Author: Joe Alexander

The list includes three UTSA players:

Jasmine Kessler – junior goalkeeper from Spring, Texas

Zoe May – senior midfielder from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Michelle Polo – junior midfielder from Magnolia, Texas

The American Athletic Conference also released its preseason women’s soccer poll.
1. Memphis
2. South Florida
3. Rice
4. East Carolina
5. North Texas
6. Tulsa
7. UAB
8. UTSA
9. Florida Atlantic
10. Charlotte
11. Temple

The Roadrunners recorded a preseason home-field victory over A&M-Corpus Christi and a preseason road loss to 19th ranked Texas.

UTSA’s first 2025 game that counts will be at home at Park West on Thursday at 7 p.m. against Houston. The Roadrunners follow that up with another home game on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. against ninth-ranked TCU.

Coach Derek Pittman and UTSA senior midfielder Zoe May took time on Monday to answer questions as part of the program’s weekly news conference on ESPN+.

“We want to score goals. We want to play aggressively,” Pittman said. “We got to see that in the opening game against Corpus Christi.

“And then even against University of Texas last weekend, I thought it was really positive. We went in there with the intention to put our best foot forward and played our game. I thought we did an excellent job of that – disrupting them in many ways. A bit unfortunate to not score a goal ourselves but we learned quite a bit from that game. It’s going to be able to set us up going into a really difficult week against Houston and TCU.”

May is in her second season at UTSA. Last season she was one of the new faces in the Roadrunners’ lineup after transferring from Memphis. She enters this season as one of the most experienced players on a roster with a lot of new players.

“It’s extremely exciting,” May said. “We have 12 new girls, a lot of freshmen and transfers. It’s definitely some new faces but the energy on the field is unmatched since any team I’ve ever been on really. You can feel it on the bench even, in the locker room, just hanging out with the girls.

“It’s been a lot of fun. We have really great chemistry. It all clicks. So I think really getting faced with these difficult teams raises the level of competitiveness for us and makes us excited to go out every practice to give it our all to prepare for them. I know we’re ready. We’re excited.”

UTSA had an 8-7-3 record last season. The Roadrunners’ first American Athletic Conference game of 2025 is Sept. 11, on the road against Florida Atlantic. Their first conference home game is Sept. 18 against North Texas.

The Roadrunners beat A&M-Corpus Christi 6-0 in an exhibition at UTSA Park West.

The UTSA roster lists 17 players as either freshman or redshirt freshman – giving the team lots of new faces.

There also a number of familiar faces including seniors Kameron Kloza, Haley Lopez, Zoe May, Rylee Miller and Izzy Lane.

UTSA beat A&M-Corpus Christi 6-0 in a women’s soccer match that was broken up into three 30-minute periods.

Jasmine Kessler, UTSA’s returning starter from last season, played the first 30 minutes. Kessler is a junior from Klein Collins High in Spring, Texas.

Brilynn Mueller was in goal for the second 30 minutes. She is a freshman from Liberty, Missouri.

Jaelyn Bracamonte played the final 30 minutes. She is a freshman from Clear Lake High School in Houston.

With UTSA dominating most of the night, none of the three goaltenders faced a lot of pressure.

Kessler made her mark early on the offensive end. She scored on a free kick from midfield for UTSA’s first goal of the night.

The freshman forward from Klein Oak High School in Spring, Texas, scored three goals as UTSA recorded a 6-0 women’s soccer exhibition victory over A&M-Corpus Christi.

UTSA also got goals from Jasmine Kessler, Michelle Polo and Ava Jackson.

Kessler, the Roadrunners’ returning starter at goalkeeper, powered in UTSA’s first goal on a free kick from midfield in the fourth minute. Kessler is a junior from Klein Collins High School in Spring,

Bailey made it 2-0 with a goal in the 22nd minute and 3-0 in the 48th minute.

Michelle Polo scored off an assist from Leah Varela in the 59th minute to extend the lead to 4-0 in the 59th minute. Polo is a junior from Magnolia, Texas, and started in 14 games last season for UTSA. Varela is a redshirt freshman from Rio Rancho, N.M.

Bailey scored her third and final goal of the night in the 67th minute to make it 5-0.

Ava Jackson scored UTSA’s final goal in the 81st minute. Jackson is a redshirt freshman from Burnaby British, Columbia.

The Roadrunners play again Friday at 7 p.m. on the road against Texas.

UTSA’s regular-season home opener is Aug. 14, at 7:30 p.m. against Houston.

CELEBRATING AFTER THE GOALS