STEPHENVILLE, Texas – Tarleton State Soccer will close its season-opening three-game homestand with the first regular season "Power Four" Conference opponent in Stephenville, the Houston Cougars on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the Tarleton Soccer Complex.
 
Sunday's match will be streamed on ESPN+, with stats provided by Stat Broadcast. Follow @tarletonsoccer on Instagram, X and Facebook for live updates, highlights and content. As always, admission is free to all fans throughout the season to all games.
 
The Texans had a record setting night earning their first win of the season on Thursday against Austin College. As a team, Tarleton set new single game records with 46 shots, 23 shots on goal, 17 corner kicks, eight goals and six assists. Freshman Una Hlynsdóttir and junior Kaitlyn Flanagan each netted their first collegiate goals during the contest. Jenaya Brown knocked in the Texans' second penalty kick in program history.
 
Lauren Grissom set numerous individual records as well. Grissom notched the first hat trick in program history, ending the night with four goals. She is one of three players this season in Division I to accomplish that feat. Her eight points, ranks second in the nation in a single game.
 
Goalkeeper Mikayla Kendall leads the nation with 315 minutes played, the most by any goalie. She touts a 0.5 GAA with 13 saves. She is credited with one solo shutout and one combined shutout with Rylie Bloomfield on Thursday night.
 
Grissom ranks top 10 nationally in two different categories. On the season, her four goals is tied for the third most in the country and leads the WAC. She ranks eighth in the nation with eight points, and leads the league.
 
Jaycie Bass leads the WAC and ranks fifth in the NCAA with three assists. She notched her second career two-assist game with a pair against the Kangaroos on Thursday.
 
Tarleton joins Grambling State as the only NCAA Division I soccer programs to have played four games in the first week of allowed competition. The Texans three ties is the most by any school. In the nation, 16 schools have two ties so far this season.
 
The Texans are 6-5-5 against Texas schools in program history. Last season, the Cougars bested the Texans, 4-1 in Houston.
 
Head coach Pete Cuadrado is in his 21^st season as a collegiate head coach with Tarleton his third stop on his journey. He started his career at North Dakota State before spending time at Wyoming. During his career, he has amassed 178 wins, with 10 of those coming in the first two seasons of the Tarleton program.
 
The Texans welcome back 17 players from a season ago, filling their 27-woman roster with 10 newcomers. Tarleton's roster encompasses eight international-born players, the tenth most in NCAA Division I Women's Soccer. The Purple and White internation contingent includes one of nine D1 Australian-born players and two of 13 Iceland-born athletes.
 
Cuadrado has built his program from the ground up, with this year being the first season he has more upperclassmen on the roster, boosting 14 juniors and seniors and 13 freshman and sophomores. He has 13 players on the 2024 squad that were a part of his inaugural 2022 campaign.
 
Cuadrado retained both of his assistants from the previous two seasons and added a new face to the staff ahead of the 2024 campaign. Assistant coaches Rex Carrell and Delaney Castor will be on the sidelines for their third season, while Carrell was also a part of the building of the team in 2021, marking 2024 his fourth year with the program. Cuadrado added Stephenville native and retired professional soccer player Bailey Chaviers ahead of the season. Chaviers spent three years at The U, before heading overseas to play two seasons in Iceland. She then returned to the United State for the 2023 season but was injured during the preseason for the Chicago Red Stars.
 
Tarleton will take on a pair of road games next week starting at Prairie View A&M on Thursday at 7p.m. and closing at Texas A&M-Commerce on Sunday at 7 p.m.