TEMPE – For the second time in as many weeks, Sun Devil Soccer will host an opponent from the SEC when the LSU Tigers (1-3-0) make the trip to Arizona for a 7 p.m. MST kickoff at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 27 with the match set to be broadcast on ESPN+.
Thursday evening will represent Arizona State’s “World Cup Night” promotion. The Sun Devils are one of just seven Division I women’s soccer programs with 10-or-more international student-athletes: Maine (16), ULM (15), ASU (14), Memphis (13), FIU (11), UMass Lowell (11) and Alabama State (11). Thus, when including the United States, ASU will have nine different countries represented on “World Cup Night:” United States, Canada, England, Japan, Colombia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Norway and Brazil.
Television:
- Ryan Sykora (play-by-play) and Joe Lowery (analyst) will call Thursday night’s action on ESPN+, which will be available to stream on either the Disney+, ESPN or Hulu apps.
Series History:
- Thursday will mark just the fourth all-time meeting between Arizona State and LSU on a soccer pitch and first since the Sun Devils beat the Tigers, 5-2, in Baton Rouge on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024.
- Kierra Blundell (77:13) and Ella Kettles (77:34) are the only active ASU women’s soccer student-athletes to have played in the 2024 matchup.
- Thursday’s match will be the first time LSU has played Arizona State at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium since Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, when the then-No.17 Tigers beat the Sun Devils, 5-2, behind a brace from Alesia Garcia in 49 minutes of match action.
- Arizona State and LSU first met on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, when the Sun Devils bested the Tigers, 1-0, on a game-winning goal by Nicole Douglas in the 52’ in Baton Rouge.
Kicking Off:
- With an Arizona State win on Thursday night, Graham Winkworth (2017 – Present) will join Kevin Boyd (2007 – 16) as the only Sun Devil women’s soccer head coaches to win 80-or-more matches during their time at the helm of ASU.
- Boyd (90-85-23)
- Winkworth (79-69-26)
- Arizona State will be looking for its first win over a SEC women’s soccer program in Tempe since knocking off then-No. 6 Texas A&M, 2-1, on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014.
- A win over or a tie with LSU on Thursday would keep Arizona State unbeaten through the first four matches of a regular season for the eighth consecutive year.
- The Sun Devils will enter Thursday night’s non-conference match riding a 22-match home unbeaten streak against non-conference foes, a streak that dates back to the 2021 campaign.
- Arizona State last lost at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium to a non-conference opponent on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, when the then-No. 17 ranked LSU Tigers beat ASU, 5-2.
- The streak is the longest streak in program history, surpassing the previous program record (17) set from Sept. 17, 1999 to Sept. 21, 2001 and then matched on Sept. 7, 2008 to Sept. 9, 2021.
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