COUNTER ATTACKS
10 - Kiera Smeenge and Desiree Mendoza joined the exclusive list of 10 'Eaters with 80 matches and 70 starts for UC Irvine
101 - A total of 101 Anteaters have been named All-Big West under coach Juniper with 6 or more in 11 of the 17 seasons
 
THROW-INS
104 - 104 'Eaters have played 50+ matches for UCI in their careers adding three players this year (Castagna, Crowder, Perez)
5,003 - Freshmen played 5,003 minutes as a collective between 7 players in 45 starts scoring 2 goals, 1 GWG, and 5 assists

SET PIECES
8 - UCI's First Round loss ended a streak of 8 consecutive Big West Championship advancements and shutouts
16th - This was the 24th Big West Championship, 16th including the 'Eaters, and 13th under head coach Scott Juniper

 
· All-Big West awards included six Anteaters this year, the 11th time in coach Juniper's 17 seasons with the program UCI has received six or more
Þ First Team recognized one Anteater, junior Emilie Castagna. She scored four times with three in Big West matches. Castagna adds to her accolades as Big West Championship MVP as a sophomore and Big West All-Freshman Team in 2022
Þ Second Team added a pair of Anteaters. First-time honoree Laila El Behery was the team's leader in scoring, game-winners, and points. Kiera Smeenge received her fourth honor off the back of First Team status a year ago
Þ Honorable Mention shone on two Anteaters. Fifth-year midfielder Desiree Mendoza made her first All-Big West team after one goal, a game-winner, and an assist. Grad keeper Ashley Naylor picked up her first as well after none in four years playing in the ACC. She started all 19 matches for the Anteaters finishing second in the Big West in goals-against-average
Þ All-Freshman Team saw an Anteater for the 10th time in 12 years of the honor. Ivy Williams played 1,320 minutes as a freshman midfielder and tied for the team high of three assists
· On top of the season awards, UC Irvine grabbed three weekly awards. Freshman Milan Heisdorf score the first one after scoring her first career goal won her Big West Freshman of the Week. Emilie Castagna added one with a three-goal week that included her first career brace and game-winner for her second career weekly honor. The final week of awards saw Laila El Behery score one from her game-winner that sent UCI to the Big West Championship. She now has two Offensive awards to go with two Freshman of the Week honors
· Big West Championship - UCI is 12-10-2 all-time in the tourney with four titles. Each of the last two began in the First Round for the 'Eaters. UCI is 6-3 all-time in home championship matches.
· A few milestones were hit for the Anteaters in 2024:
Þ Kiera Smeenge and Desiree Mendoza each reached 80 career matches and 70 career starts. The duo are the 12th and 13th Anteaters to reach 80 career matches finishing at 83 and 82, respectively. They also became the 18th and 19th 'Eaters with 70+ starts, and Smeenge was one away from her 80th start finishing sixth in UC Irvine history
Þ Emilie Castagna, Aislynn Crowder, and Mihaela Perez joining the 50-match club among UC Irvine careers upping that total to 104 Anteaters all-time
· Anteater freshmen played a total of 5,003 minutes. Starting lineups saw freshmen on 45 occasions spread out among the seven different 'Eaters to see minutes. On the stat sheet, the crew logged two goals, a game-winner, and five assists for nine points
· UCI's offense scored 19 goals in 19 matches with 14 of them coming from the trio of El Behery, Castagna, and Kaitlyn Paculba. UCI finished with a highlight draw at Washington State, and they had a winning road record that included a matchup at No. 3 Stanford
· The defense finished with six shutouts led by Ashley Naylor. The team was third in goals-against-average and shutout percentage allowing 21 goals in 19 matches
· Jenika Davis made a triumphant return playing in one match almost exactly two years after she was sidelined with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and just over a year after a full recovery