STILLWATER — Penalty kicks kept the Cowgirls out of the NCAA quarterfinals last spring, but they’ll enter the new season having returned 10 of 11 starters from those NCAA Tournament matches.
Oklahoma State starts its 2021 campaign Thursday in Neal Patterson Stadium with a match against UTSA before hosting Pitt on Sunday. The Cowgirls played in the fall and spring last season because of the pandemic but ended the school year 13-3-2. OSU benefits in 2021 by having four players taking advantage of COVID-eligibility waivers, but those waivers were available to all teams, meaning the level of play should be up throughout the country.