The Washington State soccer team will host No. 13 Santa Clara Thursday, Aug. 25, at Lower Soccer Field at 7 p.m. The match will be televised by the Pac-12 Network. The Cougars enter the contest with an 0-1-0 record while the Broncos are 2-0-0 through the field weekend of the season.

WASHINGTON STATE: LAST TIME OUT
Washington State dropped a 2-01, double-overtiem contest against No. 16 BYU. WSU scored first in the 29th minute, and had the run of play until the 77th minute when BYU drew the equalizer, off a deflected shot. BYU then sealed the game midway through the second overtime with a shot from inside the box. 

WSU SETS ATTANDANCE RECORD AGAINST BYU
During last Friday's season-opener against No. 16 BYU, WSU drew a Lower Soccer Field record 2,623 fans for the match, eclipsing the previous mark of 2,251 set last season against Arizona. 

WASHINGTON STATE-SANTA CLARA: THE SERIES
Washington State is 0-7-1 all-time against Santa Clara. In the last meeting No. 23 Santa Clara scored three second-half goals to come away with a 3-0 victory in Santa Clara, Calif.  The last meeting in Pullman, 1997, Santa Clara posted a 3-0 win. The Broncos enter the match with a NO. 13 national ranking.

NEXT UP
After hosting No. 13 Santa Clara Thursday, WSU travels to Spokane to face Gonzaga in a 6 p.m. matchup Sunday evening. The Bulldogs are off to 1-1 after splitting matches last weekend against Nevada (W) and Oregon (L). The Cougars are 23-0-1 all-time against Gonzaga, including a 3-0 victory in the last meeting, Sept. 12, 2015 in Pullman. 

WASHINGTON STATE HEAD COACH TODD SHULENBERGER
Cougar Head Coach Todd Shulenberger is in his second year at Washington State…In 2015 Shulenberger became the seventh head coach in program history after spending the previous two seasons as the associate head coach at Texas Tech…last season the Cougars reached the NCAA Championship for the fifth-straight season and finished with a 14-6 record.

COUGARS SEEK RETURN TO POSTSEASON
Washington State has made five-straight NCAA Championship appearances, a first for the program…the Cougars have made seven trips to the NCAA postseason in the last eight years...the Cougars haveadvanced to the second round twice in that span…last year, Washington State fell to Northwestern in the first round in double overtime to finish 14-6.

COUGARS READY FOR 2016 SEASON
Washington State returns 17 student-athletes, including 15 letterwinners and eight starters from its 2015 squad...the Cougars return senior Kaitlyn Johnson, who led the 2015 team with seven goals and six assists...the Cougars also welcome back redshirt-sophomore goalkeeper Ella Dederick, who tallied 99 saves, the most by a WSU 'keeper since 2008.