LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (0-0) vs.
No. 4 COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES (0-0)
Saturday, Sept. 6 – 7 p.m.
LCU Soccer & Track Complex– Lubbock, Texas
 
LADY CHAP HEADERS

• Lubbock Christian begins their 2025 campaign Saturday, which features 18 total games, including nine at the LCU Soccer & Track Complex
• Admission to Saturday's game against No. 4 Colorado School of Mines will be free for all fans. LCU will begin charging for tickets starting with Monday's game against CSU-Pueblo
• The Lady Chaps return All-Region selection Ella Spiller, along with All-Conference honorees Bonnie Miller, Emma Best, Journee Curs and Claire Jacobson
• This will be the second season for Lubbock Christian to be led by head coach Alistair Caldwell. The LCU alumnus posted an 8-7-3 record in his first year at the helm
• The Lady Chaps were picked to finish seventh in the 2025 LSC Preseason Poll, receiving 392 total points in the poll, which was voted on by LSC head coaches, sports information directors and media members.

 
LOOKING BACK
The LCU women's soccer program entered a new era in 2024, with former Chaparral goalkeeper Alistair Caldwell taking over as the head coach of the program. In his first season, the Lady Chaps went 8-7-3, including a 6-5-2 record in conference play. LCU averaged 1.39 goals per game for the season, while limiting opponents to 1.22 goals per game. They put 55.7 percent of their 221 shots for the season on goal.
 
FRIENDLY FACES
Of the 33 total players on the 2025 roster, 19 of them are returning from last year's team. The five players with the most minutes played on the 2024 team are all back, including Best, Spiller, Miller, Casey Storer and Journey Curs.  Of the 25 goals LCU scored last season, 15 of those were scored by players back for the 2025 campaign. The Lady Chaps also return senior Lexi De La Cruz, who played only two games last season before suffering an injury. An All-LSC First Team selection in 2022 and Second Team pick in 2023, De La Cruz has 19 career goals at LCU.
 
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
The other 14 spots on the roster are filled by newcomers, including 12 freshmen and a pair of transfers. Of the 12 freshmen, 10 hail from the state of Texas, along with one from Arizona and one from Colorado. LCU's freshman class includes Logan Holloway, Sydney Smith, Kali Guy, Bella Newell, Kenzie Tosch, Manderigh Santos, Julia Pesina, Katianna Worm, Samantha Simpson, Nancy Taylor, Cameron Beecham and Aniah Cortez. The other two newbies are transfers from other Division II universities. Victoria Vidaurre is a Lubbock native who transferred in from fellow LSC team Sul Ross. The other transfer is Riley Espinoza, a New Mexico native who transferred from Missouri Western.
 
FAIR OR FOUL
In 2024, Lubbock Christian averaged just 6.78 fouls per game, leading the Lone Star Conference in that category. They tallied only 122 fouls for the season. Twice during the season they played an entire game while committing just one foul, while their season high of 16 came on Sept. 28 against St. Edward's. LCU opponents, meanwhile, committed 140 fouls on the season. The Lady Chaps were shown 11 yellow cards on the year, playing 10 of their games without any.
 
HAPPY HELPERS
Despite ranking seventh in the LSC in goals per game last season, the Lady Chaps averaged 1.22 assists per game, which was the fourth-best mark in the league. Of the 22 assists LCU recorded as a team last year, a whopping 18 (82 percent) were from players returning to this year's squad. Spiller was the team leader in assists a season ago, racking up seven in her freshman campaign. That number was also good for third-most in the LSC.  
 
HOME TURF
The Lady Chaps are opening up at home for the second-straight season and will play nine total home games this season. Last season they wen 4-3-2 on at their home field. The LCU Soccer & Track Complex was completed in August of 2020 and features an AstroTurf playing surface, a Musco lighting system to allow for night games and stadium seating for 500 fans. LCU's women's team has an all-time record of 68-34-22 all-time in home games. They have only posted losing records at home twice in 15 seasons. They did not lose a home game in 2015 (7-0-2) and won a program-high eight home games in 2019 (8-1-1).
 
SCOUTING THE OREDIGGERS

• Colorado School of Mines finished the 2024 season with a 20-1-2 record. Their first and only loss came in the national quarterfinal against Cal Poly Pomonoa
• LCU is not the first opponents of the season for the Orediggers, as they will play No. 18 Angelo State on Thursday before traveling to Lubbock
• Mines was picked to win the RMAC in the league's preseason poll, drawing 140 points and nine of the 13 first place votes
• The Orediggers return Bella Campos, who was the 2024 RMAC Co-Player of the Year and 2023 Freshman of the Year
• Mines averaged 2.65 goals per game last season while allowing just 0.57 

A WIN ON SATURDAY WOULD

• Be the 131^st in Lubbock Christian program history (130-98-34)
• Be the ninth under head coach Alistair Caldwell (8-7-3)
• Be LCU's first win in a season-opener since 2022 (3-0 at Western Colorado)
• Be the Lady Chaps' first win against Colorado School of Mines since the series begin in 2024 (0-1-0)