BYU women's soccer at Montana Soccer Showdown

Provo, Utah (Sept. 2, 1999) - The 14th Ranked Cougars Continue The '99 Season On The Road With Games Against No. 20 Northwestern And Montana

The Cougars will be making their second road trip of the year to Missoula, Montana to participate in this year's Soccer Showdown. Saturday afternoon the play Northwestern and on Labor Day play hosts Montana. Both are 1 p.m. , start times

Cougars In Two Pre-Season Polls

• First-ever pre-season showing in Soccer America Poll- ranked 20th

• Ranked 14th by the NSCAA - highest pre-season ranking

BYU Returning Starters To Watch (1998 Stats)

• 20 Maren Hendershot - F, Sr (19G, 6A, 44PTS, 85 SH)

• 12 Sara Reading - F, Jr (9G, 4A, 22PTS, 69 SH)

• 2 Athelia Graham - D, Jr (2G, 3A, 7PTS)

• 21 Staci Reynolds - D, Jr (1G, 3A, 5PTS)

BYU Newcomers To Watch

• 24 Farrah Hofheins - 5-7 D, Fr (Alpine, UT/Lone Peak H.S.)

• 5 Rachelle Dixon - 5-6 MF/F, Fr (Bountiful, UT/Bountiful H.S.)

• 18 Jeni Williardson - 5-9 MF/F, Fr (Murray, UT/Murray H.S.)

Cougar 1998 Season Highs

• Largest home crowd - 1,495 on 9/11 against Colorado

• Most shots in game - 38 against Idaho State on 9/19

• Most goals in a game (individual) - Shauna Rohbock (4) against Colorado on 9/11

• Most goals in a game (team) - two games at home - (7) against Butler on 9/25 and against Hawaii on 10/09.

• First hat trick of the season - Maren Hendershot in game against New Mexico on 29/18

Cougar 1998 Final Quickie Stats

• Averaging 20 shots on goal per game

• Averaging 2.7 goals per game

• Average 5.6 corner kicks per game

BYU vs Northwestern Notes

The Wildcats, ranked 20th by the NSCAA are 1-0 on the season after a 2-0 victory over Northern Illinois on Aug. 27. Northwestern returns eight starters from last year's 16-5 season.

Series Against Northwestern

This will be the first meeting between the Cougars and Wildcats.

BYU vs Montana Notes

Montana will be playing their first game of the season when the Cougars and Grizzlies meet on Labor Day. The Grizzlies return seven starters from last year's 15-5-1 team.

Series Against Montana

The series is tied at 2-2. In the last meeting between BYU and Montana was in Provo on Sept. 26 with the visiting Grizzlies picking up a 4-1 victory handing the Cougars their first home loss in two seasons at South Field.

Coach Jennifer Rockwood Quotes

It was good for us to get that first game of the season under our belts. We had some good performances from our players . The two games this weekend will also be good tests for us.

We will be playing Northwestern for the first time. Thy are a very solid top twenty program with a great tradition in women's soccer. They have a good core of their players back this year., so we will have our work cut out for us against them.

We have developed a great rivalry against Montana over the past four years. They came to our home field last year and beat us. I think our team will be ready for them and it will be a great contest. We always have fun playing against Montana and they have a very talented team. Both of these matches are very tough and we will have to play our best soccer in order to pickup a win.

Up Next for the Cougars

BYU will open their home season on Thursday, Sept. 9 against Wisconsin Milwaukee at 5 p.m., at South Field. The Cougars stay at home hosting Cal Poly SLO on Saturday at 7 p.m., and Arizona on Monday, Sept. 13 at 4 p.m.