The Grand Canyon women's soccer team released its 2019 schedule, announced Monday by head coach
Derek Leader. The Lopes will play inside GCU Stadium 11 times this season, including a preseason scrimmage with in-state foe Northern Arizona.
The full 2019 slate can be found
here.
GCU will hit the road for nine games, as the Lopes kick off the season with a two-game trip to Florida.
A four-game homestand with UTEP, UT San Antonio, Northern Colorado and Colorado State follows before GCU heads to UC Santa Barbara to face the Gauchos for a single-game trip.
The Lopes host North Dakota and Cal State Northridge in its final two nonconference games at home before ending the nonconference slate at Omaha.
GCU will face all eight fellow WAC schools and will host Kansas City, Seattle U, Chicago State and CSU Bakersfield in Phoenix. The Lopes travel to New Mexico State, UT Rio Grande Valley, California Baptist and Utah Valley.
Following its 6-13-2 overall and 3-3-2 conference record in 2018, the Lopes welcomed 14 new faces to this year's squad while 18 players return from last season.