Promo-Packed Sunday for Rams

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The excitement of Ag Day around Colorado State Athletics continues into Sunday when the CSU soccer team hosts Idaho State for a noon kickoff at the CSU Soccer Field.

In addition to the Rams wearing their Ag kits, CSU will be celebrating Alumni Weekend and International Student Day. For the latter, CSU's Office of International Programs will be joining the Rams in their lineup walk-out with international students holding their country's respective flags. The Alumni Weekend consists of a football tailgate on Saturday and a halftime presentation on Sunday at the soccer game where 10 former Ram student-athletes will be recognized.

"There are a ton of events, and we are excited that it is all coming together for this one weekend," head coach Keeley Hagen said. "When we started looking at dates, we saw it is CSU's all-sports alumni weekend and we wanted to start coinciding our event to match. We also wanted to get involved with our international group on campus and get them excited about soccer, which will enhance our environment and atmosphere. Lastly though, our focus is on the field with our ladies improving in the skills standpoint, our system and having more shots on goal."

The matchup between the Rams and the Bengals will be the first-ever meeting. Both squads are looking for their first wins of the season with CSU at 0-2-2 and ISU at 0-5-1.

"It has been really good for us to be able to train lately," Hagen said about having only one game this week. "We have been able to focus more and get more repetitions at practice in everything. We talked to the team today about them believing that they are getting better little by little and not necessarily focusing on outcomes. I've told the team, it doesn't matter the team we are playing, it's 'we must be better every single game' whether it is a non-conference opponent or conference opponent."

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Promotions
- Ag Day, the school's annual celebration of Colorado State's rich agricultural tradition. The celebration began in 1981 to recognize Colorado State's roots as Colorado A&M when the sports teams were the Aggies. For soccer's support, the Rams will be wearing their Aggie kit of Pumpkin tops and White bottoms with Alfalfa trip and the Aggie "A".

- Colorado State's Office of International Programs will host International Students Day at the field. International students from various countries will be holding their respective countries' flags in formation during the lineup walk-out.

- Soccer's Alumni Weekend will feature 10 Rams in attendance and will be honored at halftime. Those Rams include Bailyn Furrow (2017-20), Jessica Stauffer (2013-15), Hunter Peifer (2017-18), Maddie Kessler (2016-19), Taylor Steinke (2017-21), Taylor Hodgson (2014-17), Jami Vaughn (2013-14), Caeley Lordemann (2017-19), Sarah Wontrobski (2013), and Catherine Batt [Ruder].

- Admission is free for all of the 2021 season

Last Time Out
- Last week, the Rams tied Northern Colorado 1-1 in Greeley with CSU's only goal of the season and then fell 0-4 to Kansas State at home. In the game against the Bears, CSU outshot UNC 22-to-12, but the shots on goal was 8-to-7, respectively. In the loss, CSU held the possession longer than the Wildcats, but were unable to make anything of it.

Lots of Free Soccer
- Overtime continues to be a theme early as three of the four completed regular season games needed extra time in addition to one of the exhibitions.

Lineup Shuffle
- Four games, four starting lineups. Seven Rams have started all four games, while the other four spots have changed at least once. Page 3 of the game notes has the breakdown of the starting lineups.

First Goal
- Senior Kristen Noonan scored the first goal for CSU in the 2021 season off a header at Northern Colorado. Fellow senior Baylee Bedard was credited with the assist, which was the first of her career and first points as well.

- The goal moved Noonan up to third all-time at CSU with seven goals and fifth in points with 15. More of milestones on page 3 of game notes.

"C" Badger
- After a team vote, captains were announced prior to game one and the results were all seniors; Sam Studt, Haylee Blach and Baylee Bedard.

- Studt has started 44 of her 47 career games. Blach has started all 11 career games at CSU. Bedard has started 24 of 33 games played since arriving in 2018.

Colorado State Notes
- Fifteen letterwinners return including 11 starters, however only six of those would have been considered starters after the last full season in 2019. Eleven newcomers make up the roster with 10 freshmen and one transfer.

- Armstrong represents the top point returner with her six from the spring and 18 in her career. Her five career goals are tied sixth all-time, while she already holds the career and individual season assist records - both at eight.

- Another key returner on offense is senior Kristen Noonan who has 12 career goals. She had five at Cal State Fullerton as a freshman.

Bengal Notes
- Idaho State was picked to finish last in the Big Sky Conference. In the spring season, ISU finished 0-8-1.

- The Bengals will play Wyoming on Friday before traveling down to Fort Collins.

Team Connections
- Kenady Leighton's Sheldon HS was knocked out in the second round of the 2019 OSAA Playoffs by ISU freshman Bella Anderson and Jesuit HS. Kenady also played with ISU freshman Gabby Warta on Thorns Academy club growing up.

- CSU's Izzy Wildermuth and Chatfield Senior HS went 2-0 against ISU freshman Kaylyn Buchanan of Lakewood HS when they squared off against each other.

- CSU's Ali Yoshida and 'Iolani School defeated Mililani (ISU's Calli Mullen and Meagan Tamashiro) in the 2019 HHSAA playoffs

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