PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne women's soccer team (4-8-2, 2-5-1 A-10) will close out the home portion of its schedule on Thursday, Oct. 21 when it welcomes George Washington (2-12-2, 2-6-0 A-10) to Rooney Field on Senior Night.
 
Senior Night festivities will commence about 15 minutes prior to the 7 p.m. kickoff. The match itself will broadcast on ESPN+.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN

• All-Time Series: George Washington leads, 10-8-3
• First Meeting: Oct. 1, 1995 at Duquesne – GW won, 2-0
• Last Meeting: Oct. 4, 2018 at Duquesne – GW won, 1-0 I Recap | Box Score
• Streak: George Washington, +1

QUICK HITS

• Duquesne will honor and recognize its 13 final-year student athletes prior to kickoff Thursday night.
• The Dukes are on the outside looking in at 11^th place in the A-10 standings. George Washington is slotted right behind DU in 12^th place.
• The top-eight teams qualify for the Atlantic 10 Championship.
• La Salle and George Mason are currently tied for 8^th place at 3-4-1 in the A-10 standings. Due to tiebreaker scenarios, a loss versus GW would mathematically eliminate the Dukes from postseason contention.
• The Dukes are 4-2-1 when playing on Rooney Field this season.
• Duquesne's 2-1 loss to La Salle last Thursday night was the first time that the Dukes lost in regulation time at home. Massachusetts defeated DU at Rooney Field in overtime.
• Since 2015, the Dukes have boasted a 42-17-9 record at Rooney Field, while outscoring the opposition by a mark of 119-60 in those matches.
• DU ranks sixth in the A-10 with 1.21 goals per game on offense. Duquesne is averaging 2.14 goals per game at Rooney Field this season.
• Both GW and Duquesne have identical 3-1 wins over Richmond this season. The Spiders are fifth in the A-10 standings at 5-3.
• The Dukes are coming off of a 2-1 loss at Rhode Island Sunday.
• Hannah Nguyen scored in the opening minutes of the match for her third goal of the season in the loss.
• Nguyen is tied for second on the team with three goals and ranks second with 10 points.
• She also leads the team and is tied for seventh in the A-10 with four assists this season.
• Nguyen is one of just four players to start all 14 games for the Dukes this season and ranks second on the team with 1,269 minutes played.
• Ashley Rodriguez converted her second penalty-kick goal of the season in the team's 2-1 loss to La Salle last Thursday.
• She is fifth on the team with two goals and is another player who has started all 13 games. Rodriguez leads the team 1,303 minutes played this season.
• Emma Bundy scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season and added an assist on the game-winning goal in the team's victory over Saint Louis on Sept. 23.
• She is tied for fourth in the A-10 with five goals and leads the A-10 with 1.50 points per game (12 total). Bundy has not appeared in any of the past six games.
• Jaimi Araujo and Karley Steinher are tied for second on the team with three goals. Both players have missed the past four games.
• The Dukes rank fourth in the A-10 with 6.14 shots on-goal per game and second in the league with a shot accuracy of 52.4 percent.
• The Dukes were picked to finish 10th in the annual Atlantic 10 women's soccer preseason poll announced in August.

DUQUESNE HEAD COACH AL ALVINE (Robert Morris '92)

• Al Alvine is in his 10^th season as the head coach of the Dukes in 2021.
• The Dukes' all-time winningest coach boasts a record of 70-82-22 on the Bluff and 35-46-10 in Atlantic 10 play. His career mark stands at 199-145-42.
• Alvine inherited a three-win team prior to the 2012 season and quadrupled that total in four years.
• He set a program record with 12 victories in 2015 – which included the program's first-ever A-10 Championship and NCAA Tournament bid.
• His teams have totaled 11 or more wins three times during his tenure.
• Alvine has coached four First-Team and three Second-Team All-Atlantic 10 picks, including 2017 A-10 Midfielder of the Year Linnea Faccenda.
• He was named the fifth head coach in Duquesne women's soccer history on December 29, 2011.
• Alvine came to the Bluff after spending five seasons as head coach at California University of Pennsylvania, where he went 73-28-11 – including a 38-2-6 mark over his final two seasons with the Vulcans. 

SCOUTING THE COLONIALS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• George Washington enters the match 2-12-2 overall, with a 2-6-0 mark in A-10 play.
• GW is 0-9-1 in road matches this season, which includes eight-straight losses when traveling.
• The Colonials are coming off of a 2-0 win over Saint Joseph's that snapped a four-match skid.
• Alicia Window scored early in the second half to help propel GW to the victory,
• It was her third goal in two games. She scored twice in the opening three minutes in the Colonials' 4-2 loss to Dayton earlier in the week.
• Window was named the A-10 Rookie of the Week for her efforts.
• She leads the Colonials with four goals and is tied for the team lead with eight points.
• Kelly Amador assisted on both goals in the team's win over Saint Joseph's.
• She leads the team with four assists and is tied for the team lead with eight points.
• The Colonials were picked to finish fourth and received a first-place vote in the A-10 Preseason Poll that was released ahead of the 2021 season.

GEORGE WASHINGTON HEAD COACH MICHELLE DEMKO (Maryland, '96)

• Michelle Demko is in her fourth season as the Colonials' Head Coach.
• She has posted an overall record of 32-27-8 while leading GW.
• Demko led the Colonials to a 14-3-4 record and a 7-1-2 mark in A-10 play in 2019.
• GW secured a spot in the Atlantic 10 Championship Final for the first time since 1997 during that run.
• Prior to GW, Demko spent eight seasons as the head coach of UNC Asheville.
• She also had assistant coach stints at Nebraska and North Carolina State.