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Quincy McMahon
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UCLA Heads to Midwest for First-Time Match-Ups with Indiana, Purdue
September 18, 2024 | Women's Soccer
UCLA (6-2-1, 1-0-0) at Indiana (5-1-1, 0-1-0)
Date: Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 โ 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT
Location: Bloomington, IN (Jerry Yeagley Field)
Broadcast: B1G+
Live Stats: statbroadcast.com
UCLA (6-2-1, 1-0-0) at Purdue (5-2-1, 1-0-0)
Date: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 โ 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT
Location: West Lafayette, Ind. (Folk Field)
Broadcast: B1G+
Live Stats: statbroadcast.com
BRUINS MEET INDIANA, PURDUE FOR FIRST TIME
UCLA will play new conference foes Indiana and Purdue for the first time ever this week. The Bruins will play in Bloomington, Ind. against the Hoosiers first on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT before closing the week with a Sunday, Sept. 22 match at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT in West Lafayette, Ind. This is UCLA's first trip to Indiana since playing at Notre Dame in 2013.ย
MCMAHON RETURNS TO INDIANA
Senior defender Quincy McMahon will play in Indiana for the first time in her collegiate career. McMahon played her final two seasons of high school soccer at Guerin Catholic HS in Noblesville, Ind. and led her team to the State finals. She was the Gatorade State Player of the Year for Indiana in 2020-21 and played club soccer with Indiana Fire Juniors. ย ย
UCLA WINS CONFERENCE OPENER AT OREGON
UCLA rallied late to defeat Oregon, 2-1, in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams. Sunshine Fontes and Jordan Geis scored in the 80th and 83rd minutes, respectively, to give the Bruins the victory. Oregon broke the scoreless tie in the 77th minute after Taylor Bryan scored off a rebounded shot. The Ducks' lead was short-lived, however. In the 80th minute, Geis was fouled in the box, earning a penalty kick. Fontes, who was making her 2024 season debut after missing the second half of the 2023 season with a knee injury, stepped up to take the penalty kick and scored the equalizer. Geis came through with the go-ahead goal in the 83rd minute, taking a pass from Taylor Cheatham and scoring past Oregon goalkeeper Maddy Goldberg for her first collegiate goal.
GEIS NAMED BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF WEEK
UCLA forward Jordan Geis was named the Big Ten Women's Soccer Freshman of the Week, becoming the first Bruin player ever to win this award in the Big Ten Conference. Geis led UCLA to a 2-1 victory at Oregon in their Big Ten opener on Sept. 14. Just two and half minutes after Oregon took a 1-0 lead, the freshman from San Jose, Calif. rallied the Bruins, first drawing the game-tying penalty kick in the 80th minute and then scoring the game-winning goal in the 83rd minute for her first collegiate goal. Geis has played in all nine games for the Bruins this season, making eight starts, and leads the team in shots with 18.
FONTES MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Graduate student Sunshine Fontes made a triumphant return back to play after missing the second half of 2023 with an ACL injury. Seeing her first action of the season, Fontes scored the tying goal in the 80th minute of UCLA's comeback victory at Oregon on Sept. 14. Fontes' Bruin career began on the sidelines, as her 2019 season was lost rehabbing an ACL injury suffered in her final high school game. She earned Pac-12 All-Freshman honors in her return season in 2020, ranking third on the team with five goals scored, and in 2022, she led the Bruins' NCAA Championship team in scoring with 11 goals and 30 points. Fontes was the team's leading scorer in 2023 with five goals and 11 points before her injury at Washington on Sept. 28. ย ย ย
MEXICAN TRIO BACK WITH BRUINS
UCLA's trio of Mexican Under-20 National Team players - America Frias, Mariangela Medina and Val Vargas - are back with the Bruins after missing the first nine games while playing at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup. Mexico advanced to the round of 16, where they fell in extra time to the United States, 3-2. All three Bruins played in the game. Vargas started and scored a first-half goal. Frias was a second-half sub, and Medina came into the game late in the overtime. Just two minutes after entering the game, Medina was forced into a penalty kick situation and made the save to keep Mexico within one. ย ย
SCOUTING THE HOOSIERSย
Indiana went unbeaten in its first six games before dropping its conference opener, 3-0, to Ohio State last week. The Hoosiers rank sixth in the nation in scoring offense (3.43 average), eighth in points per game (10.0), 12th in goal differential (19) and 15th in total goals (24). Freshman Layla ranks 12th nationally in points (17) and is tied for the conference lead in assists with five. ย
SCOUTING THE BOILERMAKERSย
Purdue won its Big Ten opener over Northwestern in Evanston, 2-0, and hosts USC on Thursday. The Boilermakers have a trio of three-goal scorers in Gracie Dunaway, Chiara Singarella and Abigail Roy. Goalkeeper Emily Edwards has four shutouts and a 0.74 goals against average.ย
UCLA VS. BIG TEN
The Bruins are now 103-18-6 (.835) all-time against Big Ten teams and 27-5 (.844) vs. their new conference mates. UCLA has been extra formidable against the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, sporting a 12-2 record. The Bruins face Indiana and Purdue for the first time ever this week.ย
SHUTOUT CITY
With six shutouts in nine games, UCLA and goalkeeper Ryan Campbell are among the nation's defensive leaders. Campbell ranks second in the nation with six shutouts and is ranked 26th in goals against average (0.444). The Bruin team ranks 19th in shutout percentage (0.667) and goals against average (0.444). UCLA began the season with five consecutive shutouts, becoming just the second team in school history to accomplish the feat (the 2014 Bruins started out with six shutouts in a row). Campbell compiled 519 consecutive shutout minutes, just shy of Katelyn Rowland's single-season school record 638-minute shutout streak in 2014. ย ย
BRUINS EARN NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Five UCLA women's soccer players earned national preseason recognition ahead of the 2024 season. Senior defender Lilly Reale and graduate goalkeeper Ryan Campbell were selected to MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Best XI first team and the NCAA Division I Women's Players to Watch List. They were joined on the NCAA Players to Watch list by senior defender Quincy McMahon and graduate midfielder Meg Boade. Defender Nicki Fraser was selected to the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Freshman Team. On the conference front, Reale, Boade and Emma Egizii were selected to the Big Ten Players to Watch List.ย
WELCOME BACKย
UCLA returns seven starters from last season's conference championship team and seven all-conference players in Defensive Player of the Year Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sofia Cook, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Sunshine Fontes and Lexi Wright. Additionally, Val Vargas earned all-freshman honors a year ago. Wright, however, is out for the year with a knee injury.ย
The Bruins' senior class has been prolific. Reale, McMahon, Perry, Wright and Emma Egizii entered together in 2021 and won a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. They have combined for seven all-conference honors and have scored 102 points (32 goals and 38 assists) collectively while posting an overall record of 60-7-6. Reale is a two-time All-American and was the Honda Award winner in 2022, as well as the Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the 2022 College Cup.ย
Although not in that senior class, ย Fontes has also accomplished much in her time at UCLA. After redshirting the 2019 season with a torn ACL, she competed in the 2020 season and helped UCLA win the Pac-12 title, the first of three Fontes has been a part of (2020, 2021, 2023). She was the leading scorer for the 2022 NCAA champion Bruins with 11 goals and 30 points and now has 22 career goals, 14 assists and 58 points. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
IMPACT TRANSFERSย
UCLA welcomed four experienced transfers to the squad in 2024, including a pair of graduate transfers in goalkeeper Ryan Campbell (Stanford) and midfielder Meg Boade (Northwestern) who were named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Players to Watch List. Campbell was the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year and a first-team All-Region selection after recording 11 solo and two combined shutouts in 2023. She also led the conference with a 0.601 goals against average. Boade broke Northwestern's single-season assists record in 2023 with 14 assists and ranked second in the nation in assists per game with a 0.78 average. She is a two-time All-North Region and All-Big Ten honoree. UCLA also brought in a pair of former conference foes in senior midfielder Alice Barbieri (Oregon) and junior forward Lily Boyden (Washington State). Barbieri played in 55 games with 36 starts over her first three seasons and has nine career points. Boyden was a Pac-12 All-Freshman selection in 2022 after playing in 18 of 19 games for the Cougars and totaling two goals and three assists. Boyden did not play in 2023 after suffering an injury in the spring.ย
All four transfers have seen significant minutes in the Bruins' first nine games. Campbell has recorded a conference-leading six shutouts and holds a goals against average of 0.444. Boade has started all nine games, along with Campbell, and scored the game-winning goal against No. 16 BYU, along with an assist against UC Riverside. After coming off the bench in the Bruins' first two games, Boyden has started the last seven contests, and Barbieri has started in five games and played in all nine. ย
NO. 2 RECRUITING CLASSย
The Bruins boast Top Drawer Soccer's No. 2 recruiting class in the nation, led by six rookies ranked in the Top 50 in No. 12 Nicki Fraser, No. 15 Kamryn Winger, No. 19 Bella Winn, No. 39 Avery Robinson, No. 46 Kara Croone and No. 50 Paloma Daubert. Sammy Sanchez is also ranked at No. 64. Also joining the team are freshmen goalkeepers Layla Armas and Mariangela Medina and forward Jordan Geis. Five of the freshmen made their collegiate debuts in the season opener. Fraser, Winn and Geis earned starts, and Daubert and Sanchez logged double-digit minutes off the bench. Robinson made her debut against UC Riverside and recorded one shot and had a near-goal hit the crossbar at Cal Poly. Fraser is one of just five Bruins and the only underclassman to have started every game this season. Geis has played in all nine games and made eight starts, and her game-winner at Oregon was her first collegiate goal and led her to her first Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week award.
SISTER ACT
Sophomore forward Sophie Reale made her collegiate debut in the season opener after redshirting the 2023 campaign, playing 36 minutes and recording two shots, including one on goal. The game marked the first time Reale and her older sister Lilly have played together in their collegiate careers and the first time that two Bruin sisters have played in the same game since Anika and Karina Rodriguez played together in 2019. Both Reale sisters made the starting lineup for the first time in the Cal Poly match, with Lilly scoring the game-winning goal. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
NWSL BRUINS
A total of 20 UCLA women's soccer alumnae have been on NWSL rosters in 2024, including four from the 2023 squad. Reilyn Turner, a 99-point scorer for the Bruins and a 2023 All-American, was the No. 6 overall draft pick for Racing Louisville FC and is now playing with the Portland Thorns. Ally Lemos, who started every game of her two-year collegiate career and was a two-time all-region selection, was drafted by the Orlando Pride as the No. 9 overall pick. Ally Cook did not get drafted but earned a roster spot with the Chicago Red Stars. Cook ranked second on the team in scoring last season with nine goals and 19 points. Additionally, JaNae DeFazio was added to the Kansas City Current roster as a National Team replacement player in July and made her debut on July 28 at the Summer Cup against Pachuca. ย ย ย ย
FOLLOW THE BRUINS
Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook. The Bruins lead all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers with 114k. ย
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Date: Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 โ 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT
Location: Bloomington, IN (Jerry Yeagley Field)
Broadcast: B1G+
Live Stats: statbroadcast.com
UCLA (6-2-1, 1-0-0) at Purdue (5-2-1, 1-0-0)
Date: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 โ 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT
Location: West Lafayette, Ind. (Folk Field)
Broadcast: B1G+
Live Stats: statbroadcast.com
BRUINS MEET INDIANA, PURDUE FOR FIRST TIME
UCLA will play new conference foes Indiana and Purdue for the first time ever this week. The Bruins will play in Bloomington, Ind. against the Hoosiers first on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT before closing the week with a Sunday, Sept. 22 match at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT in West Lafayette, Ind. This is UCLA's first trip to Indiana since playing at Notre Dame in 2013.ย
MCMAHON RETURNS TO INDIANA
Senior defender Quincy McMahon will play in Indiana for the first time in her collegiate career. McMahon played her final two seasons of high school soccer at Guerin Catholic HS in Noblesville, Ind. and led her team to the State finals. She was the Gatorade State Player of the Year for Indiana in 2020-21 and played club soccer with Indiana Fire Juniors. ย ย
UCLA WINS CONFERENCE OPENER AT OREGON
UCLA rallied late to defeat Oregon, 2-1, in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams. Sunshine Fontes and Jordan Geis scored in the 80th and 83rd minutes, respectively, to give the Bruins the victory. Oregon broke the scoreless tie in the 77th minute after Taylor Bryan scored off a rebounded shot. The Ducks' lead was short-lived, however. In the 80th minute, Geis was fouled in the box, earning a penalty kick. Fontes, who was making her 2024 season debut after missing the second half of the 2023 season with a knee injury, stepped up to take the penalty kick and scored the equalizer. Geis came through with the go-ahead goal in the 83rd minute, taking a pass from Taylor Cheatham and scoring past Oregon goalkeeper Maddy Goldberg for her first collegiate goal.
GEIS NAMED BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF WEEK
UCLA forward Jordan Geis was named the Big Ten Women's Soccer Freshman of the Week, becoming the first Bruin player ever to win this award in the Big Ten Conference. Geis led UCLA to a 2-1 victory at Oregon in their Big Ten opener on Sept. 14. Just two and half minutes after Oregon took a 1-0 lead, the freshman from San Jose, Calif. rallied the Bruins, first drawing the game-tying penalty kick in the 80th minute and then scoring the game-winning goal in the 83rd minute for her first collegiate goal. Geis has played in all nine games for the Bruins this season, making eight starts, and leads the team in shots with 18.
FONTES MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Graduate student Sunshine Fontes made a triumphant return back to play after missing the second half of 2023 with an ACL injury. Seeing her first action of the season, Fontes scored the tying goal in the 80th minute of UCLA's comeback victory at Oregon on Sept. 14. Fontes' Bruin career began on the sidelines, as her 2019 season was lost rehabbing an ACL injury suffered in her final high school game. She earned Pac-12 All-Freshman honors in her return season in 2020, ranking third on the team with five goals scored, and in 2022, she led the Bruins' NCAA Championship team in scoring with 11 goals and 30 points. Fontes was the team's leading scorer in 2023 with five goals and 11 points before her injury at Washington on Sept. 28. ย ย ย
MEXICAN TRIO BACK WITH BRUINS
UCLA's trio of Mexican Under-20 National Team players - America Frias, Mariangela Medina and Val Vargas - are back with the Bruins after missing the first nine games while playing at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup. Mexico advanced to the round of 16, where they fell in extra time to the United States, 3-2. All three Bruins played in the game. Vargas started and scored a first-half goal. Frias was a second-half sub, and Medina came into the game late in the overtime. Just two minutes after entering the game, Medina was forced into a penalty kick situation and made the save to keep Mexico within one. ย ย
SCOUTING THE HOOSIERSย
Indiana went unbeaten in its first six games before dropping its conference opener, 3-0, to Ohio State last week. The Hoosiers rank sixth in the nation in scoring offense (3.43 average), eighth in points per game (10.0), 12th in goal differential (19) and 15th in total goals (24). Freshman Layla ranks 12th nationally in points (17) and is tied for the conference lead in assists with five. ย
SCOUTING THE BOILERMAKERSย
Purdue won its Big Ten opener over Northwestern in Evanston, 2-0, and hosts USC on Thursday. The Boilermakers have a trio of three-goal scorers in Gracie Dunaway, Chiara Singarella and Abigail Roy. Goalkeeper Emily Edwards has four shutouts and a 0.74 goals against average.ย
UCLA VS. BIG TEN
The Bruins are now 103-18-6 (.835) all-time against Big Ten teams and 27-5 (.844) vs. their new conference mates. UCLA has been extra formidable against the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, sporting a 12-2 record. The Bruins face Indiana and Purdue for the first time ever this week.ย
SHUTOUT CITY
With six shutouts in nine games, UCLA and goalkeeper Ryan Campbell are among the nation's defensive leaders. Campbell ranks second in the nation with six shutouts and is ranked 26th in goals against average (0.444). The Bruin team ranks 19th in shutout percentage (0.667) and goals against average (0.444). UCLA began the season with five consecutive shutouts, becoming just the second team in school history to accomplish the feat (the 2014 Bruins started out with six shutouts in a row). Campbell compiled 519 consecutive shutout minutes, just shy of Katelyn Rowland's single-season school record 638-minute shutout streak in 2014. ย ย
BRUINS EARN NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Five UCLA women's soccer players earned national preseason recognition ahead of the 2024 season. Senior defender Lilly Reale and graduate goalkeeper Ryan Campbell were selected to MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Best XI first team and the NCAA Division I Women's Players to Watch List. They were joined on the NCAA Players to Watch list by senior defender Quincy McMahon and graduate midfielder Meg Boade. Defender Nicki Fraser was selected to the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Freshman Team. On the conference front, Reale, Boade and Emma Egizii were selected to the Big Ten Players to Watch List.ย
WELCOME BACKย
UCLA returns seven starters from last season's conference championship team and seven all-conference players in Defensive Player of the Year Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sofia Cook, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Sunshine Fontes and Lexi Wright. Additionally, Val Vargas earned all-freshman honors a year ago. Wright, however, is out for the year with a knee injury.ย
The Bruins' senior class has been prolific. Reale, McMahon, Perry, Wright and Emma Egizii entered together in 2021 and won a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. They have combined for seven all-conference honors and have scored 102 points (32 goals and 38 assists) collectively while posting an overall record of 60-7-6. Reale is a two-time All-American and was the Honda Award winner in 2022, as well as the Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the 2022 College Cup.ย
Although not in that senior class, ย Fontes has also accomplished much in her time at UCLA. After redshirting the 2019 season with a torn ACL, she competed in the 2020 season and helped UCLA win the Pac-12 title, the first of three Fontes has been a part of (2020, 2021, 2023). She was the leading scorer for the 2022 NCAA champion Bruins with 11 goals and 30 points and now has 22 career goals, 14 assists and 58 points. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
IMPACT TRANSFERSย
UCLA welcomed four experienced transfers to the squad in 2024, including a pair of graduate transfers in goalkeeper Ryan Campbell (Stanford) and midfielder Meg Boade (Northwestern) who were named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Players to Watch List. Campbell was the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year and a first-team All-Region selection after recording 11 solo and two combined shutouts in 2023. She also led the conference with a 0.601 goals against average. Boade broke Northwestern's single-season assists record in 2023 with 14 assists and ranked second in the nation in assists per game with a 0.78 average. She is a two-time All-North Region and All-Big Ten honoree. UCLA also brought in a pair of former conference foes in senior midfielder Alice Barbieri (Oregon) and junior forward Lily Boyden (Washington State). Barbieri played in 55 games with 36 starts over her first three seasons and has nine career points. Boyden was a Pac-12 All-Freshman selection in 2022 after playing in 18 of 19 games for the Cougars and totaling two goals and three assists. Boyden did not play in 2023 after suffering an injury in the spring.ย
All four transfers have seen significant minutes in the Bruins' first nine games. Campbell has recorded a conference-leading six shutouts and holds a goals against average of 0.444. Boade has started all nine games, along with Campbell, and scored the game-winning goal against No. 16 BYU, along with an assist against UC Riverside. After coming off the bench in the Bruins' first two games, Boyden has started the last seven contests, and Barbieri has started in five games and played in all nine. ย
NO. 2 RECRUITING CLASSย
The Bruins boast Top Drawer Soccer's No. 2 recruiting class in the nation, led by six rookies ranked in the Top 50 in No. 12 Nicki Fraser, No. 15 Kamryn Winger, No. 19 Bella Winn, No. 39 Avery Robinson, No. 46 Kara Croone and No. 50 Paloma Daubert. Sammy Sanchez is also ranked at No. 64. Also joining the team are freshmen goalkeepers Layla Armas and Mariangela Medina and forward Jordan Geis. Five of the freshmen made their collegiate debuts in the season opener. Fraser, Winn and Geis earned starts, and Daubert and Sanchez logged double-digit minutes off the bench. Robinson made her debut against UC Riverside and recorded one shot and had a near-goal hit the crossbar at Cal Poly. Fraser is one of just five Bruins and the only underclassman to have started every game this season. Geis has played in all nine games and made eight starts, and her game-winner at Oregon was her first collegiate goal and led her to her first Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week award.
SISTER ACT
Sophomore forward Sophie Reale made her collegiate debut in the season opener after redshirting the 2023 campaign, playing 36 minutes and recording two shots, including one on goal. The game marked the first time Reale and her older sister Lilly have played together in their collegiate careers and the first time that two Bruin sisters have played in the same game since Anika and Karina Rodriguez played together in 2019. Both Reale sisters made the starting lineup for the first time in the Cal Poly match, with Lilly scoring the game-winning goal. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
NWSL BRUINS
A total of 20 UCLA women's soccer alumnae have been on NWSL rosters in 2024, including four from the 2023 squad. Reilyn Turner, a 99-point scorer for the Bruins and a 2023 All-American, was the No. 6 overall draft pick for Racing Louisville FC and is now playing with the Portland Thorns. Ally Lemos, who started every game of her two-year collegiate career and was a two-time all-region selection, was drafted by the Orlando Pride as the No. 9 overall pick. Ally Cook did not get drafted but earned a roster spot with the Chicago Red Stars. Cook ranked second on the team in scoring last season with nine goals and 19 points. Additionally, JaNae DeFazio was added to the Kansas City Current roster as a National Team replacement player in July and made her debut on July 28 at the Summer Cup against Pachuca. ย ย ย ย
FOLLOW THE BRUINS
Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook. The Bruins lead all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers with 114k. ย
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