THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (4-6-1, 1-0 WCC) at LMU (2-1-6, 0-1 WCC)
Santa Clara (4-6-1, 1-0 WCC) at San Francisco (5-3-3, 0-1 WCC)

MATCH INFO
When: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.
Where: Los Angeles
Video: WCC Network
Live Stats: StatBroadcast

When: Saturday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m.
Where: San Francisco
Video: WCC Network
Live Stats: StatBroadcast

SERIES HISTORY
Santa Clara is 37-2-1 all-time against San Francisco.
The Broncos won a nonconference match at Stevens Stadium this season 4-0.

Santa Clara is 23-4-1 all-time against LMU.
The Bronco won last year's match 6-0.

NOTES

• Santa Clara has scored 14 goals with 19 assists. The Broncos have outshot their opponents 159-91 and 73-39 in shots on goal this season while playing four top-10 teams.
• Izzy D'Aquila is now tied for fourth in the country in goals with 11 and is tied for fifth with 24 points. Both marks are tops in the WCC. Farrah Walters has three goals and three assists as well for nine points. Annie Karich leads the team with four assists with Colby Barnett adding three. Lucy Mitchell, Makoto Nezu, Marisa Bubnis, Keren Goor, Alyssa Bourgeois, Lia Henkelmann, and Marlee Nicolos each adding one.
• Marlee Nicolos has appeared in seven games and has 13 saves with two shutouts. Kyle Foutch has appeared in five matches and made seven saves. She has one shutout. Felicity Baker has been appeared twice and has five saves.
• Izzy D'Aquila won three consecutive WCC Player of the Week awards. The first came September 19 after she scored a brace vs. No. 9 Stanford. She made it back-to-back with the September 26 honor for four goals against San Francisco. She completed the threepeat on October 3 after a hat trick against Pacific in the conference opener
• D'Aquila's is the 19th Bronco with a hat trick and the one against Pacific was the 31st in program history. She becomes the first Bronco with multiple hat tricks in a season since Morgan Marlborough had three in 2013.
• The eight days between her four-goal performance and hat trick were the second fewest in program history. Jacqui Little had six days between hat tricks in 1999.
• Farrah Walter's hat trick at Oregon on September 8 was the 29th in program history and the first since Kelsey Turnbow on October 20, 2017 against Saint Mary's. Turnbow was also a freshman at the time. Walters also becomes the 18th player in program history with at least three goals in a match.
• The match against Stanford was played in front of a season-high 3,411 fans.
• Santa Clara is coming off its second consecutive College Cup appearance in 2021 after winning the 2020 National Championship. The Broncos finished the season 15-5-3 overall and 8-1 in West Coast Conference play, securing their second-straight WCC title.
• They closed the season on fire, going 12-1-1 in the final 14 matches, featuring wins over No. 3 Pepperdine, No. 11 BYU, No. 20 Stanford, at No. 22 Georgetown, and at No. 4 Duke.
• Nine new players join the team, seven freshmen and two transfers, after having eight graduate. Izzy D'Aquila is the top returning scorer from last season when she scored eight goals and added four assists for 20 points. She was named Preseason All-WCC along with Sally Menti.
• D'Aquila and Menti were also named to the United Soccer Coaches Players to watch at forward and midfield.
• Menti was scheduled to miss the first part of the season while away with the U20 National Team playing in the World Cup but suffered a torn ACL and is out for the season. She was replaced on the US roster by Santa Clara freshman Annie Karich.
• The Broncos are without Holly Furphy, a freshman starter, due to a leg injury. She is out for the year as well.
• Santa Clara has been to 31 NCAA Tournaments, 12 College Cups (1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2020, 2021), and won two National Championships (2001, 2020). The program is just the seventh with two or more national titles. Only three teams have more.
• The Broncos have won the West Coast Conference 12 times (1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2013, 2020, 2021).
• Head coach Jerry Smith is in his 36th year. He has 523 career wins, the third most Division I wins in women's soccer history.
• The Broncos topped Pacific 3-0 to open WCC action on Saturday.

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