BIG EAST Play Continues As Pirates Host Marquette, Travel To Georgetown

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – After two road matches, the Seton Hall women's soccer team returns home for a 6 p.m. fixture against Marquette on Thursday before hitting the road again for a 1 p.m. clash at No. 18 Georgetown.

STREAM INFORMATION

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GAME PROMOTION

The Pirates will be celebrating Title IX and its importance to the women's soccer program by displaying quotes from head coach Josh Osit, sophomore Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.), senior Grace Gordon (Chester Springs, Pa.), Seton Hall alumnae Taylor Cutcliff and more along the fence at Owen T. Carroll Field. It will also be Most Valuable Professor Night as the Pirates' four seniors honor their favorite Seton Hall professors pregame.

NEWS & NOTES

The Pirates boast one of the top defensive units in the BIG EAST and the country as they rank 47th nationally and second in the conference in goals against average (.750) and 21st nationally and first in the league with Grace Gordon's .868 save percentage.
Gordon receives help from the Pirates' backline made up of sophomore Chiara Pucci (Munich, Germany), junior Alex Fuggle (London, England) and sophomore Rachel Gerrie (Littleton, Colo.)
Gordon ranks second in the BIG EAST with a 0.76 goals against average, ranks first with a .873 save percentage and first with 55 total saves.
Gordon's 14 saves at Xavier last week set a career high and ranks as the most by a BIG EAST goalkeeper this season
Natale Tavana is tied for sixth in the BIG EAST with three assists on the season and leads her team with 20 shots.

OSIT JOINS THE HALL

Head coach Josh Osit, a New Jersey native who has had success as a recruiter and tactician within Northeast Div. I soccer for a decade, enters his first season as the head coach at Seton Hall.
Osit, who spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach at Columbia University, becomes the fifth head coach in the 28-year history of Seton Hall women's soccer.
Between 2015 and 2017, the Lions were the only women's soccer program to finish top three in the Ivy league all three seasons.
Columbia became a top-50 RPI team for the first time in program history in 2019 and reached as high as No. 28 in the RPI in 2021, the highest ranking in program history.
Prior to his time at Columbia, Osit spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers, where he was a part of a Scarlet Knights program that received back-to-back NCAA Tournament at-large bids in 2012 and 2013 and won an NCAA Tournament first round match in 2012
Rutgers' combined record over Osit's two seasons was 26-12-6 (.659) and featured an appearance in the 2013 AAC Championship final.
On the club level, Osit has excelled with Players Development Academy (PDA) based in New Jersey where he helped produce over 20 players that have been called into U.S. Youth National Camps.