SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

Thursday, August 17

Delaware 1, Syracuse 0

Towson 2, La Salle 1

UMass 2, Stony Brook 1

UAlbany 2, Hofstra 1

Campbell 2, High Point 2

USC Upstate 2, Charleston 2

Elon 3, Howard 3

Drexel 3, Fordham 0

William & Mary 4, Temple 0

Coastal Carolina 1, UNCW 0

Xavier 2, Northeastern 0

Friday, August 18

Robert Morris 1, Hampton 0

Lehigh 1, Monmouth 0

Sunday, August 20

Monmouth 4, Fairleigh Dickinson 0

Pitt 4, Drexel 1

William & Mary 0, Saint Joseph’s 0

Utah 2, Charleston 0

Liberty 1, Delaware 0

Stony Brook 0, Bryant 0

VCU 5, UNCW 0

Northeastern 3, Holy Cross 1

USC Upstate 3, Hampton 0

Old Dominion 2, Campbell 0

Towson 1, Howard 0

Elon 3, Wofford 0

Hofstra 1, Rutgers 0

Wednesday, August 23

Radford at Campbell (FloFC).......................................... 7 p.m.

Thursday, August 24

Towson at Mount St. Mary’s (ESPN+).......................... 2 p.m.

Lafayette at Stony Brook (FloFC)............................ 3:30 p.m.

William & Mary at Richmond (ESPN+)........................ 5 p.m.

San Jose State at Northeastern (FloFC)...................... 6 p.m.

Delaware at La Salle (ESPN+)......................................... 6 p.m.

South Carolina State at Charleston (FloFC)............... 7 p.m.

Hampton at Howard (TBD)............................................. 7 p.m.

UMBC at Drexel (FloFC).................................................. 7 p.m.

Elon at Longwood (ESPN+)............................................. 7 p.m.

Friday, August 25

Hofstra at Columbia (ESPN+)......................................... 2 p.m.

Monmouth at Princeton (ESPN+)................................. 7 p.m.

Saturday, August 26

Hampton at Saint Peter’s (SaintPetersPeacocks.com)...... 1 p.m.

Sunday, August 27

Stony Brook at Merrimack (TBD)............................... 12 p.m.

Liberty at UNCW (FloFC)................................................ 1 p.m.

Eastern Michigan at Northeastern (FloFC)................ 1 p.m.

VCU at William & Mary (FloFC)..................................... 1 p.m.

East Carolina at Campbell (FloFC)................................ 3 p.m.

Delaware at Penn (ESPN+)............................................. 6 p.m.

Charleston at Coastal Carolina (ESPN+)..................... 6 p.m.

Saint Joseph’s at Drexel (FloFC).................................... 7 p.m.

Monday, August 28

Hampton at Mount Olive (TBD).................................... 5 p.m.

WEEKLY AWARDS

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Olivia Pearse, Hofstra

Junior | Midfield | Seaford, N.Y. / Seaford

Pearse’s 88th-minute strike lifted Hofstra past Rutgers, 1-0, on Sunday night in New Jersey. The junior from Long Island launched a shot from outside the 18 to put one past the Scarlet Knights goalie and secure a win over a team ranked as high as No. 3 nationally last season.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Nora Green-Orset, William & Mary

Sophomore | Defense | Arlington, Va. / Yorktown

Green-Orset logged 176 of 180 minutes at center back to help William & Mary to its best start since 2017. The sophomore from Northern Virginia played 86 minutes in Thursday’s 4-0 win over Temple and all 90 in Sunday’s scoreless draw against Saint Joseph’s. William & Mary is undefeated through two matches for the first time since 2017 and shut out its first two opponents for the first time since 2011.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

Gabby Hoschek, Elon

Freshman | Midfield | Raleigh, N.C. / Crossroads Flex

Hoschek’s three-goal opening weekend led Elon to a 1-0-1 start to begin 2023. The freshman from Raleigh scored twice in her collegiate debut, a 3-3 draw at Howard, before tallying her third goal of the weekend in Sunday’s 3-0 win over Wofford. Hoschek is the first Phoenix to score three goals in the season’s first two contests since 2018.

NEWS AND NOTES

POWER BALL

CAA teams picked up a pair of wins over Power 5 opponents in the opening week of the 2023 season.

Delaware blanked Syracuse, 1-0, in Thursday’s season opener in Newark with Raychel Speicher scoring the game-winner. Hofstra followed on Sunday with a 1-0 win at Rutgers thanks to a late goal by Olivia Pearse.

The win over an ACC opponent was the CAA’s first since Hofstra over Boston College in 2020-21, while the victory over the Big Ten was the league’s first since Drexel beat Maryland in 2018.

PROGNOSTICATIONS

Monmouth received six of 13 first-place votes to finish as the top team in the CAA preseason poll.

Six teams - Monmouth, Northeastern, Hofstra, Towson, Drexel, and Campbell - received at least one first-place vote, with the regular season champion Hawks and tournament winner Pride collecting multiple selections.

Nine teams were represented on the 12-player Preseason All-CAA list, with Drexel, Northeastern, and Towson each earning two selections.

MS. WORLDWIDE

CAA programs were well-represented at this summer’s FIFA World Cup.

UNCW alum Katrina Guillou was part of the Philippines’ first team to play in the World Cup, fellow Seahawk Sydney Schneider suited up as a goalkeeper for Jamaica, and Hofstra’s Diane Caldwell represented Ireland.

WELCOME!

Campbell joins the CAA in 2023 as the league’s 13th member in women’s soccer, creating the largest table in league history. The Camels were Big South regular season champions in 2022.

All 13 teams will play each other with conference play beginning on September 10.

The league has expanded in each of the last two seasons, with Hampton, Monmouth, and Stony Brook beginning CAA play in 2022; Monmouth earned the regular season title and Stony Brook qualified for the CAA Championship as the No. 6 seed in the Hawks’ and Seawolves’ first year in the league.

EXPERIENCED LEADERS

Six of the CAA’s 13 head coaches enter 2023 with at least 10 years of overall head coaching experience and five at their current school:

     Julie Shackford | W&M | 30th (6th)

     Ray Goon | Drexel | 29th (27th)

     Simon Riddiough | Hofstra | 18th (18th)

     Chris Neal | UNCW | 16th (6th)

     Christian Michner | CofC | 14th (14th)

     Katherine Vettori | Towson | 12th (6th)

TEAM NOTES

• Kaleigh Backlund and Alyssa Tucker scored in Campbell’s season-opening draw at High Point.
• Avery Nassetta and Bella Antonio both scored in Charleston’s season-opening draw against USC Upstate.
• Delaware’s win over Syracuse was the first in program history over a Power 5 opponent and the CAA’s first against the ACC since Hofstra beat Boston College on March 14, 2021.
• Delaney Lappin’s goal at No. 14 Pitt was the 21st of her career, moving her into third in Drexel program history.
• Gabby Hoschek is the first Elon player with three goals in her first two games since 2018; Hoschek is the first freshman to achieve the feat since 2017.
• Hampton will play its home games on the campus of Old Dominion this fall due to facility renovations of the Pirates’ home field.
• Olivia Pearse’s 88th-minute strike helped Hofstra hand Rutgers its first August loss since 2012.
• Liza Suydam scored twice in Sunday’s win at FDU; Suydam was the second Monmouth freshman in as many years to score her first two goals in the game against the Knights, as Summer Reimet did it last year.
• McKenna Gardner has recorded five of UNCW’s 14 shot attempts through two contests.
• Avery Levangie scored twice in 34 minutes of action in Northeastern’s Sunday win at Holy Cross.
• Stony Brook kept its opponent off the board in three of its first four halves of the season for the first time since 2017.
• Towson was the lone CAA team to go 2-0 in the season’s opening weekend.
• William & Mary’s last eight victories dating back to the start of last year have been in shutout fashion.