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.