2024 Week 4 Preview

Erin Gordon and Harvard battled to a 0-0 draw in a defensive showdown against Massachusetts last week, but proceeded to roll to a 4-0 win over Northeastern in midweek and will look to produce that kind of performance against west coast heavyweights Pepperdine. The Waves knocked off national title contenders UCLA 1-0 last weekend, giving Harvard a healthy test as they look to build towards the gauntlet that is Ivy League play. Gordon should once again be heavily involved, having played every minute for the Crimson prior to the win over Northeastern, in which the freshman had a 14-minute early mark with the game well and truly secured. Should either team grab the victory, it will be a massive boost to the résumé and potentially a result they can point to should they secure a favourable draw in the NCAA Tournament in two months’ time.

Courtney Butlion and Towson dominated Delaware State last week before securing a draw with Florida, but a lopsided result approaching the 9-0 they posted against the Hornets appears unlikely as the Tigers face Maryland and Penn this week. Maryland have been the model of inconsistency to this point, sitting at 2-2-2, but that does also mean they have only two losses in their six games to this point. Although the Terrapins are picked to finish 17th in the 18 team Big Ten (don’t ask how that works), they have been competitive in all six games to this point. Meanwhile, Penn, having started 0-3-1, will be desperate to get a win on the board and start building as they, like Harvard, look to build towards Ivy League conference play. Neither of these games will be remotely easy, but they are certainly opportunities for Towson to pick up wins, and with Butlion in good form after a goal and an assist last week, the Western Australian could once again be instrumental in her team’s success.

Abbey Burns has also been in outstanding form, and although UAB fell to Coastal Carolina last week, the Blazers have been there or thereabouts in every game despite sitting at 1-2-1 through four games. SEC side Ole Miss come to town this week, with the Rebels having lost to high-flying Michigan State and Memphis, but defeated Southern, McNeese, and Georgia State, giving the team from Oxford a 3-2 record but with all five results going exactly as expected. This match may serve as a litmus test for both teams, but more importantly, it will hopefully see Burns bang home a couple more goals after racking up three already this season.

Greta Kraszula and VCU have put themselves through a gauntlet of a non-conference schedule so far this season, and things don’t get any easier for a Rams side sitting at 0-4 as they take on Virginia in their first game of the week. The ACC heavyweights sit 5-0 and have already knocked off fellow national powerhouse Penn State, so this will almost certainly be the toughest test the Rams face before Atlantic 10 play starts on September 19. Greta Kraszula once again shapes to be absolutely crucial for VCU, having started all four games this season and played in excess of 80 minutes in three of the four games to this point.

Full Schedule

NCAA Division I

Alabama State (Grace Norbury, Madison Chambers)

This week: @ Jacksonville St. – 10:00am, Friday 6 September; v West Ga. – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

Bellarmine (Teagan Douglas)

This week: v Indiana St. – 9:00am, Friday 6 September

Charleston Southern (Eve Tiktikakis)

This week: v South Carolina St. – 5:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Col. of Charleston – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Coastal Carolina (Tahlia Voskanian)

This week: @ Belmont – 9:30am, Friday 6 September; @ Lipscomb – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Dartmouth (Kate Ryan)

This week: @ Pittsburgh – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Robert Morris – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Denver (Isabella Chidiac)

This week: @ Colorado – 11:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Southern Utah – 4:30am, Monday 9 September

Detroit Mercy (Chantelle Symes)

This week: v Chicago St. – 5:00am, Friday 6 September; v Western Mich. – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Fresno State (Shivani Battaglia)

This week: v CSU Bakersfield – 12:00pm, Monday 9 September

Harvard (Erin Gordon)

This week: @ Boston U. – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; v Pepperdine – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

High Point (Meg Roden)

This week: v UNC Greensboro – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; @ UNCW – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Incarnate Word (Montanna Mathews)

This week: v North Texas – 10:00am, Saturday 7 September

Little Rock (Candice Kilderry)

This week: @ Central Ark. – 11:00am, Friday 6 September

Long Island (Isabella Stein)

This week: v Dominican (NY) – 5:00am, Friday 6 September

Loyola Maryland (Ava Blizzard)

This week: v Hofstra – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

Maine (Grace Wilson, Lara Kirkby)

This week: v Stonehill – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Massachusetts (Hannah Peric)

This week: v Northeastern – 6:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Bryant – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Mississippi Valley State (Jacquelline Kambere)

This week: No games.

Morehead State (Lilly Bailey, Natasha Tanner)

This week: @ Wright St. – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; v Northern Ky. – 2:00pm, Sunday 8 September

Northwestern State (Caitlin Le Roux)

This week: v Jackson St. – 9:00am, Saturday 7 September; @ Alabama A&M – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Old Dominion (Alice Thompson)

This week: v George Mason – 8:00am, Friday 6 September; v Longwood – 8:00am, Monday 9 September

Oregon State (Katie Godden)

This week: v Nebraska – 12:00pm, Friday 6 September; @ Seattle U – 6:00am, Monday 9 September

Pacific (Libby Davy)

This week: @ Weber St. – 11:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Utah St. – 5:00am, Monday 9 September

Purdue (Zoe Karipidis)

This week: v Alabama – 9:00am, Friday 6 September

Rider (Eloise Jones)

This week: @ Fairfield – 3:30am, Sunday 8 September

Saint Francis (Claire Scarpin, Aimee Benton)

This week: No games.

Saint Peter’s (Sophie Cook, Wilma Thodhlana)

This week: @ Marist – 9:00am, Sunday 8 September

Santa Clara (Holly Furphy)

This week: v Cal Poly – 6:00am, Monday 9 September

Seton Hall (Grace Mitchell, Sarah Mitchell)

This week: v NJIT – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Siena (Iona Snape)

This week: v Iona – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Southern (Yazmin Baird-Watson)

This week: v La. Christian – 9:00am, Saturday 7 September; v Troy – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

Stetson (Camila Madriz Figueroa)

This week: @ Oklahoma – 10:00am, Friday 6 September; v South Carolina St. – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Tarleton State (Adelaide Wyrzynski)

This week: v Oral Roberts – 10:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Grambling – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Molly Arens, Emma Bates)

This week: @ UTEP – 11:00am, Friday 6 September; v Prairie View – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

Towson (Courtney Butlion)

This week: v Maryland – 8:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Penn – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

UAB (Abbey Burns)

This week: v Ole Miss – 10:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Southern Miss. – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

UMBC (Annaliese Grove)

This week: v American – 9:00am, Friday 6 September

UNC Asheville (Mercedes McNabb, Jasmine Barry)

This week: @ Furman – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Wake Forest – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

VCU (Greta Kraszula)

This week: v Virginia – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Maryland – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

NCAA Division II

Barton (Brigitte Sander)

This week: @ Wingate – 7:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Mars Hill – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Cal Poly Pomona (Georgia Rink)

This week: v Vanguard – 9:30am, Friday 6 September; v Biola – 12:00pm, Sunday 8 September

Cal State Dominguez Hills (Katie McDermott)

This week: @ Academy of Art – 5:00am, Friday 6 September

Caldwell (Liz Warne)

This week: @ Staten Island – 3:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Mansfield – 6:00am, Sunday 8 September

Carson-Newman (Amber Wilkinson)

This week: @ Columbus St. – 4:00am, Friday 6 September; v Union (TN) – 7:00am, Sunday 8 September

Catawba (Ashley Hughes)

This week: v Embry-Riddle (FL) – 9:00am, Saturday 7 September; v Georgia College – 5:00am, Monday 9 September

Charleston (WV) (Ciara Casamento, Kate Duffy)

This week: v Gannon – 5:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Kutztown – 5:00am, Sunday 8 September

Concord (Caitlin Webster, Holly Gray)

This week: @ Kutztown – 2:00am, Friday 6 September; v Gannon – 2:00am, Sunday 8 September

Drury (Keva Culkin)

This week: @ Northern St. – 4:00am, Saturday 7 September; @ Bemidji St. – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Fort Lewis (Renee Junna)

This week: @ Lubbock Christian – 9:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Eastern N.M. – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Francis Marion (Ashley Jordan)

This week: v USC Aiken – 7:00am, Monday 9 September

Franklin Pierce (Erin Keyt, Brianna Trappett)

This week: @ Mercy – 8:00am, Saturday 7 September; @ Queens (NY) – 8:00am, Monday 9 September

Gannon (Paige Taylor)

This week: @ Charleston (WV) – 5:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Concord – 2:00am, Sunday 8 September

Glenville State (Summer McShane-Cale)

This week: v Lake Erie – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Lincoln Memorial (Jade Brown)

This week: v Southern Wesleyan – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September

Mississippi College (Erin Stamatopoulos)

This week: @ Nova Southeastern – 8:00am, Friday 6 September; @ Palm Beach Atl. – 5:30am, Sunday 8 September

Oklahoma Christian (Layla Lopez, Chloe Walker)

This week: No games.

Seton Hill (Maddie Teakle)

This week: v West Liberty – 2:30am, Friday 6 September; v Lock Haven – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Southern New Hampshire (Dakota Thyssen, Imogen Noon)

This week: v Bridgeport – 2:00pm, Friday 6 September; v Mercy – 5:00am, Monday 9 September

Thomas Jefferson (Olivia Riddel)

This week: v New Haven – 4:00am, Friday 6 September

UNC Pembroke (Sarah Bonifant)

This week: @ North Georgia – 3:00am, Friday 6 September; v Lenoir-Rhyne – 4:00am, Monday 9 September; v Lenoir-Rhyne – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

USC Beaufort (Alice Webster)

This week: @ Southern Wesleyan – 7:00am, Friday 6 September; v King (TN) – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

UT-Tyler (Mackenzee Stokes)

This week: v Rogers St. – 8:00am, Friday 6 September; v East Central – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September

UTPB (Lara Brewis)

This week: @ Our Lady of the Lake – 3:00am, Friday 6 September

Valdosta State (Sienna Havill)

This week: v Middle Ga. St. – 8:00am, Friday 6 September; @ North Greenville – 9:00am, Sunday 8 September

West Virginia State (Emma Farrelly)

This week: v Bloomsburg – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Wingate (Sophie MacAlpine)

This week: v Barton – 7:00am, Friday 6 September; v Mount Olive – 7:00am, Monday 9 September

NCAA Division 3

Bethany College (Gabby Hicks)

This week: @ Heidelberg – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Dean College (Miro McIntyre Clere)

This week: v Lasell – 6:00am, Saturday 7 September

Lesley (Maya Spatafore)

This week: @ MIT – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Millikin University (Lila Castillo Burgess)

This week: v Aurora – 8:00am, Sunday 8 September

Monmouth College (Brontë De Zwart)

This week: v Rockford – 2:00am, Sunday 8 September

SUNY Oneonta (Lisa Schinckel)

This week: v Marywood – 2:00am, Sunday 8 September; v Susquehanna – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Southern Maine (Kayla O’Connor)

This week: @ Westfield St. – 5:00am, Sunday 8 September

NAIA

Briar Cliff (IA) (Tamzin Hilton)

This week: @ Clarke (IA) – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September

Corban (Ava Hayes)

This week: @ George Fox – 12:00pm, Saturday 7 September

Cumberlands (Ky.) (Georgia Martell)

This week: v Indiana Wesleyan – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Jamestown (N.D.) (Olivia Cullen, Gaby Sarkis)

This week: @ Central Methodist – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September; @ William Woods – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

Keiser (Fla.) (Zara Board, Georgia Little, Zoe Edwards)

This week: v Tennessee Southern – 2:00am, Monday 9 September

Midway (Holly Johnstone)

This week: No games.

Reinhardt (Ga.) (Riley Welsh)

This week: v St. Andrews (NC) – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Rio Grande (Saskia Vos)

This week: @ Mount Vernon Nazarene (OH) – 9:00am, Sunday 8 September

Rocky Mountain (MT) (Piper Adams-Jones, Georgia Dean, Tara Appleby, Ellen Gaudry)

This week: No games.

Science and Arts (Emali Goulas)

This week: @ Hastings – 8:30am, Sunday 8 September

St. Andrews (NC) (Charlotte Weinand)

This week: @ Reinhardt (Ga.) – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

St. Thomas (Fla.) (D’arne Boato)

This week: No games.

Webber International (FL) (Claudia Vincent)

This week: No games.

Xavier (La.) (Amelia Suma)

This week: @ Mobile (Ala.) – 8:00am, Sunday 8 September

NJCAA D1

Barton (Mary Kahraman)

This week: @ Western Iowa Tech – 7:00am, Sunday 8 September

Dodge City (Jada Lamond)

This week: v Cowley – 7:00am, Monday 9 September

Eastern Florida State (Aimee Longhurst)

This week: @ Pasco-Hernando State – 6:00am, Saturday 7 September

LSU Eunice (Gabby Stone)

This week: v Western Texas – 9:30am, Saturday 7 September; @ Dallas College – Eastfield – 2:30am, Sunday 8 September

Laramie County (Giselle Heck)

This week: @ Western Wyoming – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

Monroe College (Emily Mackie)

This week: No games.

Murray State (Sofia Lopez, Kellie McMahon)

This week: @ Rose State – 4:00am, Monday 9 September

Seminole State (OK) (Sophia Doumos)

This week: v Eastern Oklahoma State – 5:00am, Monday 9 September

Seward County (Ryshelle Taylor)

This week: @ Garden City – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September

Tyler (Ella Palframan, Anna Powell, Sienna Powell, Layne Chapman)

This week: v Jacksonville – 8:00am, Saturday 7 September; @ Blinn – 8:00am, Sunday 8 September

Western Wyoming (Isabelle Kenna)

This week: v Western Nebraska – 5:00am, Saturday 7 September; v Laramie County – 3:00am, Sunday 8 September

NJCAA D2

Heartland (Morgan Stanton)

This week: v Rock Valley – 5:00am, Sunday 8 September

Johnson County (Sophia Abbott, Montana-Rose Currey)

This week: @ Central – 4:00am, Sunday 8 September

Mineral Area (Thea Draganova)

This week: v State Fair – 9:00am, Sunday 8 September

Northeast (Samantha Bayer, Amelia Bingley, Hannah Chetcuti, Talia Sanders)

This week: @ Parkland – 7:00am, Saturday 7 September; v Holmes – 3:00am, Monday 9 September

3C2A

Feather River (Lillian Pettersen)

This week: @ Merced – 6:30am, Saturday 7 September

USports Canada

UNBC (Scarlet Thomas)

This week: @ Mount Royal – 10am, Saturday 7 September; @ Victoria – 6am, Monday 9 September

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Founder of College Matildas. An Australian women's football fan who also happens to be a college sports fan. Often found at A-League Women or NPLW games.

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