensive contributions, Hailey helped put away the win towards Fairfield when she pounced on a unfastened ball on a nook kick to offer Rutgers a 2-0 lead towards the Stags. 

The Captains 

Head coach Mike O’Neill named GK Olivia Bodmer, M Gabriela Gil and M/F Allie Post because the crew’s captains for 2025.  Bodmer is a two-time captain and one of many high goalies within the nation, being named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watchlist. Gil returns to the sphere this 12 months after lacking the final eight matches of 2024 with damage, however was nonetheless ranked the No. 32 freshman within the nation by TopDrawerSoccer and earned a Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor in October. Post has probably the most Rutgers expertise of any returner, coming into the season with 50 video games of expertise and 26 begins, proudly owning 5 profession objectives and 6 assists.

Fresh Faces

Against Princeton and Fairfield, RU put out a beginning XI that featured eight newcomers, together with three freshmen. 

Three of the crew’s six objectives have come from three completely different true freshmen – Kennedi Cotter, Lindsey Hailey and Sophia Stiles.

This 12 months, 9 Scarlet Knights have made their collegiate debut and 14 have made their Rutgers debut.

Big Ten Players to Watch 
Forward Ashley Baran, goalkeeper Olivia Bodmer and midfielder/ahead Nata Ramirez had been all named Big Ten Players to Watch by the convention. 

Baran led the Scarlet Knights in 2024 with six objectives, including an help to offer her 13 factors on the season, second-most on the crew. Starting all 21 video games at goalkeeper in 2024, Bodmer posted seven solo (eight mixed) shutouts, a 0.99 GAA and made 73 saves. Ramirez was named First Team All-Ivy and Second Team All-Region in 2024 after main the Columbia with each seven objectives and eight assists for 22 factors on the marketing campaign.

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