Soccer Hosts Huskies to Close Out 2025 Season

The Ducks conclude the 2025 season by hosting No. 8 Washington Sunday at noon in a match that will be televised by Big Ten Network.

ONE TIMERS
• Through 17 games, Oregon has allowed 10 fewer goals (20) that it did at the same point last season (30).
• The Ducks have one more shutout (5) than they did a year ago (4).
• Oregon is fifth in the conference in saves per game (4.00).
• The Ducks are seventh in the Big Ten in shots per game (13.35).
• Oregon welcomed 23 newcomers to the team for the fall - 9 freshmen and 14 transfers (6 from UC Davis).
• Among active players, Caeley Goldstein has played the second-most career minutes in goal in the NCAA (6,885). She's also seventh in saves (317) and seventh in shutouts (24). Last Sunday against Minnesota, she recorded her first save on a PK.
• Carly Cormack scored two goals in the first 25 minutes to help Oregon play to a 2-2 draw with Penn State on Oct. 12. Cormack now leads the team in goals (3) and points (8). Cormack also found the net at Hawai'i (Aug. 24), scoring a goal on the same field where she won the 2024 high school state title.
• In that Penn State match, sisters Jayde and Savannah Holley were in the starting lineup together for the first time in college.
• Oregon celebrated nine seniors on Senior Day last Sunday. Those making their final appearances at Papé Field this Sunday against Washington include forwards Taylor Bryan, Sydney Chura and Carys Hall, defenders Sydney Hennessey, Jayde Holley, Bryana Pizarro and Jasmine Young, goalkeeper Caeley Goldstein and manager Tori Villarreal.
• Oregon has two alums playing professionally in the NWSL: Chardonnay Curran (Chicago Red Stars) and Leah Freeman (Bay FC).
• Tracy Joyner now has a 129-87-32 career record. Prior to Oregon, she built winning programs at a junior college (42-15-7 at Santa Rosa JC), at an NCAA Division II school (36-25-12 at San Francisco State) and at the DI level (49-37-8 at UC Davis).

CLUB 80
Taylor Bryan reached the vaunted 80 career matches played mark last Sunday against Minnesota. This Sunday, goalkeeper Caeley Goldstein will play in her 80th career match.

GOLDSTEIN SAVES PK AGAINST MINNESOTA
Three days after a close, 1-0 loss to No. 15 Wisconsin (Oct. 16), Caeley Goldstein saved a penalty kick for the first time in her career to help Oregon preserve a 0-0 draw with Minnesota. It was Goldstein's fourth shutout of the season and 24th of her career. Miya Alamares attempted a career-high four shots against the Gophers.

SISTER ACT
Sisters Jayde and Savannah Holley are just the second sisters to play soccer for the Ducks. They were in the same starting lineup for the first time in college Oct. 12 at Penn State. The other set of sisters, Karen and Kathryn DePorter, player together at Oregon in 1996-97. Jayde Holley led the Big West in assists last season with eight.

INTERNATIONALS & CALL-UPS
A number of Ducks were called up to national teams or pro training academies in the summer of 2025. Sophomore midfielder Carly Cormack was invited to the U.S. Women's National U-19 Team Camp in Fayetteville, Ga. Freshman defender Verónica Navarrete Cevada was called up to the Nicaraguan Senior National Team for CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifiers. Sixth-year defender Bryana Pizarro is a member of the Puerto Rican National Team pool. Additionally, sixth-year forward Taylor Bryan was called to the Portland Thorns Academy First Team training camp.

CONNECTION TO UO SOCCER HISTORY RUNS DEEP
Freshman Selah Simms was coached in high school by Nicole (Garbin) Toeaina, arguably the best player in UO program history. Toeaina, the 2006 Pac-10 player of the year, remains Oregon's career leader in goals (34), game-winning goals (22) and shots (257). Toeaina was inducted into the UO Hall of Fame in 2017. Freshman Addisen Boyer set the Oak Harbor High career record with 106 goals. The previous Oak Harbor scoring record, 68, was set by Chalise Baysa (1994-97), who went on to become a three-time all-Pac-10 second team star for the Ducks and score a then-career record 31 goals for Oregon from 1998-2001. Sophomore Carly Cormack played at the same high school (Punahou) in Hawaii as former Ducks True Dydasco (2017-22), Starr Johnson (1998-01) and Jamie Kawamura (1996).

DAUGHTER OF USA SOCCER ICON NOW A DUCK
Freshman Izzy Sawyers is the daughter of Julie Foudy, one of the most iconic players in American soccer history. Foudy won FIFA World Cup titles with Team USA in 1991 and 1999 and brought home Olympic gold for the American side in 1996 and 2000. She was a four-time All-American at Stanford, and is currently an announcer for ESPN and part of the ownership group of Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League. Sawyers won't be the first Duck player with a famous mother. Dylan Tharp, an all-Pac-10 defender from 2004-07, is the daughter of ESPN's Shelley Smith.