THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
August 23 (Tuesday)
Louisiana Tech at LSU-Shreveport, 3:00 p.m. CT
August 26 (Friday)
Utah State at Colorado College, 4:00 p.m. MT
Prairie View at New Mexico State, 4:00 p.m. MT
Nevada at Idaho State, 4:00 p.m. MT
^San Jose State vs. UC Irvine, 4:00 p.m. PT
Seattle U at Idaho, 4:30 p.m. PT
San Francisco at Fresno State, 5:00 p.m. PT
Louisiana Tech at McNeese State, 7:00 p.m. CT
August 27 (Saturday)
#California at Hawai‘i, 7:00 p.m. HT
August 28 (Sunday)
Troy at Louisiana Tech, 1:00 p.m. CT
Utah State at Northern Colorado, 12:00 p.m. MT
Nevada at Utah, 1:00 p.m. MT
Houston Baptist at New Mexico State, 1:00 p.m. MT
Fresno State at Loyola Marymount, 1:00 p.m. PT
Idaho at Portland State, 1:00 p.m. PT
^San Jose State at UC Riverside, 2:00 p.m. PT
#North Dakota State at Hawai‘i, 7:00 p.m. HT
^ UC Riverside Invitational (Riverside, Calif.)
# OHANA Hotels and Resorts No Ka Oi (Honolulu)
Underline denotes home team
WAC TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES
Fresno State Bulldogs (1-1-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Fresno State split its two contests at the Aggieland Invitational at Texas A&M last week ... the team dropped a 4-2 decision to host No. 11 Texas A&M before taking a 4-0 shutout over UTSA ... the Bulldogs scored six goals by six different players over the two games ... Callie Hancock had a .800 shot on goal percentage against Texas A&M with one goal and one assists in the match ... Hancock finished the week with five points, three assists and one goal ... Katie DeVault led the defensive effort with 10 saves over the two matches ... she also recorded her first career shutout against UTSA ... this week, Fresno State returns home to host San Francisco on Friday ... the team then heads out to face Loyola Marymount on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Hawai’i Rainbow Wahine (0-1-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Hawai‘i gave its best shot at giving Michele Nagamine an upset win in her UH head coaching debut, before eventually succumbing to Washington State, 3-1, last week at the Waipi’o Peninsula Soccer Stadium ... UH scored early in the game, however, couldn’t overcome a second-half hat trick by the Cougars’ Eileen Maes ... playing before the second largest crowd in program history (2,850) an inspired Rainbow Wahine squad got off to a perfect start, scoring just 6:25 in the match ... Brittani Lum put home a header off a Rachel Domingo free kick from about 35 yards out to put UH up early and send the Waipi’o crowd into a frenzy ... the ‘Bows held that lead into halftime ... WSU then scored two more in the second half to secure the victory ... UH hosts North Dakota State and Cal this week.
Idaho Vandals (0-0-2, 0-0-0 WAC)
Idaho opened its season with back-to-back draws for the second time in school history (2003) … senior goalkeeper Liz Boyden set an Idaho single-game record with 14 saves on Friday, and junior Chelsea Small broke Idaho’s career shots record with nine attempts on Sunday to run her total to 232 … the two ties are the first successive draws at Idaho since 2006 ... Small scored her 22nd career goal on Sunday to help Idaho erase a 1-0 deficit in a 1-1 tie against UC Riverside ... she also led all players with nine total shots (four on goal) and bumped her career shots total to 232 to break the Idaho school record ... Small now also needs just three more goals to break Idaho’s career scoring record as she had one shot on goal in Idaho’s 1-1 tie against UC Santa Barbara on Friday ... this week, Idaho hosts Seattle U on Friday before traveling to play Portland State Sunday.
Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters (1-0-1, 0-0-0 WAC)
Louisiana Tech shutout its first two opponents of the season for the first time in school history ... LA Tech recorded the second most goals in a season opener with the 4-0 shutout victory over South Alabama last week ... the Lady Techsters also recorded a 0-0 tie at Southern Miss on Sunday ... Abby Sentz scored the first two goals of the game against South Alabama coming off the bench … Sentz only took two shots against South Alabama … she recorded three shots, one on goal at Southern Miss in first career start ... on the defensive side, Caitlin Updyke led LA Tech with two shutouts and 10 saves on the week ... she earned WAC Defensive Player of the Week honors for her efforts ... the two shutouts mark the eighth and ninth shutouts of Updyke’s career ... this week, Louisiana Tech travels to play at LSU-Shreveport on Tuesday and McNeese State on Friday before returning home to host Troy on Sunday.
Nevada Wolf Pack (0-2-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Nevada opened the season with a 0-2-0 record ... the Wolf Pack dropped a 3-0 decision at Pacific before falling 4-0 to Penn State in Saratoga, Calif. ... at Pacific, the Wolf Pack got a chance early, as newcomer Chrisalyn Fonte headed a ball just over the crossbar in the seventh minute off a corner kick by fellow freshman Madison Lorenzen ... Jenna Riddle, who made her first start between the pipes as a member of the Pack, played well early ... the junior, who transferred to Nevada from Arizona in 2008, made three saves in the first half and six overall ... against the 13-time Big 10 defending champion Penn State, Riddle got her second straight start in goal for the Wolf Pack, playing 79 minutes and making seven saves ... this week, Nevada travels to play Idaho State on Friday and Utah on Sunday.
New Mexico State Aggies (0-2-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
In the first-ever meeting against a Big 12 opponent, the New Mexico State soccer team fell at Texas Tech, 1-0, Aug. 21 ... sophomore goalkeeper Erin Wosick directed the Aggie defense with a season-high seven saves ... offensively, junior forward Yolanda McMillion led NM State with a pair of shot attempts ... sophomore midfielder Mary Kate Koziol and freshman forward Katelynn Tupponce also posted their first shots of the season ... NM State also fell at UTEP, 2-0, Aug. 19, in the 2011 season opener after a pair of late goals ... freshman forward Jennae Cambra led the Aggie offense with four shots and two shots on goal ... Wosick anchored the Crimson and White with five saves ... this week, NM State hosts Prairie View and Houston Baptist.
San Jose State Spartans (0-1-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Santa Clara’s Ellie Rice posted two first half goals for her team Friday, which were enough to survive a last-minute charge by the Spartans, as the No. 15 Broncos defeated San Jose State, 2-1, at Spartan Stadium in both teams’ season opener this past week ... Kelsey Lord got her shot in the waning seconds of the game, however, as she was dragged down by a Santa Clara defender in the box on a breakaway ... the ensuing foul call gave Lord a penalty kick with 29 seconds left on the clock and she converted for her first goal of the 2011 campaign and cut the score to 2-1 ... Lord’s goal erased Santa Clara goalkeeper Bianca Henninger’s clean sheet for the night ... San Jose State will head out on the road to face another top-20 opponent Friday when it takes on No. 17 UC Irvine ... the Spartans will face UC Riverside on Sunday, Aug. 28.
Utah State Aggies (2-0-0, 0-0-0 WAC)
Utah State opened the season with a pair of wins last week ... the Aggies defeated Weber State 1-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah before taking down Portland State 2-1 at home ... it is the third-straight season that the Aggies have started the season with a 2-0-0 record ... the win also makes USU unbeaten in its last five matches against Big Sky Conference teams ... senior forward Shantel Flanary scored both game-winning goals against Weber State and Portland State ... Flanary connected on two of her four shots on goal to score the only goal against the Wildcats and the second goal against the Vikings ... she scored two of USU’s three goals last week, earning her WAC Offensive Player of the Week honors ... senior defender Summer Tillotson had assists on both game-winning goals for the Aggies last week ... this week, Utah State travels to play Colorado College and Northern Colorado.
WAC NOTES
WEEK ONE RECAP
WAC teams went a combined 4-8-3 to open the season last week. Utah State went a perfect 2-0 to start the season with wins over Weber State and Portland State. Louisiana Tech went 1-0-1 with a win over South Alabama and a tie at Southern Miss. Fresno State went 1-1 with a win over UTSA in Texas. Idaho did not pick up a win, but it didn’t pick up a liss either. The Vandals tied both UC Santa Barbara and UC Riverside to open the season.
LA TECH OPENS SEASON WITH PAIR OF SHUTOUTS
For the first time in program history Tech has shutout the first two opponents of a season. The longest streak in school history is four games which has happened twice. The first was in the 2005 season and the second happened during the 2008 campaign.
USU’S SALMON-CHRISTENSEN NAMED LOWE’S SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATE
Senior midfielder Chandra Salmon-Christensen was one of 60 NCAA® men’s and women’s soccer student-athletes who excel both on and off the field who were selected as candidates for the 2011 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in collegiate soccer. The senior is the only player from the Beehive State to be a candidate for the award. She is also the only player from the Western Athletic Conference to be honored. Salmon-Christensen is the first Aggie soccer player to be a candidate for the award since USU great Lindsey Smart in 2009. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence - community, classroom, character and competition. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities. The 2011 candidate class includes 15 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Americans from last season. Half of the 60 have maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better. Ten of the candidates were recognized by the College Sports Information Directors of America as 2010 Academic All-Americans. Each of the 30 candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one male candidate and one female candidate who best exemplify excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition. 
For more information on all the candidates, visit www.seniorCLASSaward.com.