CONWAY, S.C. – Head coach Paul Hogan and the Coastal Carolina women's soccer team returns to the road to face Sun Belt Conference foe App State on Thursday night in Boone, N.C. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. ET. 
 
The Chanticleers enter the match at 1-5-2 overall and 0-1-0 in SBC play while the Mountaineers sit at 2-3-4 overall and 1-0-0 in conference play. 
 
COASTAL VS. APP STATE
Thursday will mark the 14th all-time meeting between Coastal and App State with the Chanticleers holding a 7-4-2 advantage over the Mountaineers. 
           
UNITED SOCCER COACHES PLAY WITH PRIDE WEEK
Coastal Carolina will take part in the United Soccer Coaches Play With Pride Week on Thursday. The sixth annual Play With Pride Week is Sept. 18-24, 2022. The initiative was developed in 2017 by the association's LGBTQ+ & Allies Coaches Community. The student-athletes will be wearing rainbow laces as soccer programs across the country join the United Soccer Coaches in showing their support for athletes and coaches of all sexual orientations and gender identities by wearing rainbow laces to support diversity and inclusion in the game.
 
LAST TIME OUT
CCU is coming off of a 1-0 loss to conference newcomer, James Madison last Friday. 
 
Coastal Carolina's Megan Brouse fired the Chants' first shot of the night towards the goal in the 12th minute but had it scooped up by the Dukes' goalkeeper. Gianna Irungaray fired the Chanticleers' best chance of the first half from the top of the box in the 33rd minute, which forced JMU's Alexandra Bloom to make the leaping save and tip the ball over the crossbar to keep the match scoreless. 
 
James Madison's Lidia Nduka found the back of the net on a pass from teammate Amanda Attanasi in the 55th minute. Nduka took the pass and fired a shot past a diving Coastal goalkeeper Hope Morrow and fired her shot into the right side of the goal to put the Dukes up 1-0.
 
CHANT TALK

• Megan Brouse leads Coastal Carolina with five goals and one assist (11 points), while Julia Ziegenfuss and Rose Behrmann have each tallied a goal. Taylor Tolson and Ziegenfuss lead the Chants with two helpers each, while Brouse and Tori Carnevale have also added an assist this season.
• In goal, Katelyn Kellogg has started five matches for the Chanticleers this season, logging 540:00 minutes and recording 22 total saves (.611). Fellow keeper Hope Morrow has seen action in the Chants' last two matches, picking up her first win on the road against Stetson (Sept. 11). 

 
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS

• App State's seven goals so far this season have come from four different Mountaineers, headlined by junior Izzi Wood's four goals (eight points). Shannon Studer, Stephanie Barbosa, and Anna Kate Highsmith each have added a goal, respectively. 
• The Mountaineers opened Sun Belt Conference play with a 1-0 victory over ULM as Shannon Studer notched the lone goal of the contest. Notably, App State played the final 41 minutes of that match with just 10 players. 
• After finishing the 2021 season at 7-11-1 overall and a 2-8-0 conference mark, App State was picked to finish seventh in the Sun Belt Women's Soccer Preseason Poll East Division. The Mountaineers earned 25 points in the poll. 

 
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