Longwood University Athletics

FARMVILLE, Va. – With a seven-game unbeaten streak and a trip to the Big South semifinals this past spring, 2021 was good to Longwood women's soccer. Now with a 20-match schedule on tap for this fall, the Lancers will have an opportunity to end the year on an even higher note.
 
Returning to a full schedule after an abridged, conference-only slate this past spring, Longwood women's soccer unveiled its 2021 fall schedule Wednesday, which begins with a season-opening exhibition against East Carolina this Tuesday at the Longwood Athletics Complex. Select games will air live on ESPN+, and those dates will be announced later this fall.
 
Including the ECU opener, half of Longwood's 20 games will be non-conference tilts against foes from the America East, American Athletic Conference (AAC), Atlantic 10 (A-10), Patriot League, Southern Conference (SoCon), Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and Sun Belt, while the second half of the schedule features a 10-game Big South gauntlet.
 
Longwood will take on that schedule with a veteran squad coming off a fourth-place Big South finish and a trip to the Big South Championship semifinals this past spring. Under the direction of 28th-year head coach and Longwood alum Todd Dyer, this year's Lancer squad returns six starters and 21 letterwinners from that group, including fifth-year senior starters Madison Hommey and Madison Lockamy, and All-Big South selections Kylie Cahill, Alex Dinger and Kiersten Yuhas.
 
Longwood's 2021 schedule will test that group early and often with a non-conference slate that features three teams that either finished in the top four of their conference during the regular season or reached their conference championship game. Among those are reigning SoCon champion Furman, which is coming off an 8-1-2 season and a No. 15 RPI, Sun Belt runner-up and Commonwealth rival Liberty, and fourth-place AAC finisher East Carolina, whom the Lancers face in a season-opening exhibition on Aug. 10.
 
That lineup is road-heavy as well, as the Lancers play eight of their first nine regular-season games on the road, and 13 games away from home overall. Among those early-season road trips are a three-game swing at VCU (Aug. 13), Wofford (Aug. 20) and Furman (Aug. 22) and a six-game tear that sends the Lancers to Richmond (Aug. 29), Howard (Sept. 2), Western Carolina (Sept. 5), UMBC (Sept. 9), Liberty (Sept. 12) and Western Carolina (Sept. 5).
 
Starting in late September, however, fans will have plenty of opportunities to see the Lancers in action with five of their seven home games taking place in the final month of the regular season. In addition to this Tuesday's exhibition against East Carolina and an Aug. 26 date with Patriot League foe American early in the season, a home-heavy end-of-season stretch begins against Big South rival Radford on Sept. 22 and follows with home bouts against Campbell (Oct. 6), Charleston Southern (Oct. 9), USC Upstate (Oct. 16) and High Point (Oct. 20) at the Longwood Athletics Complex.
 
One of the premier teams in the Big South, the Lancers have rattled off a 49-25-15 conference record since joining the league in 2012. Included in that run are four top-three Big South finishes, three trips to the Big South semifinals and a Big South runner-up finish in 2017.

2021 Longwood Women's Soccer Schedule

Day	Date	Opponent	Location	Time
Tuesday	August 10	East Carolina (Exh.)	Farmville, Va.	2 p.m.
Friday	August 13	at VCU	Richmond, Va.	TBA
Friday	August 20	at Wofford	Spartanburg, S.C.	7 p.m.
Sunday	August 22	at Furman	Greenville, S.C.	2 p.m.
Thursday	August 26	American	Farmville, Va.	7 p.m.
Sunday	August 29	at Richmond	Richmond, Va.	4 p.m.
Thursday	September 2	at Howard	Washington, D.C.	6 p.m.
Sunday	September 5	at Western Carolina	Cullowhee, N.C.	2 p.m.
Thursday	September 9	at UMBC	Baltimore, Md.	6 p.m.
Sunday	September 12	at Liberty	Lynchburg, Va.	1 p.m.
Saturday	September 18	at Winthrop*	Rock Hill, S.C.	TBA
Wednesday	September 22	Radford*	Farmville, Va.	7 p.m.
Saturday	September 25	at Presbyterian*	Clinton, S.C.	2 p.m.
Saturday	October 2	at Gardner-Webb*	Boiling Springs, N.C.	TBA
Wednesday	October 6	Campbell*	Farmville, Va.	7 p.m.
Saturday	October 9	Charleston Southern*	Farmville, Va.	2 p.m.
Wednesday	October 13	at Hampton*	Hampton, Va.	TBA
Saturday	October 16	USC Upstate*	Farmville, Va.	2 p.m.
Wednesday	October 20	High Point*	Farmville, Va.	7 p.m.
Saturday	October 23	at UNC Asheville*	Asheville, N.C.	TBA
TBA	TBA	Big South Championship	TBA	TBA

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