{"id":49534,"date":"2025-09-26T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=49534"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:16:21","slug":"womens-soccer-with-alumni-in-town-terriers-look-to-win-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2025\/09\/26\/womens-soccer-with-alumni-in-town-terriers-look-to-win-home-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Soccer: With Alumni in Town, Terriers Look to Win Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featured Image by Jenny Chen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Ryan Abazari<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrapping up the month of September, the Boston University Women&#8217;s Soccer Team (3-4-2, 0-1-0 PL) welcomes Loyola Maryland (3-2-4, 0-0-1 PL) to Nickerson Field on Saturday for their first home game of the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With back-to-back undefeated Patriot League campaigns out the window, the Terriers look to break their five game winless skid and pick up their first league victory of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, the Greyhounds started the season in a similar fashion to the Terriers, winning three of their first nine games \u2014 and also failing to pick up a victory in their opening Patriots League match. However, the Greyhounds have yet to lose on the road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Patriot League preseason women\u2019s soccer awards Aug. 7, BU was predicted to finish first in the league and took home four individual awards, bringing high expectations for the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sophomore Bridget Carr was awarded Patriot League Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year \u2014 now looking for her first clean sheet in the league and her third on the year overall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting the back-line is senior Helene Tyburczy, who earned Preason Defensive Player of the Year. Offensively, senior Giulianna Gianino was recognized as Preseason Midfielder of the Year, and senior Margy Porta took home Preseason Offensive Player of the Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking place during BU\u2019s Alumni Weekend, the match serves as part of a broader celebration for all former Terriers returning to Commonwealth Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the match is also dedicated to Morgan\u2019s Message, an organization aiming to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health within the student-athlete community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers haven\u2019t dropped back-to-back conference matchups since 2019, and both current players and alumni are looking to keep that streak alive when they travel to West Point, New York on Wednesday to face the Army Black Knights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday\u2019s game kicks off at 1 p.m. at Nickerson Field in Boston, with streaming available on ESPN+. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image by Jenny Chen By Ryan Abazari Wrapping up the month of September, the Boston University Women&#8217;s Soccer Team (3-4-2, 0-1-0 PL) welcomes Loyola Maryland (3-2-4, 0-0-1 PL) to Nickerson Field on Saturday for their first home game of the season.\u00a0 With back-to-back undefeated Patriot League campaigns out the window, the Terriers look to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24119,"featured_media":49014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1039,1043],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49726,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49534\/revisions\/49726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}