No. 18 USC Women's Soccer Returns Home to Face Washington, Washington State

LOS ANGELES - The No. 18 USC women's soccer team heads into the home stretch of the regular season, hosting Washington on Thursday and Washington State on Sunday.

HOW TO FOLLOW - Both games will be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network. Links for the broadcast and live stats can be found on the women's soccer schedule page at USCTrojans.com. In-game updates will also be available on Twitter by following @USC_Wsoccer.

SOCIAL MEDIA - Keep up with everything USC women's soccer this year by following the Trojans on all of their social media platforms. You can follow @USCWsoccer on Instagram and @USC_Wsoccer on Twitter, and like USC Women's Soccer on Facebook.

SERIES VS WASH - USC owns a 16-9-3 record against the Huskies. The teams played to a 2-2 draw in Seattle last season and USC picked up a 5-0 win the last time Washington was in Los Angeles (2020). The Trojans have won four of the last six in the series.

SERIES VS WSU - USC owns a 16-7-4 overall record against Washington State. The teams played to a scoreless draw in Pullman last year. Prior to that draw, USC had won seven in a row against the Cougars, including a 1-0 win in Los Angeles in 2020.

LAST WEEK - The Trojans played a pair of games on the road last week, picking up two draws against the mountain schools. USC opened the road trip with a scoreless draw at Utah and then played to a 1-1 draw at Colorado. Aaliyah Farmer scored the equalizing goal in the 75th minute.

PAC-12 WEEKLY AWARDS -
9/12 - Simone Jackson (offensive)
9/26 - Nicole Payne (offensive)
10/3 - Croix Bethune (offensive)
10/17 - Kayla Colbert (offensive)

IN THE RANKINGS - After starting the season at No. 15 in the rankings, the Trojans fell out following an opening-day loss at Purdue. USC jumped back into the rankings five weeks ago and have been as high as No. 8 in the coaches poll. The Trojans sit at No. 18 this week.

BALANCED ATTACK - USC has had eight different goal scorers so far this season, with six different players posting multiple goals through 12 games. 12 different USC players have recorded at least a point this season and 10 Trojans have posted at least one assist.

AWUJO/BURNS CALLED UP - Simi Awujo and Zoe Burns were both recently called up by the Canadian National Team for a pair of friendlies in Spain on Oct. 6 & 10. Awujo played in both matches as a substitute and Burns appeared in the Oct. 10 friendly as a sub. Canada beat Argentina 2-0 and Morocco 4-0.

U-20 WORLD CUP - USC had four players compete at the U-20 World Cup this summer, with Simone Jackson representing the USA, and Simi Awujo, Zoe Burns and Brooklyn Courtnall playing for Canada. Burns and Awujo started all three games for Canada and Courtnall started two of the three. Jackson came off the bench in two of the three games for the U.S., scoring the lone goal in the team's final game.

RECENT NATIONAL TEAM EXPERIENCE:
Olufolasade Adamolekun- Jamaica (Full)
Simi Awujo - Canada (Full/U-20)
Zoe Burns - Canada (Full/U-20)
Nicole Payne - Nigeria (Full)
Croix Bethune - U.S. (U-23)
Brooklyn Courtnall - Canada (U-20)
Simone Jackson - U.S. (U-20)

STAT RANKINGS -
Assists - Bethune (8) - 1st Pac-12/18th NCAA
Assists - Sampaio (6) - 3rd Pac-12
Assists/G - Bethune (0.62) - 1st Pac-12/7th NCAA
Assists/G - Sampaio (0.43) - 2nd Pac-12/42nd NCAA
Goals - Bethune (7) - 10th Pac-12
Goals/G - Bethune (0.54) - 7th P12
Goals/G - Jackson (0.42) - 11th P12
Points - Bethune (22) - 4th Pac-12/41st NCAA
Points/G - Bethune (1.69) - 2nd Pac-12/12th NCAA
Save% - Smith (0.820) - 3rd Pac-12
GAA - Smith (0.674) - 3rd Pac-12
Shutouts - Smith (5) - 3rd Pac-12

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