The Mountaineers — the defending Sun Belt Regular Season and Tournament champions — will play 17 regular season matches starting in August, including 10 at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
Athletics
Graduate student Sarah Tait with the track and field team earned her second career First Team All-American honor at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday (June 14) in Eugene, Oregon.
Junior Griffin Lake with the rifle team earned two additional medals at the USA Shooting Rifle National Championship in Anniston, Alabama.
Each school has a home-and-home with three other Big 12 opponents, and faces the other 12 opponents once, with six at home and six on the road for an 18-game conference schedule during the 2025-26 season.
Teams will play three Big 12 opponents twice, then play the other 12 conference opponents one time, for a total of 18 conference games during the 2025-26 season.
Griffin Kirn, who made 18 appearances on the mound for the Mountaineers with 17 starts going 5-3 with a 3.36 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 99.0 innings pitched, and becoming just the 15th Mountaineer to record 100 strikeouts in a season, has been named a Third Team All-American by the NCBWA.