Cougars Host Huskies

THIS WEEK

Washington State (10-4-3, 5-4-1 Pac-12) hosts Washington (12-6-1, 5-4-1 Pac-12) in the final regular season match for both teams…kickoff is 1 p.m., Friday at Lower Soccer Field…live stats on wsucougars.com…televised by Pac-12 Networks with Daron Sutton (play-by-play) and Tara Bilanski (analyst) providing the commentary.

LAST WEEK

Washington State lost a pair of 1-0 matches at home to No. 1 UCLA and USC, respectively…both goals came in the second half with the Trojans’ game-winner in the 90th minute.

WASHINGTON STATE HEAD COACH STEVE NUGENT

Cougar Head Coach Steve Nugent is in his first year at Washington State, and his fourth year overall as a head coach...owns 10-4-3 record with the Cougars and 40-27-9 overall…mentor at UNC Greensboro from 2011-13.

SETTING RECORDS

With a 1-0 victory at California, Oct. 3, Washington State tied, set or extended several records…Cougars set school record unbeaten streak at 15…extended school-record road unbeaten streak to 10 (9-0-1)…equaled best start through nine matches (set last season) at 7-0-2…tied a school record (set in 2009) with fifth-straight road win…won school-record sixth-consecutive Pac-12 road match seventh-straight Pac-12 match overall…Cougars recorded a school-record seven-consecutive clean sheets, (last three matches of 2013, first four of 2014)…did not yield a goal in school-record 798:15 before Hawaii scored in the first half, Sept. 7.

COUGARS SEEK RETURN TO POSTSEASON

Washington State has made three-straight NCAA Championship appearances, a first for the program…Cougars made five trips to the NCAA postseason in the last six years, one of 28 schools nationally to accomplish the feat…advanced to the second round twice in that span…last year, Washington State was eliminated by Illinois in the first round on penalty kicks to finish 14-3-4…victories tied a school record set in 1990 and equaled in 2009.

SERIES WITH THE HUSKIES

Washington State leads the series 11-7-5…Cougars have won the last two are 7-0-3 in the last decade…in Pullman, Washington State is 7-2-3, including 6-0-2 in the last eight (last Washington win was 1996)…last season, Kaitlyn Johnson scored in Seattle for a 1-0 victory.

SENIOR CLASS

The Washington State senior class has accounted for 48 victories, the most in school history during a four-year span…three-straight NCAA postseason appearances (2011-13), first for the Cougars…holds 32 spots on Cougar all-time team top 10 lists…own six individual career school records and 11 spots on WSU career top 10 lists…six conference or regional season awards…fourteen conference, regional or national weekly awards…eight Pac-12 All-Academic certificates.

SHARING THE WEALTH

Eleven-different Cougars have scored a goal this season…last time Washington State had this many goal scorers in a season was 2009 when a baker’s dozen found the back of the net.

NEW CONTRIBUTIONS

Freshman Chelsea Harkins has scored two goals…freshman Jordan Branch has one goal and one assist…junior Mariah Powers, who played her freshman season at Oregon, scored her first goal as a Cougar (overtime game-winner against the Ducks)…senior Jamie Schnieders notched her first-career goal…redshirt-junior Beau Bremer is tied for the team lead in goals (three), assists (three) and points (nine) after sitting out last season…redshirt-freshman Lianna Simms recorded an assist on the equalizer of a 2-1 victory at Colorado in her collegiate debut.