Upcoming Event: Women's Soccer at Pitt on September 27, 2026 at 1 p.m.
Women's Soccer
at Pitt
Sunday, September 27
Pittsburgh, PA
1 p.m.
Duke University
at
Pitt
Photo by: Duke Athletics
Duke Hits the Road for Pittsburgh Sunday at 12 p.m.
9/26/2026 10:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
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Match 10
#4 (Duke (6-1-2, 1-1-1 ACC) at Pittsburgh (6-4-1, 0-3-0 ACC)
Sunday, Sept. 27 – 1 PM (ET) – ACCNX
Pittsburgh, Pa. (Ambrose Urbanic Field)
ACCNX Talent: Ethan Lemier (PBP), Jayna Whalen (Color)
NEED TO KNOW
STORYLINES/OTHER BLUE DEVIL NOTES
THE SERIES WITH PITTSBURGH
SCOUTING PITTSBURGH
LAST YEAR AGAINST PITT
ON THE ROAD
TRAVERS NETS IMPRESSIVE GOAL
SCORING AGAINST THE ACC
MINESTRELLA'S QUICK START
MOST GOALS THROUGH NINE GAMES
1. Mia Minestrella, 2026 10
Casey McCluskey, 2004 10
3. Five tied with eight
AT THE TOP OF THE ACC
MCLANAHAN NETS FIRST GOAL
MINESTRELLA NETS MORE HISTORY
Match 10
#4 (Duke (6-1-2, 1-1-1 ACC) at Pittsburgh (6-4-1, 0-3-0 ACC)
Sunday, Sept. 27 – 1 PM (ET) – ACCNX
Pittsburgh, Pa. (Ambrose Urbanic Field)
ACCNX Talent: Ethan Lemier (PBP), Jayna Whalen (Color)
NEED TO KNOW
- The fourth-ranked Duke women's soccer team will hit the road this weekend as the Blue Devils travel to Pittsburgh Sunday, Sept. 27, for a 1 p.m., match at Ambrose Urbanic Field.
- The match will air live on the ACCNX with Ethan Lemier (PXP) and Jayna Whalen (Color) calling the action.
- The Blue Devils will travel out of the state of North Carolina for the first time in a month, when Duke played at Old Dominion Aug. 27.
- The two-game week with Notre Dame and Pittsburgh will be the final two-match week of the regular season for Duke in 2026.
- Seniors Cameron Roller and Mia Oliaro were named captains for 2026.
- Head coach Kieran Hall is in his second year as head coach of the Blue Devils, after leading Duke to the NCAA College Cup in his first season in 2025 with a 17-5-1 record.
- The No. 3 preseason ranking for Duke marks the fourth time in the last five seasons the Blue Devils have been a preseason top-five team and the 10th time in school history.
STORYLINES/OTHER BLUE DEVIL NOTES
- Over the last 10 true road matches, Mia Minestrella has scored in nine of them. The lone game in which she has not scored was at UCLA earlier this season. She scored in all six true road games in 2025. Over the last three years, Minestrella has scored in 11-of-17 true road matches.
- Duke allowed only 28 shots over its first six matches, but has allowed 43 over its last three contests.
- After playing 419:02 minutes over her first three years at Duke, senior Sam Bodensteiner has played in 556:24 minutes in 2026.
- Duke currently features nine different players who have scored at least one goal this season.
- Mia Minestrella became the first Blue Devil to notch three straight seasons with 10 or more goals. She has scored 39 goals over her last 49 matches. During that span, Minestrella has recorded 13 assists and 91 points.
- The Blue Devils have scored 14 goals over the last four matches.
- In 11 matches against ranked opponents in 2025, Mia Minestrella totaled eight goals and two assists. Over the last two years, she has notched 12 goals and seven assists against 26 ranked opponents.
- Cameron Roller has started 62 matches in a row as a Blue Devil.
- Duke featured four players on the MAC Hermann Trophy Preseason Watch list that was released Wednesday -- Sam Courtwright, Katie Shea Collins, Mia Minestrella and Cameron Roller.
- Last year, Kieran Hall became just the third Division I women's soccer coach in NCAA history to take a team to the NCAA College Cup in his first year as a head coach -- Damon Nahas of UNC in 2024 and Marguerie Bates of UCLA in 2022.
- Over the last two years, Duke has sent eight alumnae to the NWSL -- Hannah Bebar (Bay FC), Leah Freeman (San Diego Wave FC), Maggie Graham (Houston Dash), Ella Hase (Racing Louisville FC), Mary Long (Kansas City Current), Carina Lageyre (Angel City FC), Kat Rader (Houston Dash) and Devin Lynch (Denver Summit).
THE SERIES WITH PITTSBURGH
- Duke and Pittsburgh will meet for the 10th time in program history with the Blue Devils leading the series, 8-1.
- The Blue Devils are 2-1 in matches played in Pittsburgh.
- Duke won the last meeting, 5-0, in Durham on Oct. 2, 2025. The Blue Devils' only loss in the series came in their most recent trip to Pittsburgh, a 2-1 setback on Oct. 5, 2023.
- Duke has outscored Pittsburgh, 28-6, over the nine previous meetings.
SCOUTING PITTSBURGH
- Pittsburgh enters the match with a 6-4-1 overall and 0-3-0 mark in the ACC. The Panthers have lost each of their last three matches by an 8-4 combined score.
- In home matches so far in 2026, Pittsburgh is 3-2-0.
- So far on the season, the Panthers have been paced by Adi Bianchin (5 goals, 2 assists) and Sofia Doheny (3 goals, zero assists).
LAST YEAR AGAINST PITT
- The Blue Devils totaled a 5-0 victory over Pitt a season ago in Durham with five different Duke players scoring.
- Devin Lynch, Mia Oliaro, Kat Rader, Lauren Martinho and Mia Minestrella collected goals.
- The current team has only faced the Panthers twice with Duke falling, 2-1, in 2023 when the current senior class was freshmen.
ON THE ROAD
- Duke heads on the road for the fifth time this season. The Blue Devils feature a 2-1-1 mark on the year.
- Mia Minestrella has scored three goals in road matches, tallying goals against Southern California, Old Dominion and North Carolina.
- Five different Blue Devils have scored on the road this season -- Minestrella, Katie Shea Collins (2), Avery Oder, Sam Courtwright and Rylee McLanahan.
TRAVERS NETS IMPRESSIVE GOAL
- Duke sophomore defender Jocelyn Travers netted her first goal of the season and second career tally in the second half against Notre Dame to tie the match, 1-1. She struck an impressive left-footed attempt from the top of the box.
SCORING AGAINST THE ACC
- Duke senior Mia Minestrella has scored a goal against 13 different ACC teams (regular season and postseason). The only teams she has not scored a goal against are – Syracuse (only played once), Florida State (only played once) and Wake Forest (only played twice)
- In 2026, Minestrella has scored in two of Duke's three ACC regular-season games and had two goals in those matches
- In 2025, Minestrella scored in seven of her 10 ACC regular-season games and had a total of eight goals in those matches
- In 2024 and 2025, Minestrella played 20 ACC regular-season games and scored in 12 of those for a total of 13 goals.
- In 2024, 2025 and 2026, Minestrella has played 23 ACC regular-season games and has scored in 14 of those for a total of 15 goals.
MINESTRELLA'S QUICK START
- Duke senior Mia Minestrella has scored 10 goals over the first nine contests, which is tied for the most in Duke history.
MOST GOALS THROUGH NINE GAMES
1. Mia Minestrella, 2026 10
Casey McCluskey, 2004 10
3. Five tied with eight
AT THE TOP OF THE ACC
- Duke currently features Mia Minestrella at the top of the ACC in points per game (2.44) and goals per game (1.11). Katie Shea Collins ranks eighth in points per game (1.78) and eighth in goals per game (0.67).
- Sam Courtwright ranks tied for second in the league with a 0.67 assists-per-game average.
- Duke ranks second in the ACC in goals per game (3.33), assists per game (3.67) and points per game (10.33).
- In the NCAA rankings, the Blue Devils are seventh in assists and sixth in points-per-game, while being ninth in total goals (30).
- Minestrella ranks third in the nation with a 1.11 goals per game average and is fifth with a 2.44 points-per-game mark.
MCLANAHAN NETS FIRST GOAL
- A highly regarded scorer coming out of high school, freshman Rylee McLanahan registered her first collegiate goal on the road at seventh-ranked North Carolina last week.
- She tallied the goal at the 41:06 mark of the first half to even the score, 1-1.
- McLanahan scored 107 goals in 45 matches in high school.
MINESTRELLA NETS MORE HISTORY
- Duke senior Mia Minestrella currently owns 10 goals so far in 2026 to become the first Duke student-athlete to total three straight seasons with 10 or more goals.
- Three different Blue Devils notched back-to-back seasons with 10+ goals, but none have done it three times -- Kelly Walbert (1994 & 1995), Kayla McCoy (2017 & 2018) and Michelle Cooper (2021 & 2022).
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