Women’s Soccer Faces Top Two Teams in WAC

Grand Canyon (6-6-2, 3-1-1 WAC) at Utah Valley (9-4-1, 4-0-1 WAC)
Date: Friday, Oct. 16
Time: 5 p.m. (MST)
Location: Orem, Utah – Clyde Field
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Grand Canyon at Seattle (8-2, 3-0-2 WAC)
Date: Sunday, Oct. 18
Time: 12 p.m. (MST)
Location: Seattle, Wash. – Championship Field
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PHOENIX – The Grand Canyon women's soccer team will look to carry its momentum built off a perfect 2-0 weekend at home in the Western Athletic Conference as they head out on the road for one of the toughest weekends in conference. The Antelopes begin their roadtrip in Utah for a matchup against an unbeaten Utah Valley in the WAC and then GCU will close out the weekend against another unbeaten team in the WAC, Seattle.

After a perfect weekend at home defeating Chicago State and Missouri-Kansas City, the Lopes are sitting in third place in the conference behind Utah Valley and Seattle. After a record day against Chicago State, freshman Deseree Doty moved up to ninth place in the WAC in points with 11 but and Milla Benedetti is now in sixth place with 14 points, scoring six goals along with two assists. Defender Kathryn Yancone continues to rack up the assists as she leads GCU with five assists, tied for third best in the WAC.

All-Time Series Record
GCU will face Utah Valley for the fifth time with an all-time record of 1-3-0 against the Wolverines. The Lopes will meet Seattle for 11^th time in school history with the Seattle winning nine matches.

Head Coach Stevie Gill Quote of the Week
"With only five conference games left and the top teams in the WAC standings playing each other home and away, it is anyone's guess who will pull through to win the WAC Championship. I love the fact that we are in the running to win the WAC and that we are in control of your own destiny. We are playing really well at the moment and we look forward to this weekend's games against two very talented teams in UVU and Seattle University. As long as we stick to our gameplan and come out ready to compete, I believe that we will be satisfied with the outcome. It would be great to repeat last year's run at the end of the season winning seven of our last eight games in conference.

Scouting Utah Valley
Utah Valley have been an offensive juggernaut this season, leading the conference in goals per game at 2.43 per game. They have scored a league leading 34 goals and 34 assists for 102 points. Kasandra Anderson leads the Wolverines this season with 15 points, fourth best in the WAC, scoring four goals along with a team-high seven assists. Leading UVU in goals this season is Sheridan Fox with six goals, tied for second best in the conference.

Scouting Seattle
The Redhawks have played exceptional soccer this season and they are led by Karli White who leads the WAC in points, scoring six goals along with five assists for a total of 17 points. Summer Mason is tied for the league lead in shots (45) and in third place in the conference is Julia Moravec with 16 points scoring five goals along with six assists. Moravec is second in the WAC with six assists and in goal for Seattle has been Brianna Smallidge posting 0.75 goals against average, putting her in first place in the WAC. Smallidge has recorded seven shutouts this season, the most shutouts in the conference in 2015.

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