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Women's Soccer
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Thursday, September 25
Durham, N.C.
7 p.m.
Duke University
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Wake Forest
Photo by: Peter Raider, Duke Athletics
Blue Devils Return Home Thursday to Host No. 18 WFU
9/24/2025 1:15:00 PM | Women's Soccer
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Match 10
#18 Wake Forest (8-1-2, 2-0-1 ACC) at #9 Duke (6-2-1, 1-2-0 ACC)
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 - 7 PM (ET) - ACC Network Extra
Durham, N.C. (Koskinen Stadium)
ACC Network Extra Talent: Dean Linke (PXP), Matt Stradley (Color)
NEED TO KNOW
STORYLINES/OTHER BLUE DEVIL NOTES
THE SERIES WITH WAKE FOREST
SCOUTING WAKE FOREST
HEY, I KNOW YOU!
A WIN WOULD...
AGAINST RANKED OPPONENTS
MINESTRELLA IN RECORD BOOKS
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
MARTINHO & ROLLER NET ASSISTS
VARIOUS BLUE DEVIL TIDBITS
Match 10
#18 Wake Forest (8-1-2, 2-0-1 ACC) at #9 Duke (6-2-1, 1-2-0 ACC)
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 - 7 PM (ET) - ACC Network Extra
Durham, N.C. (Koskinen Stadium)
ACC Network Extra Talent: Dean Linke (PXP), Matt Stradley (Color)
NEED TO KNOW
- After being on the road for the last three matches, Duke returns home to Koskinen Stadium Thursday, Sept. 25 as the ninth-ranked Blue Devils host tied for 18th-ranked Wake Forest at 7 p.m.
- Thursday's match will be aired live on ACC Network Extra with Dean Linke (PXP) and Matt Stradley (Color) calling the action.
- Duke will be giving away replica kit t-shirts representing the program's 37th season to the first 140 fans in attendance.
- The match will also be Duke's K9's in Koski promotion - Dogs enter for free and their humans will be asked to sign a waiver before entering through the Whitford entrance to Koskinen Stadium. All dogs and their owners must sit on the east bleachers across the field from Kennedy Tower.
- Duke will feature three straight home contests against WFU (Sept. 25), Pitt (Oct. 2) and North Carolina (Oct. 12).
- The Blue Devils recently played five games over a span of 14 days, but now will play only three matches over the next 20 days.
- First year head coach Kieran Hall has kicked off his career with the Blue Devils with a 6-2-1 ledger.
STORYLINES/OTHER BLUE DEVIL NOTES
- The Blue Devils will play their third ranked opponent over their last four contests.
- Wake Forest and Duke rank No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, in the NCAA RPI.
- Duke boasts an 18-match unbeaten streak at home in Koskinen Stadium.
- Cameron Roller has notched assists in back-to-back contests.
- Duke scored a goal in the first half in 19 out of 22 matches in 2024, including nine out of the final 10 contests. Dating back to last season, the Blue Devils have scored a goal in the first half in 14 out of the last 19 matches.
- The Blue Devils rank second nationally and first in the ACC with 8.78 corner kicks per game.
- Duke has won 13 out of its last 15 ACC regular season matches dating back to last season.
- Mia Minestrella registered her seventh career goal against an ACC opponent at Notre Dame. She owns three goals in three ACC matches in 2025.
- Minestrella ranks tied for 12th nationally with three game-winning goals.
- Avery Oder's four goals on the year ranks tied for 14th nationally among all freshmen.
- Kat Rader ranks second in the ACC in points per game (2.11), second in assists per game (.780), second in assists (7) and tied for seventh in game-winning goals (2). She is tied for eighth nationally in points per game (2.11) and tied for sixth in assists (7).
THE SERIES WITH WAKE FOREST
- Duke and Wake Forest will meet for the 38th time in program history when the Demon Deacons come to town on Thursday.
- The Blue Devils are 22-10-5 all-time against Wake Forest, including a record of 11-2-3 in Durham.
- The teams last faced each other on October 27, 2024, when the Blue Devils topped the No. 2 Demon Deacons 2-0 on the road. Mia Oliaro scored both goals and Mia Minestrella notched one assist.
- Oliaro and Kat Rader have each recorded a brace in their career against Wake Forest. Rader scored two goals as a freshman in a 2-0 home victory against the Demon Deacons on October 6, 2022.
SCOUTING WAKE FOREST
- The No. 19 Demon Deacons enter the match with an 8-1-2 record after their 0-0 draw at Boston College on Sunday. The team is 2-0-1 in ACC play.
- Wake Forest is currently riding a seven-game unbeaten streak. The Demon Deacons have outscored opponents 15-5 during this stretch.
- Freshman Allie Flanagan, freshman Kylie Maxwell and sophomore Lola Ressler lead Wake Forest in scoring with four goals apiece. Maxwell leads the team in points with 12.
- Wake Forest is in its 29th season under head coach Tony Da Luz. The Demon Deacons are coming off a 16-4-4 season in 2024 that ended with a loss in the National Championship.
- The team returned three starters from their College Cup roster, including junior goalkeeper Valentina Amaral. Amaral currently leads the ACC in shutouts with six.
HEY, I KNOW YOU!
- Duke sophomore goalkeeper Caroline Dysart played club soccer on the San Diego Surf squad with Wake Forest's Brooke Miller and Sammi Wiemann.
A WIN WOULD...
- Improve Kieran Hall to 7-2-1 as the head coach at Duke.
- Mark the 14th ACC win over the last 16 ACC regular season contests.
AGAINST RANKED OPPONENTS
- Duke has faced four ranked opponents this season and the Blue Devils are 2-2 in those contests -- #11 Penn State (W, 3-2), #8 Arkansas (W, 2-0), #5 Virginia (L, 3-1) and #6 Notre Dame (L, 3-2).
- Mia Minestrella owns five goals in those four matches, while adding an assist for 11 points.
- Kat Rader, Avery Oder and Devin Lynch have added goals.
- Rader owns four assists and one goal for six points.
- Three of those four matches have come on the road.
MINESTRELLA IN RECORD BOOKS
- Junior Mia Minestrella etched her name once again in the Duke record books as she became the first Blue Devil to score goals in the first three ACC contests to open a season.
- She has registered goals against Virginia, Miami and Notre Dame - all on the road.
- Minestrella leads Duke with seven goals to go along with three assists for 17 points. Her 34 shots, 17 shots on goal and three game-winning goals leads the Blue Devils as well.
- She ranks 15th nationally in goals (7), 19th in points (17) and 18th in goals per game (0.78).
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
- The Blue Devils boast a 76-14-11 record at Koskinen Stadium since the start of the 2017 campaign.
- In 2025, Duke has scored 10 of its 17 goals at Koskinen Stadium in the first half.
- The Blue Devils have allowed only seven first half shots and 24 total in five matches.
- Duke has outscored its opponents 69-8 at home over the last two seasons. The Blue Devils totaled a program-record 50 goals at home last season, passing the previous mark of 40 from 2017.
- So far in 2025, Duke has outscored opponents 17-3 at home with Kat Rader (5), Avery Oder (4), Mia Minestrella (3) and Farrah Walters (2) leading the way.
- Caroline Dysart has allowed only one goal in 335:44 minutes at home in 2025.
- Minestrella scored 10 of her 12 goals last season at Koskinen, while Mia Oliaro posted six and Devin Lynch totaled five on the year.
MARTINHO & ROLLER NET ASSISTS
- The Duke duo of Lauren Martinho and Cameron Roller registered assists on the game-winning goal at Miami to help lead the Blue Devils to a 1-0 victory.
- Roller totaled her first assist of the season and sixth of her career.
- Martinho collected her first collegiate assist as she took the corner kick.
VARIOUS BLUE DEVIL TIDBITS
- Duke is ranked No. 6 overall in the NCAA RPI -- Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa, Mississippi State, Wake Forest and Duke.
- Duke owns two wins against a pair of top-11 ranked opponents -- No. 11 Penn State and No. 8 Arkansas.
- Junior Madison Foxhoven made her first collegiate start against VMI and played a career-high 57 minutes.
- Mia Minestrella has scored 13 of her 19 career goals at home inside Koskinen Stadium.
- Carina Lageyre and Kat Rader have started 45 consecutive matches in a Blue Devil uniform.
- Cameron Roller has started 39 matches in a row.
- Of Duke's 25 student-athletes on the 2025 roster, a total of 11 of those are from the state of California.
- Kat Rader now owns 11 career game-winning goals, which ranks tied for fifth on Duke's all-time charts.
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