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Iowa Soccer Releases 2015 Schedule
The
University of Iowa women’s soccer team will face five NCAA Tournament
teams as part of its 2015 schedule, UI head coach Dave DiIanni
announced Wednesday. Twelve of the Hawkeyes’ 19 regular season contests
will be played at the Iowa Soccer Complex.
Iowa
opens the 2015 slate with an exhibition contest at Illinois State -- a
program that advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament a
season ago -- on Aug. 14 before kicking off the regular season with
four straight home contests.
The Hawkeyes will
welcome Pacific (Aug. 21), Nebraska Omaha (Aug. 23), Summit League
champion and NCAA qualifier South Dakota State (Aug. 28), and Northern
Iowa (Sept. 1) to Iowa City to start the year. Iowa is 14-1-0
all-time against the four schools.
Following a
two-game road trip, where Iowa will face Utah State and Montana on
Sept. 4 and Sept. 6 in Missoula, Montana, the Hawkeyes return home for
a pair of games. Iowa faces Iowa State on Sept. 11 in an Iowa
Corn Cy-Hawk Series matchup before welcoming Illinois Chicago to town
Sept. 13 for its final nonconference game.
The
Hawkeyes open Big Ten play on the road, squaring off against Michigan
State and Michigan on Sept. 18 and Sept. 20. It is Iowa’s second
straight trip to the Great Lake State.
Iowa closes
out September by welcoming Ohio State (Sept. 25) and Penn State (Sept.
27) to Iowa City for a pair of home contests. The Nittany Lions
won the Big Ten regular season title and advanced to the Elite Eight
last season.
Following an Oct. 3 road date at
Indiana, the Hawkeyes play four of their final six games in Iowa City,
beginning with a Thursday night matchup against NCAA qualifier
Wisconsin on Oct. 8. Iowa then welcomes Minnesota to town on Oct.
11 in a game that will be televised live on BTN.
The
Hawkeyes’ final regular season road trip begins with an Oct. 15 game at
Illinois and Iowa will face Northwestern at Toyota Park -- the home of
Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire -- on Oct. 18 in Bridgeview,
Illinois.
Iowa’s final homestand begins with an
Oct. 23 matchup against Nebraska before the Hawkeyes close out the
regular season by hosting 2014 NCAA Tournament qualifier Rutgers on
Oct. 28.
The 2015 Big Ten Tournament
quarterfinals will be played at the campus sites of the top four seeds
on Nov. 1 with the semifinals and final the following weekend at the
home site of the highest remaining seed.
The
Hawkeyes finished 14-7-1 in DiIanni’s first year as head coach and
advanced to the title game of the 2014 Big Ten Tournament. Iowa
returns five starters and 18 letterwinners in 2015.
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