Pirates Welcome NJIT And Saint Joseph's To Owen T. Carroll Field This Week - Seton Hall University Athletics
The first 700 students in attendance at Thursday's match will receive a Seton Hall laptop sleeve.
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Following a 2-1 road win at Central Connecticut State on Sunday, the Seton Hall women's soccer team returns to Owen T. Carroll Field this week for two games starting with NJIT at 4 p.m. on Thursday followed by a Sunday fixture against Saint Joseph's at 1 p.m.
STREAM INFORMATION
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GAME PROMOTION
The first 700 students in attendance at Thursday's match will receive a Seton Hall laptop sleeve. The women's game will be followed by the Seton Hall men's soccer team's contest against Rider at 6:56 p.m.
NEWS & NOTES
- The Pirates are coming off of a 2-1 come-from-behind win at Central Connecticut State on Sunday, Seton Hall's third non-conference road win in its last five games dating back to last season.
- Both goals scored were the first in the careers of freshman Maddy DeCola (Mahopac, N.Y.) and senior Abbie Roberts (Bedfordshire, England).
- Sophomore Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.) and senior Naomi Welch (Livingston, Scotland) tallied their first assists of the season on the two scores and both were the fourth assists of their career.
- Seton Hall has seen steady improvement over the last three seasons and in 2021 the Pirates finished with six, their most in a season since 2012.
- The team's win at Villanova was the program's first over the Wildcats since 2013 and its first BIG EAST road win since 2011.
- Seton Hall's six goal outburst in a win over Iona was the program's most goals scored in a match since 2008.
- The Pirates return its top two goal scorers from last season in senior forwards Naomi Welch (Livingston, Scotland) and Julia Aronov (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) who both tallied four goals.
- Senior Grace Gordon (Chester Springs, Pa.) returns for her third season between the pipes for the Pirates where she has racked up 143 saves in 28 games over two full seasons.
- The Pirates are bolstered by a strong sophomore class that features Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.), who started and played in all 18 matches last season and tallied three assists and two goals, and Chiara Pucci (Munich, Germany) who made 10 starts and played in 821 minutes at center back.
- Head coach Josh Osit, a New Jersey native who has had success as a recruiter and tactician within Northeast Div. I soccer for a decade, enters his first season as the head coach at Seton Hall.
- Osit, who spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach at Columbia University, becomes the fifth head coach in the 28-year history of Seton Hall women's soccer.
- Between 2015 and 2017, the Lions were the only women's soccer program to finish top three in the Ivy league all three seasons.
- Columbia became a top-50 RPI team for the first time in program history in 2019 and reached as high as No. 28 in the RPI in 2021, the highest ranking in program history.
- Prior to his time at Columbia, Osit spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers, where he was a part of a Scarlet Knights program that received back-to-back NCAA Tournament at-large bids in 2012 and 2013 and won an NCAA Tournament first round match in 2012
- Rutgers' combined record over Osit's two seasons was 26-12-6 (.659) and featured an appearance in the 2013 AAC Championship final.
- On the club level, Osit has excelled with Players Development Academy (PDA) based in New Jersey where he helped produce over 20 players that have been called into U.S. Youth National Camps.
