BOULDER, Colo. – Sun Devil Soccer will conclude its current three-match road slate on Friday, Oct. 10, when Arizona State (9-2-2, 2-2-1) squares off against No. 24 Colorado (9-2-2, 3-1-1) at Prentup Field in Boulder, Colorado, at 6 p.m. MST. The Sun Devils are seventh in the Big 12 Conference, while the Buffaloes are fifth and are separated by just three points on the table.
Television
- Brad Thompson will call Friday’s conference match on ESPN+, which will also be available to watch on the ESPN app.
Series history
- Heading into Friday’s road contest, Arizona State holds a 7-6-2 record against Colorado, with four of those victories for the Sun Devils coming away from Tempe.
- This week’s match against Colorado will mark the third time over the last four seasons that Arizona State has played the Buffaloes in Boulder, Colorado. The Sun Devils have split the previous two road meetings with a 3-2 win in 2022, before dropping a 4-0 result in 2023.
- Throughout Arizona State’s Women’s Soccer history, the Sun Devils have beaten Colorado seven times, the eighth most wins against a particular opponent in program history.
- Entering Friday’s match, only five Arizona State Women’s Soccer student-athletes have ever played a collegiate soccer match against Colorado: Ava Wright, Pauline Nelles, Ella Opkvitne, Brianna Nunley and Meighan Farrell. Of those five, only Wright, Nelles and Farrell have played in the 2022 and 2023 matches against Colorado in Boulder.
Kicking off
- Arizona State will be looking for its first win on Oct. 10 since the 2004 campaign, when the Sun Devils beat Washington State, 2-1, in double overtime in Tempe. The Sun Devils are looking for their first-ever road win on Oct. 10. ASU will enter Friday’s match 0-6 in road matches on Oct. 10.
- Of the 36 states in which the Arizona State Women’s Soccer program has played at least one match, Colorado is the seventh-winning state for the Sun Devils with five victories.
- If she earns the starting assignment in goal for Friday night’s match, senior Pauline Nelles will start her 71st career match at Arizona State, which will tie her with Erin Reinke (1997-00) for the second most starts by a goalkeeper in program history. Chandler Morris (2011-15) holds the program record with 78 starts by a Sun Devil goalkeeper.
- Arizona State senior goalkeeper Pauline Nelles will enter Friday’s match tied with Chandler Morris (2011-15) for the most career clean sheets in program history with 24. Nelles (9 – 2023, 6 – 2024, 2025) and Morris (6 – 2013, 7 – 2014, 6 – 2015) are the only Sun Devil women’s soccer student-athletes to record six or more clean sheets in three or more seasons during their collegiate soccer careers in Tempe.
- Arizona State has not lost back-to-back regular-season matches during the 2025 season. In fact, the Sun Devils haven’t lost back-to-back regular-season matches in nearly a calendar year after dropping the final two games of the 2024 regular season on Sunday, Oct. 20, against Kansas (1-2) and Friday, Oct. 25, versus Arizona (0-1).
- A win over Colorado would give Arizona State its second win over a nationally ranked opponent this season – 2-1 over then-No. 10 BYU on Thursday, Sept. 19 – which would mark the first time since the 2020 season that the Sun Devils have beaten multiple ranked opponents during the same season. In 2020, ASU beat then-No. 10 USC, 1-0, in Tempe on Feb. 26, before knocking off then-No. 3 UCLA, 2-1, in overtime in Los Angeles on March 26. Furthermore, a win over Colorado would mark the first time since the 2015 campaign (W, 2-1 [2OT] at then-No. 18 Washington on Oct. 15; W, 4-1 at then-No. 23 Arizona on Nov. 6) that an unranked Arizona State squad knocked off multiple ranked opponents in the same season. It would be the ninth overall time in program history that ASU has beaten multiple ranked opponents during the same season.
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