Football Season Almost Here

No. 6 TCU (0-0) vs. No. 24 Oregon State (0-0)

Arlington, Texas -- Cowboys Stadium (71,167)

Saturday, Sept. 4 -- 6:45 p.m. (CDT)

Television: ESPN -- [Brad Nessler (PBP), Todd Blackledge (color), Holly Rowe (sideline)]

Radio: TCU/ISP Sports Network -- WBAP 820 AM and 96.7 FM, 88.7 KTCU, GoFrogs.com (Yahoo) [Brian Estridge (PBP), John Denton (color), Jeff Williams (sideline)]

Spanish - AM 1270 Univision Radio - Miguel Cruz (PBP), Elvis Gallegos (color)

ABOUT THE GAME
*No. 6 TCU opens its 2010 campaign against No. 24 Oregon State in one of just two games featuring ranked teams on the opening Saturday of the season (No. 18 North Carolina vs. No. 21 LSU).
*The Horned Frogs have their highest preseason ranking in school history.
*TCU is 13-3 in its last 16 games against teams from BCS automatic-qualifying conferences.
*Since 2003, TCU's 12 wins over teams from conferences with automatic BCS bids trail only Navy (15) and Utah (14).
*In Oregon State and Baylor, TCU will face at least two opponents from BCS AQ conferences for the eighth consecutive season.

SERIES NOTES
*TCU and Oregon State are meeting for the first time on the gridiron.
*The Frogs and Beavers last faced each other in athletics competition on the baseball diamond in the 2009 Fort Worth Regional. TCU won 5-4 in the championship game to advance to the Super Regionals for the first time in program history.

VERSUS THE PAC-10
*TCU is 3-0 versus Pac-10 teams with Gary Patterson as head coach.
*The Frogs posted a 13-10 overtime win at Arizona in 2003, before a pair of victories over Stanford in a home-and-home series during the 2007 and 2008 campaigns.
*One of the more significant victories in Patterson's 12 seasons at TCU was a 28-19 win over Pac-10 member USC in the 1998 Sun Bowl. It came in Patterson's first year as the Frogs' defensive coordinator. TCU was 1-10 the previous season.
*The Frogs are 9-11 in their history versus Pac-10 foes.

NOTING THE HORNED FROGS
*TCU returns 16 starters (nine offensive, seven defensive) and 54 lettermen from last season's 12-1 team that made its first BCS appearance with a trip to the Fiesta Bowl.
*The Frogs closed the 2009 campaign with a No. 6 ranking and have finished in the top 10 three times in the last five seasons.
*TCU has won at least 10 games six times in the last eight years, including five seasons with at least 11 victories.
*The Frogs are 26-3 in their last 29 games.
*Last year's TCU squad posted the first 12-win regular season in program history. The 1935 national champions were 12-1 after a 3-2 victory over LSU in the Sugar Bowl.
*TCU had its first perfect regular season since the 1938 national championship team went 10-0, before closing the campaign at 11-0 after a 15-7 Sugar Bowl win over Carnegie Tech.
*Prior to its Fiesta Bowl loss, TCU had won 14 in a row for the nation's second-longest current winning streak at the time (Texas, 17). It was the Frogs' longest run of victories since winning the final three games in 1937 and all 11 contests in their 1938 national championship campaign.
*TCU's last seven victories have been by at least 27 points.

Weekend Results

TCU had several chances to find the back of the net Friday night, but dropped a hard fought 1-0 decision to No. 26 USC in front of 2,318 spectators at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium.

In a physical back and fourth match in front of the second largest crowd in stadium history, TCU missed on several scoring opportunities halfway through the first half.

Overall, TCU had nine different players record multiple shot attempts on Sunday. The Frogs, who played in front of 1,078 spectators, played a total of 25 players on Sunday.

TCU simply dominated Sam Houston State, holding a 10-3 advantage in corner kicks for the match. Pence, who faced constant pressure from the Frogs throughout the contest, made 14 of SHSU's 16 saves. Sophomore Kira Michelson-Bartlett, who replaced starter Kelsey Walters in the second half, posted three saves.

GameDay vs. USC

Follow The Horned Frogs
Fans not able to attend either home match this week can follow the games live by logging onto www.gofrogs.com. There you can find links to gametracker and watch the contest live via gofrogs.com. Both links are located on the women's soccer schedule page.

All regular season home contests will be broadcast live via webstreaming on gofrogs.com.

Scouting USC
USC enters tomorrow night's match coming off a 1-0 setback to No. 25 San Diego. After a scoreless first half, USD netted the gamewinner off a header in the 54th minute. The Trojans were led in the match by Carly Butcher, who posted two shots-on-goal. Overall, USC recorded eight shot attempts, including six on-goal against the Toreros.

USC opened the 2010 season as the nation's No. 19 ranked team in the NSCAA preseason poll and No. 20 in the Soccer America preseason poll. With their opening loss to San Diego, the Trojans slipped out of the top 25, but are still receiving votes in the NSCAA and SoccerTimes polls.

In 2009, USC made its fifth consecutive NCAA appearance in reaching the first round, falling in penalty kicks to Oklahoma State. Overall, four players remain from the Trojans' 2007 NCAA Championship squad. USC, who will travel to Texas on Sunday, was recently picked to finish third in the preseason conference coaches poll.

Calhoun Inching Closer To Record
With her two-goal outing against Texas Southern last weekend, junior Jordan Calhoun needs only three more goals to become TCU's all-time leading goal scorer. Calhoun, who now has 25 career goals, will look to surpass former Horned Frog Lizzy Karoly, who recorded 27 goals during her four-year career in Fort Worth.

Keeping Up With Recent Trends
Under head coach Dan Abdalla, TCU has made a habit of getting off to a fast start early in the season following a season-opening home victory. In each of the past three seasons, the Frogs have won their very next home game following a season-opening home victory. During that stretch, TCU has combined to outscore their second home opponent, 5-0.

Multiple Goal Scorers Mean TCU Victory
Since 2008, the Horned Frogs are 10-0-0 when a TCU player scores multiple times in a match. Upon further look, the Frogs are 6-0-0 when junior Jordan Calhoun finds the back of the net more than once in a contest. Calhoun continued that trend last weekend, scoring two goals in a 7-0 victory over Texas Southern.

TCU Soccer National Television

Two of our home matches will be shown on national television this year!!

The match against Oklahoma State on September 12th and the match against New Mexico on October 30th will be aired on The MTN. Network. The Oklahoma State game will be a live broadcast, while the New Mexico game will be tape delay.

The MTN. Network is carried by numerous cable providers including DirecTV on channel 616!

Quotes from the Game

The following are quotes from head coach Dan Abdalla and players following TCU's 7-0 victory over Texas Southern on Sunday.

Dan Abdalla
"We responded in the second half and were much sharper. Its now a matter of maintaining the intensity we had in the second half for an entire game. Overall, I was pleased that we were able to find a little bit of rhythm, but now we have to build on that and keep improving."

Jordan Calhoun
"This feels great. We came out a little slow in the first half, but we were able to regroup in the second half and come at them. Today was wonderful and I can't wait for USC this next Friday."

Katie Taylor
"It's good to be back home in front of our home fans. We kind of had a rough start to our season against Texas Tech, but we were able to come out today and play well in the second half. We had a slow start today, but we fixed things at halftime and were able to come back out and play our game."

Good start to the year

We kicked off the season this past weekend in Lubbock versus Texas Tech and then came home for the home opener against Texas Southern. Sunday was a great way to end the weekend; dominating Texas Southern in every dimension of the game. The final score read 7-0 but could have easily been double digits! Freshmen Kaitlin Hellmann scored her first goal as a Horned Frog along with Freshman Brittany Slyman.

The Horned Frogs looked dangerous the whole game scoring multiple goals in both halves. We take the field this Friday night versus the Lady Trojans of USC! The Jane Justin Field house is completely done and it is a very intimidating background making Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium easily one of the best college soccer stadiums in America!

2010 Season is almost here

We kick off the 2010 season finally!!

This weekend we travel to Texas Tech to play against one of our biggest in state rivals; in a game that is always a blast to watch and play in. Everyone is very excited to get after it and beat Tech at Tech this Friday night under the lights.

Then we return home to play Texas Southern in our first home opener with the Jane Justin Fieldhouse fully complete providing an awesome welcome present to all of the girls and fans. It should be a great weekend of opening matches and can not wait to really get after it this year.

#3 Goal of All Time

With the Jane Justin Fieldhouse opening this fall, GoFrogs.com reveals the No. 3 goal all-time in Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium history.

GoFrogs.com will give fans the chance to vote on the top 10 goals in Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium history. At the end of the week, women's soccer fans will have a chance to vote on what they believe is the top goal.

The No. 3 Goal
During the 2010 spring campaign, junior Alex Mechalske turned to her right and with one move blasted a shot from 30 yards out into the top half of the net against Texas Woman's University.

Please click on the link below to view the No. 3 goal in Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium history.

NO. 3: ALL-TIME GOAL

Football Stadium Renovations

The TCU football stadium will soon be renovated after this years football season. Go to this website to look at how the Horned Frogs will have a new home to dominate their opponents in.

http://www.stadium.tcu.edu/

The plans for the stadium are awesome. It will easily be one of the top stadiums in the country to watch great college football. The environment that the new stadium will provide is going to be exciting and fun for everyone. We can not wait until the renovations begin.

Camp Retreat

After a good morning session. The whole team and staff are headed down to a camp retreat outside of Waco. It is going to be a lot of fun and a good change of pace from training camp. We are going to play some soccer tennis, campfires, ropes course, and canoe races on the lake. All of the girls are excited to get away and enjoy some time off the field.

Training Camp Report

It is Day 6 of Training Camp and things are looking good. The girls are training hard and after a day of photo-shoots and video for this year's introduction pre-game video; the girls came out fresh and tackled fitness with a great attitude. Here are some pictures of today's training session, we are now off to the a training session under the lights at beautiful Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium with the Jane Justin Fieldhouse in the background nearing its full completion.

Hanks newest member of the coaching staff

TCU head coach Dan Abdalla announced the addition of two-time M.A.C. Hermann Trophy winner Kerri Hanks to the TCU women's soccer coaching staff on Friday.

"Kerri is a great addition to our coaching staff," said Abdalla. "She arguably had one of the greatest individual college careers in our sport. With her experience, she should only make our coaching staff and team better."

Hanks was a four-time All-America honoree at the University of Notre Dame. She is just one of 23 players ever in Division I women's soccer history to earn All-America accolades all four season's and the youngest recipient by class year of the Hermann Trophy, which is presented to the top female and male soccer player in NCAA Division I soccer.

The Allen, Texas, native, who is the only Division I women's soccer player ever to amass at least 73 goals and 73 assists in a career, finished her four years with 84 goals and 73 assists. Overall, she holds 67 records in the Notre Dame, BIG EAST Conference or NCAA record books, while also ranking in the top 25 on 10 NCAA single-season or career lists. Hanks, who ranks 13th all-time in the NCAA in career goals and is tied for second all-time in career assists, owns the fifth-longest goal scoring streak in NCAA history. She also recorded the most assists in NCAA Championship play with 20 and is only the third player in NCAA history to reach the 50 goals, 50 assists, milestone as a junior.

During her senior season, Hanks became only the fourth woman ever to earn the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy twice, joining the likes of Mia Hamm, Cindy Parlow and Christine Sinclair. She is also the first two-time national player of the year honoree in any sport in the 123-year history of Notre Dame athletics. Hanks was a two-time finalist for the "Best Female College Athlete" at the ESPN-sponsored ESPY Awards. She finished her final season in South Bend, Ind., ranked fifth in the nation in goals (20), tied for third in assists (15) and tied for second in points (55). Hanks, who closed her career earning the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, helped the Fighting Irish advance to the NCAA College Cup three times, including the National Championship match during both the 2006 and 2008 seasons.

Following her career at Notre Dame, Hanks, who played on the United States Under-23 National Team that won the prestigious 2008 Nordic Cup, was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Athletica in the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) Draft. In 2009, Hanks led New Jersey Sky Blue FC to its first Women's Professional Soccer Championship.

Cody Earns League Honor

Senior Chelsea Cody earned All League Honors yesterday. Cody lead the Oklahoma Alliance of the WPSL to a Big Sky Conference Championship, along with other TCU teammates: Kaylie Garcia, Jordan Calhoun and Kelsey Walters. Congratulations to Chelse Cody on earning All-League-Honors for a stellar summer performance.

The TCU women's soccer team continued its preparations for the 2010 season on Thursday with a morning session at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium.

GoFrogs.com sat down with senior midfielder Chelsea Cody following the morning practice to get her thoughts on preseason camp so far. Click on the link below for an exclusive interview with Cody.

TCU returns nine starters off a squad that played in the Mountain West Conference Tournament for a third-straight season. The Horned Frogs will be led up front this fall by Jordan Calhoun, who netted eight goals, while dishing out six assists in 2009. The Frogs also return senior Jackie Torda who burst onto the scene last season to earn second-team all-conference accolades.

TCU will open its regular season on Aug. 20 at Texas Tech.

Click here to view Cody's Interview

Video

First day of practices

We had a beatiful start to the day with this mornings training session. It went awesome the girls were so excited and it was a great first practice of training camp. We have another session tonight under the lights on a field that can only be described as amazing. Plus in the background the Jane Justin Field-House is almost done so the excitement just never ends.

Training Camp Starts Today

It is finally here! The girls are all back on campus today reporting for training camp and everyone is very excited. There are new faces around and the air is buzzing with energy, everyone has been working their tails off all summer and ready to go. The Jane Justin Fieldhouse is looking better everyday and here are the latest pictures that we took yesterday.