BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Old Dominion women’s soccer team (4-2-2, 1-0-0 C-USA) will take on Florida Atlantic (5-4-1, 0-1-0 C-USA) on Friday, Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m. at the FAU Soccer Stadium.
ODU Women’s Soccer Helps Hurricane Irma Victims:
"This idea was brought to me by a few of our players and of course immediately our entire team was eager to support,” explained ODU head coach Angie Hind. “While school and soccer brings this team together, there are many things that touch our lives and having young women who are compassionate and giving is a true privilege to be around. As a team, we want to help those in need right now in Florida and therefore collected donations at our game against WKU and together we brought the goods to the Florida Food Bank for this road trip. We appreciate everyone's help in allowing us to help our friends in need in Florida."
Friday night will mark the Monarchs first road conference match of the season. Last Friday night, ODU opened up conference play with a 1-0 double overtime win over Western Kentucky. In fact, Old Dominion’s last four matches have been decided in double overtime, going 2-0-2. Most recently, ODU picked up a road win at Richmond, 2-1 (2 OT).
The ODU defense has allowed just two goals in the past 351 minutes of action, which has been instrumental to the program’s best start since 2009.
For the second time in three weeks, Old Dominion senior defender and captain Jackie Stroud was named the Conference USA Defender of the Week. Stroud played every minute of both of ODU’s double overtime victories last week. She scored her fourth goal of the season in the 15th minute in a road win at Richmond on Sunday off a set piece. Stroud still leads ODU in goals, as well as points (9).
Friday night will mark Florida Atlantic’s first home game in 27 days.
The Monarchs and Owls have met each of the last four years and ODU holds a 3-0-1 advantage. The first match between the two, in 2013, was a scoreless double overtime affair. Since, ODU won back-to-back 2-1 decisions and last year in Norfolk, the Monarchs defeated the Owls, 1-0.