Wolverines to Travel to No. 11 Notre Dame, Host Western Michigan

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The University of Michigan women's soccer team (2-1-2) travels to South Bend, Ind., to take on No. 11-ranked Notre Dame on Thursday (Sept. 7) at 7 p.m. at Alumni Stadium. On Sunday (Sept. 10), the Wolverines will wrap up the week with a contest against Western Michigan at 1 p.m. inside U-M Soccer Stadium. Thursday's match will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra, and Sunday's game will be streamed live on B1G+.

Notes

• Senior goalkeeper Stephanie Sparkowski has three clean sheets on the season, with all three coming over the last trio of matches. On the season, she boasts 22 stops against three goals allowed (.880 save percentage) and a goals-against average of 0.60. The three shutouts are tied for second most in the country and her 4.40 saves/game leads the Big Ten.

• The last time the Wolverines had three consecutive clean sheets was during the 2016 season. U-M blanked Ole Miss 2-0 on Sept. 2, UC Riverside 4-0 on Sept. 9 and Iowa 1-0 on Sept. 16 in Iowa City.

• Senior Sammi Woods is the Wolverines' active career-goal leader after scoring her 18th in U-M's 1-0 win over Cincinnati (Sept. 3). She is tied for the team lead in the goal column this season with freshman Gabrielle Prych.

• Head coach Jennifer Klein has rotated the squad in the early season, with 14 different student-athletes starting matches. Junior center back Avery Peters leads the team in minutes played for field players with 438. Most recently, sophomore Sierra Sargent made her Wolverine debut, taking part in 21 minutes of match action against Cincinnati.

• Michigan has started the season with four road matches in its first six contests, the second most in program history over the initial span of a season. The last time U-M had as many true road matches was 1998.

• Notre Dame leads 13-4-1 in the all-time series with Michigan, but the sides have split the last four matchups with the most recent being a 1-0 U-M loss in Ann Arbor during the 2019 season. The last contest in South Bend was Sept. 13, 2015, a contest that the Wolverines dropped 2-0.

• The Wolverines lead 8-0-1 in the all-time series against Central Michigan. U-M also won 4-0 at home in its most-recent matchup against the Broncos on Aug. 26, 2021. The only draw was of the scoreless variety in Ann Arbor in 2006.