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Women’s Soccer Begins Crucial Road Trip Sunday at Louisiana
10/16/2026 4:37:00 PM | Women's Soccer
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – With just four matches remaining in the regular season, Marshall Women's Soccer (7-3-4, 3-1-2 SBC) travels to Cajun Country to face Louisiana (9-4-2, 3-2-1 SBC) Sunday at 2 p.m. eastern, 1 central.
Sunday's match is the first of two consecutive on the road for the Herd with Georgia State looming next Thursday. The three aforementioned teams are all separated by three points or less in the SBC standings.
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COACH RAFA SIMOES
- Head Coach Rafa Simoes is in his third season leading the MU Women's Soccer program. The former associate with the Herd men's team is a 2018 graduate of the University of Charleston in West Virginia, where he played for then-head coach Chris Grassie.
- Simoes and the Herd had a resurgent 2025 season. In his second year as skipper for MU, Simoes led the team to win its most games in a decade (8) with four All-Conference selections, also the program's most since 2015.
PRE-MATCH NOTES
- Three of the Herd's final four matches in the regular season are on the road. While MU is unbeaten in Huntington this season (4-0-3), the team's 3-3-1 road record is one win shy of matching last season's four victories away from home, its most since 2015.
- Marshall forward Wiktoria Mikrut leads the Herd with six goals and 50 shots. Her goal against ULM in the team's last match proved to be the game-winner, her first with the team.
- With one more victory, the Herd would secure consecutive winning seasons for the first time in program history.
ABOUT THE RAGIN' CAJUNS
- Louisiana enters having lost two in a row following a six-match unbeaten streak. The Cajuns have a 4-2-2 record in Lafayette this season.
- Sophomore midfielder Miku Kurihara is second in the SBC with 11 goals this season. Kurihara was named the SBC Midfielder of the Year as a freshman a season ago.
- Louisiana came away with wins in each of the first two all-time meetings in 2023 and 2024.
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