Thoughts from Head Coach Scott Juniper
"This season was an adventure, like it always is, but this had so many twists and turns.  Beating Cal in front of a sellout crowd was a massive start but we stumbled in a few games after that.  Sliding into the playoffs late was a humbling experience and the team just caught fire after that.  When it was win or go home this team found another level.  To follow last year's historic season with a run to the sweet sixteen is a huge achievement for these players and I am excited to see where they go from here."

350 - UC Irvine scored win No. 350 in program history with its First Round victory over USC
3rd - UCI reached the 3rd Round for the 2nd time in program history in their 4th NCAA Tournament trip joining the 2010 squad
11th - Glo Hinojosa tied a program record with her coach set by coach Danielle de Seriere with her 11th shutout this season
2-2 - The 'Eaters played against four Power 5 schools going 2-2 overall and 1-1 against ranked opponents
24 - UCI matched their most matches in a season at 24 with Manzo, Fung, Chavez, Hinojosa, and Creighton played in all
551:40 - The National Player of the Week Glo Hinojosa had her shutout streak snapped at 551:40 on a 66th-minute PK Friday
 
· The Anteaters returned to the NCAA Tournament for a second straight year and fourth time overall joining the 2010, 2011, and 2021 squads.
· Two years in a row now UCI has topped a higher-seeded Pac-12 school in the First Round topping the nation's No. 3 squad, UCLA, 1-0, ending their 26-match unbeaten streak in one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history in 2021. Now in 2022, UCI takes down No. 14 USC, 2-0, led by Destinee Manzo's 16th-minute goal, Glo Hinojosa's career high eight saves and shutout, and capped by Alyssa Moore's fifth goal of the year in the 88th minute
· UCI is 4-3-2 all-time in the NCAAs and remains unbeaten in the First Round at 3-0-1
· UCI won its third Big West Championship over Long Beach State, 3-0, to claim back-to-back titles. UCI has made 11 trips under head coach Scott Juniper as he claims his second title.
· National Player of the Week Glo Hinojosa finishes her career as one of UCI's greatest goalkeepers. Her career 0.91 GAA is third all-time at UCI, sixth with 27 wins, third in shutouts with 21, third-best win percentage at .649, and cracking the program's top 10 in saves with 161 with a single-game high eight at USC. After the third round, she led the nation with 2,220 minutes on top of the 4,283 for her career. She's tied coach de Seriere for the program record with 11 shutouts this season which includes four straight entering Friday and three in the Big West Tournament to earn tournament MVP. Hinojosa and her defense have put up two shutout streaks of over 500 minutes in her career. The 2022 streak reached 551:40 before conceding to Brown in the 66th minute finished three minutes shy of their 554:57 streak in 2021
· Amber Huff had an amazing run to the finish the season with 10 assists in the final seven matches. Her 11 assists finish second in program history for a single season behind Tanya Taylor's 12 from the 2010 season. She matched a program record with three assists vs. Hawai'i, the fourth 'Eater to do so and first since Tanya Taylor in 2010, and her throw-in led to the fourth goal in that match. She then added five assists on UCI's six Big West Championship goals to assist toward National Team of the Week recognition by Top Drawer. She added assists in two of UCI's postseason goals starting with Saturday's game-winner by Manzo on the throw-in as well as a corner kick to Suus de Bakker's goal Sunday at Alabama.
· Other stat leaders include Manzo and Moore each topping the team with six goals this season. Manzo's 15 points led UCI with Moore adding 12 and Huff 11. Moore dropped four game-winners to enter the top 10 in UCI history. The minutes leader again is Gianna Creighton at 2,191 two ahead of Maddy Chavez. Creighton is up to 5,568 minutes in her career, and Alex Jaquez topped the 5,000 minute mark in the season's final match. UCI's 24 matches played tied the single-season record with five players playing all 24 and three starting every match
· UC Irvine's active stat leaders begin with Alyssa Moore's 12 career goals followed by 10 from Destinee Manzo. Moore shares the game-winning goal lead with Desiree Mendoza with five each. Amber Huff leads UCI with 15 career assists. Huff and Alex Jaquez each have over 70 career matches played, and three other players hit 60 matches this year - Gianna Creighton, Maddy Chavez, and Destinee Manzo - making a grand total of 92 Anteaters with 50 or more career matches. Manzo also holds the shot lead with 94 and 38 on goal.