Buckeyes Open 30th Season at Kansas and Missouri

Ohio State vs. Kansas
Date: August 18, 2021
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
Venue: Lawrence, Kan. – Rock Chalk Park
Watch: ESPN+
Stay Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Recreation Notes: Ohio State | Kansas
Rosters: Ohio State | Kansas

Ohio State vs. Missouri
Date: August 22, 2021
Time: Midday ET
Venue: Columbia, Mo. – Audrey J. Walton Soccer Stadium
Watch: SEC Community+
Stay Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Recreation Notes: Ohio State | Missouri
Rosters: Ohio State | Missouri

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State opens its thirtieth season of girls’s soccer with a two-match street journey in opposition to Kansas and Missouri. The Buckeyes will tackle Kansas on Aug. 18 after which play at Missouri on Aug. 21. Each matches can be streamed on-line. The Kansas match can been seen on ESPN+ and the Missouri match can be streamed on SEC Community+.

• The Buckeyes have a 16-9-4 all-time document in season-openers however has not received their season-opener since 2017.
• Thursday’s matchup would be the first-ever assembly between Ohio State and Kansas. The Buckeyes are 2-3 all-time in 5 earlier conferences with Missouri. The Tigers received the newest assembly 3-1 in Columbus in 2019. In addition they received the one earlier assembly in Columbia, 1-0 in 2011.
• Ohio State head coach Lori Walker-Hock is in her twenty sixth season main this system. She is 271-188-54 because the Buckeyes’ head coach and has received a pair of Huge Ten common season titles.
• Walker-Hock returns to Lawrence, Kansas, and can coach in opposition to her former workforce for the primary time. She started her teaching profession at Kansas, main the Jayhawks throughout the 1995 and 1996 seasons. She was the primary coach in Kansas historical past.
• Seniors Talani Barnett and Kayla Fischer in addition to sophomore Sydney Jones had been all named Huge Ten Girls’s Soccer Gamers to Watch this fall. Barnett has performed probably the most sport of any participant on the roster. Fischer is within the high 15 in program historical past in each targets and assists. Jones was a member of the Huge Ten All-Freshmen Group final season and earned a spot within the U.S. U-20 Nationwide Group roster this summer season.
• Fischer was additionally named to the United Soccer Coaches listing of Forwards to Watch this season.
• The Buckeyes had been picked by the league’s head coaches to complete fifth within the Huge Ten Preseason Ballot.
• Final season, Ohio State was 9-9-2 general and made its fifteenth NCAA Match look.

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