Soccer Hosts The Citadel, Mercer this Weekend

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team returns home to host a five-game Southern Conference home slate beginning Friday night with The Citadel and Mercer Sunday.

GAMEDAY
Friday, September 30 | 7:00 p.m. | Finley Stadium

GAMEDAY MEDIA
Live stats will be available at GoMocs.com on the women's soccer schedule page. Video streaming will not be available for this game.

CHATTANOOGA vs. THE CITADEL
The Mocs lead the series 9-5-1 including a rescheduled neutral-site match last season due to flooding in Charleston. UTC went unbeaten with seven wins in the first eight meetings. The Bulldogs took the next three before the Mocs recorded a win in 2012 on the road. The Citadel grabbed the next two victories before UTC won last season.

CHATTANOOGA (3-7-1, 1-1 SoCon) | Head Coach Gavin McKinney, second season
The Mocs posted a 2-1 win on the road against Wofford in their last outing to improve to 3-7-1 overall and 1-1 in SoCon play. Chattanooga, with 17 goals, is averaging 1.55 per game and has 72 shots on goal in 135 shot attempts (.533) and average 12.3 shots per game.

Peyton McCollum leads the team in scoring with 11 points, goals scored with four and a team-best three assists. Ellie Myrick matches her for goals scored with four and has two assists for 10 points. Junior McKenzie Gregg has a team-high tying three assists with one goal for five points and is third on the team in scoring. Jordan Mueller scored the Mocs' first goal against the Terriers for her second of the year and freshman keeper Melia Correa earned her first victory in the win. She has a .740 saves percentage and a 1.58 goals against average.

THE CITADEL (3-6, 0-2 SoCon) | Head Coach Ciaran Traquair, first season
The Bulldogs are 3-6 overall and 0-2 in league play with losses to ETSU and Western Carolina at home last weekend in the league opener. The Citadel has just eight goals on the year with three tallying two each. Mady Riegel has a team-best five points on two goals and one assist while Samara Nche and Katherine Arroyo have two apiece.

Logan Leask and Abby Koger have shared time in goal. Leask has clocked 640:27 in eight matches with a 1.41 goals against average and a .808 saves percentage. She has all three wins for the Bulldogs, all by shutout, and four losses.

GAMEDAY
Sunday, October 2 | 2:00 p.m. | Finley Stadium

GAMEDAY MEDIA
Live stats and video streaming will be available at GoMocs.com on the women's soccer schedule page.

CHATTANOOGA vs. MERCER
This will be the sixth meeting between the Mocs and the Bears. UTC won three matches by shutout in the early 2000s before Mercer joined the Southern Conference. In the last two, the Bears came away with both SoCon victories.

SCOUTING MERCER (3-6-1, 1-1 SoCon) | Head Coach Tony Economopoulos, fifth season
The Bears defeated ETSU in their last game to even out its SoCon record at 1-1 and are 3-6-1 overall. Mercer has 16 goals on the year for a 1.6 goals per game average while allowing 17 by its opponents. The Bears average 9.2 shots per game with 92 and have a .457 shot on goal percentage with 42 of its 92 shots hitting their mark.

Maddie Clark has a team-high 15 points on seven goals and one assist and had a hat trick in the Bears' win over ETSU. Emma Tokuyama has three goals on just nine shots while Logan Culver and Abbey Reddig have two goals apiece. Caroline Smith leads the team with three assists and Jamilah Tejan has a pair. Keepers Cristina Mursuli and Leah Cochran have shared time in the net with Mursuli making eight starts and playing in all 10 games. She has given up 15 goals for a 1.94 GAA and has 38 saves on 128 shots faced for a .717 saves percentage.

Players Mentioned

Melia Correa

McKenzie Gregg

Peyton McCollum

Jordan Mueller

Ellie Myrick

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus Samford on Oct 15, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer at Furman on Oct 18, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus UNC Greensboro on Oct 23, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus East Tennessee on Oct 29, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer at Mercer on Nov 1, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus Southern Conference First Round on Nov 5, 2026

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus Southern Conference Quarterfinal on Nov 8, 2026

Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer versus Southern Conference Semifinal on Nov 13, 2026

Results

Completed Event: Women's Soccer at Wofford on October 9, 2026 , Win , 2, to, 1

Completed Event: Women's Soccer versus Western Carolina on October 4, 2026 , Win , 5, to, 0

Completed Event: Women's Soccer at VMI on October 1, 2026 , Win , 2, to, 0

Completed Event: Women's Soccer versus The Citadel on September 20, 2026 , Win , 3, to, 0

Completed Event: Women's Soccer at Tennessee Tech on September 17, 2026 , Tie , 1, to, 1

Completed Event: Women's Soccer at North Alabama on September 10, 2026 , Tie , 1, to, 1

Completed Event: Women's Soccer at Morehead State on September 6, 2026 , Win , 2, to, 1

Completed Event: Women's Soccer versus Eastern Kentucky on August 30, 2026 , Win , 2, to, 1