Chicago State Women's Soccer Announces Inaugural Schedule

COURTESY CHICAGO STATE ATHLETICS

CHICAGO, Illinois  -- Chicago State's inaugural women's soccer schedule was released on Thursday (May 7). The 2014 19-game schedule features nine non-conference contests against seven different NCAA Division I conferences and 10 Western Athletic Conference matches.

Head Coach Tony Tommasi and the Cougars will begin their season with a road trip to Arkansas where they will play at Arkansas-Little Rock (Aug. 22) and Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Aug 24).

The team will then come back to the Windy City and play CSU's first ever home women's soccer games with a three-game home stand vs. North Dakota (Aug. 29), Cleveland State (Aug. 31) and Green Bay (Sept. 5). They follow this stretch with a neutral site contest at Nike Park in Naperville, Ill. with Northern Illinois (Sept. 12).

"Most schedules are done a year or two out," Tommasi said.  "But even with the time crunch we faced putting a non-conference schedule together, I believe we have a schedule that should help our development path."

Three consecutive non-conference games follow the Northern Illinois game before Chicago State's first WAC contest on Sept. 28 at home vs. Kansas City. It is the first of 10 WAC matches to close the regular season. The Broncos of UTPA come to town on Oct 3. UTPA will also be in their inaugural season of women's soccer in 2014.

The Cougars close the regular season with five of their seven contests on the road, including a three game road trip with Utah Valley (Oct. 24), defending WAC champion Seattle U (Oct. 26) and Kansas City (Nov. 1).

The WAC tournament will be held Nov. 6-9 at Seattle U.

Link to entire schedule

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