Sunday, August 17
Lubbock, Texas
7:40 p.m.
Texas Tech Athletics
vs
Youngstown State
No. 25 Tech welcomes Youngstown State Sunday
August 16, 2025 | Women's Soccer
Tech will seek its first 2-0-0 start since the 2018 season with a win in the home opener
LUBBOCK, Texas – After opening the season with an exhibition at Denver and a road contest at San Diego State, No. 25 Texas Tech Soccer returns home Sunday night for the home opener against Youngstown State.
The matchup against the Penguins will be the first all-time matchup between Tech and YSU in program history.
Winners of 19 of their last 21 games at the John Walker Soccer Complex (19-1-1), the Red Raiders will seek the programs first 2-0-0 start to a season since 2018 when Tech started 4-0-0.
Tech enters the Sunday matchup with YSU after Thursday's 4-0 win over San Diego State that featured four different goal scorers and three assists by Macy Blackburn. With the three assist performance Blackburn recorded her 11th total assist in the last 10 matches and the 36th of her career. With the victory the Red Raiders improved to 15-1-1 the last three seasons when Blackburn tallies an assist and to 23-1-2 all-time in the 26 all-time matches where the defender has tallied a helper.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 25 Texas Tech (1-0-0) vs. Youngstown State (0-1-0)
DATE: Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025
TIME: 7 p.m.
LOCATION: John Walker Soccer Complex (Lubbock, Texas)
BY THE NUMBERS:
26: Boasting one of the nations top defensive units the last two seasons, the Red Raiders enter the 2025 season having recorded 26 clean sheets since the start of the 2023 season. After recording 13 total shutouts in 23 matches in 2023, the Red Raiders followed it up with 12 shutouts in 22 matches in 2024. The Red Raiders are 31-2-6 the last two seasons when allowing a goal or fewer (losses to UT 1-0 in 2023 and to UNC 1-0 in 2023). Tech was 15-0-2 last season when allowing a goal or fewer.
2: While putting the ball in the back of the net is the name of the game, scoring twice has been critical for the Red Raiders success as since the start of the 2022 season, the Red Raiders are now 35-0-1 (lone tie at No. 7 BYU in 2023) when scoring two goals. When you expand that mark out to the beginning of the 2021 season, Tech is 44-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.
3: The all-time assist leader at Texas Tech, defender Macy Blackburn showed off the full bevy of skills on Thursday night against San Diego State as the defender recorded an assist off a throw in, a free kick service and corner kick service. The three assists tied Blackburn single-game record and brings her assist total to 11 over the last 10 matches.
QUICK KICKS:
• Fresh off a pair of 4-0 wins in the exhibition contest against Denver as well as the season opener at San Diego State Thursday night, No. 25 Texas Tech Soccer turns its attention to the home opener on Sunday night. Under head coach Tom Stone, the Red Raiders are a perfect 17-0-0 in non-conference home openers. The Red Raiders have outscored opponents 56-3 in those 17 contests.
• After Thursday's victory over SDSU, Stone improved to 14-3-2 in overall season openers and to 14-0-1 against non-P4 opponents in the season opener. The lone non-victory for the Red Raiders in that span was a 1-1 tie at New Mexico to open the 2023 season.
• In the victory over San Diego State, the Red Raiders struck twice in the first seven minutes behind a fourth-minute strike by Kaitlyn Giametta and a "bar-down" goal from Sam Courtwright just two minutes and 24 seconds. In the 34th minute the Red Raiders added a third goal before freshman Raleigh Greason out muscled the Aztecs backline for her first career goal.
• Texas Tech enters the 2025 season after recording another 15-win season and a second place finish in the Big 12 standings. The second place finish in the final Big 12 standings marks the third-straight season that the Red Raiders have finished at least second in the final standings, as the Red Raiders finished tied for second in 2023 before winning the league outright in 2023. Bolstered by the returns of All-Conference selections (2023) Kylie Bahr and Sam Courwright who missed the entire 2024 season with knee injuries, the Red Raiders were picked second in the Big 12 Preseason poll earning a pair of first place votes in said poll.
• In addition to the second place predicted finish, the Red Raiders also saw a league-best five players named to the Preseason All-big 12 squad and one player from each of the four positions (GK, D, MF and F) named to the team. That group included GK Faith Nguyen, Defender Macy Blackburn, Midfielders Peyton Parsons and Sam Courtwright, as well as forward Taylor Zdrojewski. Courtwright was named a 2023 Third Team All-American, a First Team Freshman All-American and the Big 12s Freshman of the Year.
• The injury came at a devastating time as Courtwright was not only forced to miss the entire season but also the U-20 FIFA World Cup where she would have played for the USYNT. In addition to returning 37 of 45 goals (82.2 percent), the Red Raiders also return eight of the 11 players who scored and the teams two leading scorers (Zdrojewski and Parsons) from a season ago. Tech also returns its starting goalkeeper, Nguyen, who shined in her first season after transferring from UCLA. Nguyen earned 10 shutouts, had a GAA of 0.91 and made 61 saves.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders head to California once again next week for a pair of matches against No. 16 Santa Clara (Thursday) and San Francisco (Sunday). First touch for Thursday's top-25 matchup is set for 9:30 p.m. (CT)/7 p.m. (CT).
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The matchup against the Penguins will be the first all-time matchup between Tech and YSU in program history.
Winners of 19 of their last 21 games at the John Walker Soccer Complex (19-1-1), the Red Raiders will seek the programs first 2-0-0 start to a season since 2018 when Tech started 4-0-0.
Tech enters the Sunday matchup with YSU after Thursday's 4-0 win over San Diego State that featured four different goal scorers and three assists by Macy Blackburn. With the three assist performance Blackburn recorded her 11th total assist in the last 10 matches and the 36th of her career. With the victory the Red Raiders improved to 15-1-1 the last three seasons when Blackburn tallies an assist and to 23-1-2 all-time in the 26 all-time matches where the defender has tallied a helper.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
MATCHUP: No. 25 Texas Tech (1-0-0) vs. Youngstown State (0-1-0)
DATE: Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025
TIME: 7 p.m.
LOCATION: John Walker Soccer Complex (Lubbock, Texas)
BY THE NUMBERS:
26: Boasting one of the nations top defensive units the last two seasons, the Red Raiders enter the 2025 season having recorded 26 clean sheets since the start of the 2023 season. After recording 13 total shutouts in 23 matches in 2023, the Red Raiders followed it up with 12 shutouts in 22 matches in 2024. The Red Raiders are 31-2-6 the last two seasons when allowing a goal or fewer (losses to UT 1-0 in 2023 and to UNC 1-0 in 2023). Tech was 15-0-2 last season when allowing a goal or fewer.
2: While putting the ball in the back of the net is the name of the game, scoring twice has been critical for the Red Raiders success as since the start of the 2022 season, the Red Raiders are now 35-0-1 (lone tie at No. 7 BYU in 2023) when scoring two goals. When you expand that mark out to the beginning of the 2021 season, Tech is 44-2-1 when scoring twice in a match.
3: The all-time assist leader at Texas Tech, defender Macy Blackburn showed off the full bevy of skills on Thursday night against San Diego State as the defender recorded an assist off a throw in, a free kick service and corner kick service. The three assists tied Blackburn single-game record and brings her assist total to 11 over the last 10 matches.
QUICK KICKS:
• Fresh off a pair of 4-0 wins in the exhibition contest against Denver as well as the season opener at San Diego State Thursday night, No. 25 Texas Tech Soccer turns its attention to the home opener on Sunday night. Under head coach Tom Stone, the Red Raiders are a perfect 17-0-0 in non-conference home openers. The Red Raiders have outscored opponents 56-3 in those 17 contests.
• After Thursday's victory over SDSU, Stone improved to 14-3-2 in overall season openers and to 14-0-1 against non-P4 opponents in the season opener. The lone non-victory for the Red Raiders in that span was a 1-1 tie at New Mexico to open the 2023 season.
• In the victory over San Diego State, the Red Raiders struck twice in the first seven minutes behind a fourth-minute strike by Kaitlyn Giametta and a "bar-down" goal from Sam Courtwright just two minutes and 24 seconds. In the 34th minute the Red Raiders added a third goal before freshman Raleigh Greason out muscled the Aztecs backline for her first career goal.
• Texas Tech enters the 2025 season after recording another 15-win season and a second place finish in the Big 12 standings. The second place finish in the final Big 12 standings marks the third-straight season that the Red Raiders have finished at least second in the final standings, as the Red Raiders finished tied for second in 2023 before winning the league outright in 2023. Bolstered by the returns of All-Conference selections (2023) Kylie Bahr and Sam Courwright who missed the entire 2024 season with knee injuries, the Red Raiders were picked second in the Big 12 Preseason poll earning a pair of first place votes in said poll.
• In addition to the second place predicted finish, the Red Raiders also saw a league-best five players named to the Preseason All-big 12 squad and one player from each of the four positions (GK, D, MF and F) named to the team. That group included GK Faith Nguyen, Defender Macy Blackburn, Midfielders Peyton Parsons and Sam Courtwright, as well as forward Taylor Zdrojewski. Courtwright was named a 2023 Third Team All-American, a First Team Freshman All-American and the Big 12s Freshman of the Year.
• The injury came at a devastating time as Courtwright was not only forced to miss the entire season but also the U-20 FIFA World Cup where she would have played for the USYNT. In addition to returning 37 of 45 goals (82.2 percent), the Red Raiders also return eight of the 11 players who scored and the teams two leading scorers (Zdrojewski and Parsons) from a season ago. Tech also returns its starting goalkeeper, Nguyen, who shined in her first season after transferring from UCLA. Nguyen earned 10 shutouts, had a GAA of 0.91 and made 61 saves.
UP NEXT:
The Red Raiders head to California once again next week for a pair of matches against No. 16 Santa Clara (Thursday) and San Francisco (Sunday). First touch for Thursday's top-25 matchup is set for 9:30 p.m. (CT)/7 p.m. (CT).
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