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To be clear, Patrick was notified today that he would start the game vs France. Sources are Patrick Schulte and SLU Soccer coaches

SLU alum Patrick Schulte is expected to start at goalkeeper today for the United States vs France at the Olympics. 2pm Central. USA Network and Peacock.

They did release it on social media. In addition to the already mentioned SLU Missouri State, Miami FL, and Duke, they will also play Memphis, Illinois, SEMO non-conference. The SEC is playing one less non-conference game this season, with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas to the conference: https://x.com/mizzousoccer/status/1812929766565290405?s=46&t=TsCCkuE48YmnkWfoKqc_Ng

Welcome Elise Le: https://slubillikens.com/news/2024/7/15/womens-soccer-billiken-great-brionna-halverson-named-assistant-coach.aspx

SLU non-conference schedule is currently at 14. (300 schedules have been released thus far) Welcome Bri Halverson, who was most recently Girls Director at St. Louis Stars, as well as an assistant coach at Summit High School. (Missouri Class 3 State Finalist this season)

That’s a partial schedule. It’s missing 6 games. Mizzou will be releasing their full schedule soon.

Toughest non-conference schedules based on 2023 stats: Penn State BYU SLU Xavier Creighton Penn State plays 8 RPI Top 25 teams (from 2023) on this year's schedule. They play 16 RPI top 100 teams. BYU plays 6 RPI top 25 teams. Many of their other opponents are RPI top 100 as well. Two seasons ago SLU hosted 2 National top 10 teams, Arkansas and Notre Dame. Both finished in the Elite 8. Mizzou hasn’t released its schedule yet but it will include a trip to Duke and Miami FL as well as 9 additional top 100 RPI SEC opponents. After an early addition, SLU reached out to 8 portal players (mostly 1 year grad transfers) at 3 positions in the late Spring period. 1 reached advanced discussions but that player chose a different school. New staff announcements will be arriving shortly.

No surprises here. Ward was a late addition. The rest were previously mentioned. Henry, Lara, Lopes, Maher, all played the SLU Spring season. Lara had a minor injury. Henry missed some time with the Finland Youth National team. Delkus, Sellers, Stanton, are 3 of the 6 future Billikens playing U20 UPSL. (The others are 2025 commits)They made the national finals last year. And they are currently in the National Round of 32 this weekend. (They play Tennessee, and then play one of the Florida teams if they win) There are over 400 teams. A few have played with City 2.

New 6 year Big East Media Rights Deal through 2032, was announced by the league. It will be with Fox, NBC, TNT. Sportico: “Estimates of the value of the new agreements see the conference nearly doubling its annual rights payments at a range of $75 million to $80 million per year.” https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2024/big-east-media-rights-deal-fox-sports-nbc-tnt-1234785885/

7 of the 8 non-conference games are vs last year’s RPI top 50. 5 of them were in the RPI Top 25. Expectations are high.

Yep. Big opportunities. Most of the schedule has been set a while. Originally, the Aug 29th game was supposed to be at Iowa State. SEC, Big 12, Big 10, Big East, all represented. Yes the SIUE game is a City Park Sunday game. (St. Louis City does not play that day. They play in Boston the day before. City 2 plays in Denver that day. And, it isn’t a holiday weekend) Originally the Aug 29th game was supposed to be at Iowa State.

Here you go: https://x.com/sluwsoccer/status/1798732454984892498?s=46&t=TsCCkuE48YmnkWfoKqc_Ng

It will be sooner than that. It varies each year. The schedules are good. There will be a PNW trip.

SLU’’s 2025 Volleyball commit this week is from Tamia Maddox, Outside Hitter from Lincoln-Way East High School and Adversity Volleyball Club. 2023 4A Sectional Finalist. All Area 2nd team and Special Mention All State. 331 kills. 230 digs. 22 blocks. 20 aces. All Conference. All Tourney Team at WWS. Her brother Dante recently transferred to Xavier to play basketball. (Toledo/CSUF) And her dad is the Boys Basketball Coach at Bloom High School on Chicago’s South Side.

Kenzie committed to Iowa State today: https://x.com/kenzie_hare12/status/1782434637769245043?s=46&t=TsCCkuE48YmnkWfoKqc_Ng