PORTLAND PILOTS (4-2-1, 0-0-0 WCC)
WEEK 5: vs. Seattle U Redhawks & George Fox Bruins
Seattle U Redhawks
(5-1-1, 0-0-0 WAC)
Day: Thursday
Date: Sept. 12, 2024
Time: 7 PM
Place: Portland, Ore.
Pitch: Merlo Discipline
Video: ESPN+
Stats: PortlandPilots.com
POR vs. SU
Total Sequence: 12-5-4
H: 9-1-1 • A: 3-3-2 • N: 0-1-1
Final: POR 1, @SU 0 (2023)
George Fox Bruins
(2-0-0, 0-0-0 NWC)
Day: Monday
Date: Sept. 16, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Portland, Ore.
Pitch: Merlo Discipline
Video: ESPN+
Stats: PortlandPilots.com
POR vs. GFU
Total Sequence: 0-0-0
H: 0-0-0 • A: 0-0-0 • N: 0-0-0
Final: N/A
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots host the Seattle U Redhawks and George Fox Bruins on Thursday, Sept. 12 and Monday, Sept. 16 respectively at Merlo Discipline. Begin time for each video games is about for 7 p.m.
• Examine PortlandPilots.com for reside stats and video choices.
LAST WEEK FOR THE PILOTS
• The Pilots went an ideal 2-0 final week, taking down the Sacramento State Hornets 4-0 and the Nebraska Cornhuskers 1-0
• Hailey Nonetheless scored twice in opposition to the Hornets whereas Cally Togiai and Brooke Miller every added targets. Nonetheless is the primary Pilot to attain a number of targets in a recreation this season.
• Nonetheless has scored 5 targets on the 12 months, which is essentially the most a Pilot has scored via the primary seven video games since 2016.
• Togiai scored the game-winner for the Pilots, hitting the winner off a penalty kick.
• The win for the Pilots was their first in opposition to a Large 10 staff because the final time they performed Nebraska in 2022.
• Togiai was named the WCC Offensive Participant of the Week for scoring two targets and including an help on the game-winning aim in opposition to the Hornets.
• The 4-2-1 begin for the Pilots marks the third 12 months in a row they’ve gone the primary seven video games with at the very least 4 wins.
STANDOUT STATISTICS
• The Pilots at present lead the WCC in save proportion (.857), shutout proportion (.571), aim differential (11) and goals-against common (.571). They’re additionally second in complete factors (37), targets (15), factors per recreation (5.29) and targets per recreation (2.14).
• Individually, Norris is at present first in goals-against common (.597), shutouts (3) and save proportion (.846). Nationally, her shutout complete ranks twenty ninth.
• Norris is fourth all-time for the Pilots in each saves (222) and shutouts (33) for a profession.
• Nonetheless’s 5 targets rank second within the convention and twenty ninth nationally, and her 10 factors can also be second within the convention.
• Togiai is fourth within the convention along with her 4 targets and fourth with 9 factors on the 12 months.
• A special Pilot has scored the game-winning aim for Portland in every win: Bagby (Hawaii), Miller (Sac State), Nonetheless (Stonehill) and Togiai (Nebraska).
LAST SEASON FOR THE PILOTS
• The Portland Pilots completed final season at 10-4-3 with a 4-3-1 report in WCC play. Their general report gave them their greatest successful proportion since 2013.
• With at the very least 10 wins every of the final two years, the Pilots have posted back-to-back seasons with at the very least 10 wins for the primary time in since 2013 as properly.
• It was the quickest the Pilots have reached 10 wins since 2018, Michelle French’s first 12 months answerable for the Pilots. It is also the third time beneath French that they’ve posted at the very least 10 wins on the 12 months.
• The Pilots have been dominant defensively final 12 months, main the convention in goals-against common (.529), save proportion (.839) and shutout proportion (.647). Nationally, they have been second in shutout proportion and ninth in goals-against common.
PRESEASON HONORS
• The Pilots have been picked to complete fourth within the 2024 Preseason Coaches Ballot and had two gamers chosen to the All-WCC Preseason Workforce: Bre Norris and Cally Togiai.
• Norris is coming off a stellar season that noticed her publish an .836 save proportion in 17 video games with a goals-average of simply.529 and 11 shutouts. She led the WCC in save proportion, goals-against common and shutouts, and he or she ranked eleventh and eighth nationally within the latter two classes.
• Norris’s stellar season gained her WCC Goalkeeper of the Yr and likewise noticed her make the United Soccer Coaches All-West Area First Workforce.
• Norris was additionally named for the second 12 months in a row a United Soccer Coaches Goalkeeper to Watch and for the primary time in her profession to the MAC Hermann Watch Record.
• Togiai, in the meantime, posted the second most factors of any returning Pilot with seven, tallying a aim and 4 assists. She was an All-WCC Second Workforce choice and an All-West Area third staff decide.
ALL ABOUT THE PLAYERS
• The Pilots have 18 gamers returning this season after dropping 9, together with seven newcomers for the season.
• 4 Pilots return that earned All-WCC honors final 12 months: Norris, Togiai, Katana Norman and Violet Rademacher.
• Norman was an All-WCC Honorable Point out choice as a defender, taking part in a key position as an out of doors again for the Pilots.
• Rademacher earned All-WCC Freshman Workforce honors after scoring 4 targets final 12 months in her first season of competitors. All 4 of these targets have been game-winners for the Pilots.
• Rademacher has the very best level complete of any returning participant for Portland.
• Amongst different notable returners is Shay Adams, who spent final season on the sideline with an damage however returns for a fifth 12 months in 20214.
• Adams was an All-WCC First Workforce choice in 2022 and an All-West Area Second Workforce choice.
• Seven of Portland’s 18 returners began in at the very least 10 video games final 12 months and 12 of them performed in at the very least 10 video games final season. Amongst these starters who haven’t but been talked about are Keeley Dockter and Elianna Wong.
• Dockter is a fixture within the midfield for the Pilots, scoring one aim on the 12 months in opposition to San Francisco. Her sister, Aliyah Dockter, joined the Pilots final season, taking part in in all video games with six starters.
• Wong frolicked alongside the again line for the Pilots final 12 months, bringing some versatility to the lineup. She tallied one help on the 12 months.
• Isabella Yakel performed 16 video games with 10 begins for Portland, taking part in each as a defender and a midfielder.
• Brooke Miller performed in all 17 video games for Portland final 12 months, scoring one aim as a ahead.
• Kayla Adams, Hailey Bagby and Nina Rhode additionally all performed at the very least 10 video games for Portland final season. Adams was certainly one of simply two Pilots to attain a number of targets in a recreation, doing so in opposition to San Diego.
ABOUT THE OPPONENTS
• The Seattle U Redhawks are 5-1-0 on the 12 months whereas the George Fox Bruins are 2-0-0.
• Final 12 months, the Redhawks went 10-9-2 whereas the Bruins have been 6-9-5.
• The Pilots performed the Redhawks — who superior to the WAC Match Championship — in Seattle, successful 1-0 off a aim from Togiai.
• Julie Woodward is in her twenty eighth season as head coach of the Redhawks whereas Laura Schott is in her fifth with the Bruins.
THE STAFF
• UP alum Michelle French is coming into her seventh 12 months as head coach of the Pilots.
• French has posted a 59-43-19 report in her six years as the top coach of Portland.
• French got here to The Bluff after spending 12 years teaching within the U.S. Soccer system, most just lately as an assistant coach with the Senior Girls’s Nationwide Workforce.
• With the Pilots, French (1995-98) was an All-American defender, a four-year starter, and a finalist for Nationwide Participant of the Yr as a senior in 1998; she led the Pilots to 3 NCAA Remaining 4 appearances as a participant, together with the NCAA title recreation in 1995.
• Affiliate head coaches Maite Zabala and Tina Frimpong Ellertson are of their seventh and second years with the ladies’s soccer program. They’re the primary and third affiliate head coaches in program historical past.
• The workers was named the West Area Employees of the Yr by United Soccer Coaches, the primary time they’ve earned the glory, in 2022.
• Frimpong Ellertson is a former US Nationwide Workforce participant and was Pac-10 Participant of the Yr again in 2004 with the Washington Huskies.
• Ken Krolicki joins the Pilots as an assistant coach after a 12 months with Yale’s males’s staff. Krolicki was a two-time All-Large Ten choice with Michigan State, spent two seasons with C.F. Montreal and likewise one 12 months with Portland Timbers 2.
THE HISTORY
• Portland has a powerful girls’s soccer custom and is certainly one of simply seven applications to win a number of NCAA Championships within the sport (2002, 2005).
• The Pilots have made eight Remaining 4 appearances (1994-96, 1998, 2000-02, 2005) they usually’ve gained 13 WCC Championships.
• The Pilots have superior to the postseason 22 occasions general.
• The Pilots led the nation in attendance for 10 consecutive seasons (2005-14); in 2018 UP ranked fourth within the nation in attendance per recreation (1,679) and have been sixth in general attendance (18,474).
PILOTS IN THE PROS
• The Portland girls’s soccer program has a protracted custom of sending gamers to the professionals, each in the US and in Europe.
• The Puget Sound space has been a preferred touchdown spot for Portland graduates as eight girls’s soccer alums have performed for the Reign.
• Megan Rapinoe is among the most well-known alumni, successful a nationwide championship with the Pilots again in 2005 earlier than turning into a mainstay of ladies’s soccer.
• The Portland Thorns declare the legendary Christine Sinclair, who has spent her total NWSL profession in Portland.
• Sinclair helped the Thorns win three NWSL Championships (2013, 2017, 2022), two NWSL Shields in 2016 and 2021 and the Girls’s Worldwide Champions Cup.
• Sophie Schmidt was a fixture for each Canada’s nationwide staff in addition to the NWSL, spending her remaining seasons with the Houston Sprint
• Taryn Ries performed most just lately with MSV Duisburg in Germany. Pilot alum Natalie Muth additionally at present performs with Duisburg.
• Ellie Walker signed her first professional contract final summer time with Portugese aspect S.C.U Toronese. and at present performs for SC Braga.
• Former Pilot Larkin Russell performs for Swedish aspect Vaxjo DFF.
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