Women’s Soccer to Open 2024 Season

RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced on Thursday that the women’s soccer team will open their 2024 schedule on Aug. 15 against Texas Southern University at 6:30 p.m. at the UTRGV Soccer and Track & Field Complex.

The match with Texas Southern will be the first of eight non-conference matches that when combined with the Southland Conference (SLC) schedule, which was announced last month, will give the Vaqueros an 18-match slate for 2024.

“We are really excited. It’s the most exciting time of the year,” UTRGV head coach Mark Foster said. “Especially, when teams are releasing schedules, it becomes a little more real. The schedule we put together is all about preparation for the Southland Conference. These are games that are winnable but also losable. They are games that are going to push us and challenge us but hopefully they are games that we will be able to see what we are like on the defensive side of the ball and see what we have on the attacking side of the ball. That’s the goal to use these games to get physically ready and build up our match fitness for conference play.”

Prior to the start of the regular season, the Vaqueros will play an exhibition match against the University of Houston on Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. at the UTRGV Soccer and Track & Field Complex.

Admission to the exhibition match and to all home soccer matches this season are complimentary.

Following the season opener against Texas Southern, the Vaqueros hit the road for a pair of matches as they visit Tarleton State on Aug. 20 and Rice on Aug. 25.

The Vaqueros return home for the start of a four-match homestand starting on Aug. 29 when they host Southern University and then welcome in Howard Payne University on Sept. 6, the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff on Sept. 8, and Prairie View A&M on Sept. 12.

UTRGV then closes out the non-conference portion of their schedule on the road when they visit Louisiana Lafayette on Sept. 15 prior to the start of SLC play on Sept. 22 against Texas A&M-Commerce.