DAYTON – The University of Dayton women's soccer team (0-0-0, 0-0-0 A-10) opens up the 2018 season at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott JMU Invitational. The Flyers take on the host Dukes on Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at Sentara Park in Harrisonburg, Va. UD will play William and Mary on Sunday, Aug. 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Sentara Park, which features a natural grass surface and opened in 2012. 

THE SERIES
• Dayton is 0-2-0 all-time vs. James Madison. The last time these two teams met was Oct. 22, 1994 when the Dukes won 3-1. The Flyers also hosted James Madison on Sept. 12, 1993 and fell 3-2. 
• The Flyers have faced William & Mary just once in their history. The result was a 1-1 double overtime tie on Sept. 9, 2005 at a neutral site at the University of Virginia Nike Soccer Classic.

FLYER QUICK HITS
•    Dayton finished the 2017 season with a 9-9-2 overall record and 4-4-2 Atlantic 10 Conference record.
•    Junior Micayla Livingston is UD's top returning scorer after notching seven goals and five assists last year.
•    Senior defender Nadia Pestell led the Flyers with six assists last season.
•    Senior goalkeeper Kaelyn Johns has started 61 matches in her career and has 261 career saves. Her 15 career shutouts are fourth all-time at UD, including a career-high seven shutouts last season.
• UD has 11 freshmen on its roster this season. 
• Head coach Eric Golz is in his second season at the helm of the Flyers. He previously served as an assistant at UD in 2011. 

HOME SWEET HOME
•    Dayton has 10 home matches on its home Baujan Field this season. 
•    Baujan Field will be the site of the 2018 Atlantic 10 Women's Soccer Championship semifinals on Nov. 2 and the final on Nov. 4. 

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SCOUTING JAMES MADISON
• JMU finished 9-10-0 overall and 4-5-0 in the CAA in 2017.
• Entering its first season under head coach Joshua Walters, Sr., the James Madison women's soccer team was picked to finish third in the 2018 Colonial Athletic Association Preseason Poll.
•  Junior forward Haley Crawford was named to the Preseason All-CAA Team. She had seven goals and seven assists in 2017, leading JMU in both.
• Redshirt junior Olivia Milleraw action in 15 matches in goal for JMU last year. She had a 1.47 GAA and made 40 saves.  

SCOUTING WILLIAM & MARY
• The Tribe went 8-10-2 overall and 3-4-2 in the CAA last season. 
• William & Mary was picked to finish fifth in the 2018 Colonial Athletic Association preseason poll.
• Redshirt junior forward Sarah Segan was selected to the 2018 Preseason All-CAA team. Last season, Segan led the Tribe with eight goals, two assists, and 20 points.
• Former three-time All-American Julie Shackford '88 begins her first season as head coach of the Tribe. A 25-year coaching veteran and former national coach of the year, Shackford owns a 245-130-33 record (.641).

FLYERS PICKED 7TH IN A-10 POLL
• The Dayton women's soccer team was selected  to finish seventh in the 2018 Atlantic 10 standings in a vote by the league's 14 head coaches. 

DAYTON'S A-10 BACKGROUND 
• Dayton has won the A-10 Tournament Championship more than any other team in the conference: 10 times (1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016). 
• UD has also won or shared 11 Atlantic 10 Regular Season titles (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013). The next closest is Massachusetts with five. 
• Dayton has appeared in 21 A-10 tournaments, earning a berth every year the Flyers have been a member of the conference. 

BELIEVIN' IN BAUJAN 
• The Flyers are 224-66-22 all-time in games played n their home field, Baujan Field. In the last six years, Dayton is 68-14-7 at home, an astounding .803 winning percentage at Baujan. 

CINCINNATI CONNECTIONS
•  10 Flyers are from the Cincinnati area: senior Sara Robertson, juniors Hanna Merritt, Caroline Mink, Madeleine Morrissey, Alex Powell, sophomores Olivia Brown and Megan Rack, and freshmen Sam Hausser, Lexy Kidd, and Mimi Stines.

#UDWSOC - NCAA REGULARS 
• The Flyers have made 10 NCAA Tournament appearances in program history: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016. UD advanced to the second round in both 2009 and 2010 and to the Sweet Sixteen in 2001. The Flyers lost 3-2 to No. 24 Ohio State in the NCAA First Round in Columbus in 2016.

FANTASTIC FRESHMEN 
• Dayton's freshmen have a history of making an impact. 
• Until last season, the Flyers have had at least one representative on the A-10 All-Rookie team every year since it started in 2000.
• Micayla Livingston and Caroline Mink were both named to the 2016 A-10 All-Rookie Team. 
• Beth Kamphaus was named to the All-Rookie team in 2015 after coming on strong in conference play.
• Kaelyn Johns started every match in goal for the Flyers in 2015. 
• Nadia Pestell started 19 matches for the Flyers on defense and logged 1,474 minutes in 2015. She played for the U-17 Canadian National Team and won a silver medal at the CONCACAF Women's U17 Championships in Jamaica.