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Women's Soccer Hosts Alabama A&M Thursday Night

Lancers Open 2025 Campaign Against Bulldogs

Game 1 • Longwood vs. Alabama A&M
Dates & Times Thursday, August 14 | 6 p.m.
Location Farmville, Va. | Athletic Complex
2024 Statistics Longwood | Alabama A&M | Big South
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INSIDE THE MATCHUP
  • Longwood opens the 2025 campaign against Alabama A&M, which is the first meeting between the two teams in program history.
  • The Lancers are coming off a trip to the Big South playoffs a season ago, when the team hosted Presbyterian in the quarterfinals.
  • The season also marks the 32nd under head coach Todd Dyer, who founded the program in 1994.
  • For Alabama A&M, it is the second season under head coach Prince Borde, who guided the team to the SWAC semifinals a season ago.
  • Longwood closed the regular season strong defensively and didn't surrender a goal in the final four matches. During that stretch, the Lancers went 2-0-2 to clinch a spot in the conference tournament for the first time since 2021.
 
TOP RETURNERS
  • The Big South recognized the top returners for each team around the league, and Longwood had six representatives among the league-wide list: Peyton Curney, Sara Curtis, Emma Jones, Meghan Piazza, Sydney Robertson and Berni Wayland.
  • Curney enters her junior season who was an All-Big South selection as a freshman, and the forward has six goals to her credit in two seasons at Longwood. Three are game winners.
  • Curtis was the Big South Goalkeeper of the Year in 2024 after posting a 0.75 goals against average in Big South play, and she ended the year with five straight shutouts.
  • Jones has played at all three levels in her three seasons in Farmville, playing out wide in the midfield, playing up top as a forward, and spending her junior season primarily as a defender after a wave of injuries hit the Lancers. In her career, she has three goals and two assists.
  • Piazza has been an important player up top for the Lancer attack, and she led Longwood in points in 2024 with two goals and two assists. Her first collegiate goal also was a game winner.
  • Robertson has been a rock along the back line for Longwood and earned First Team All-Big South honors as a junior. She helped the team to six shutouts on the year, including five to close the season, while adding two goals.
  • Wayland had an impressive debut as a freshman. She battled injury but started the final eight matches of the season upon her return and was an important part, along with Robertson and Curtis, of five straight shutouts to close the season. She earned Big South All-Freshman Team honors.
 
LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE
  • Longwood, under head coach Todd Dyer, has a long history of developing All-Big South First Team defenders since joining the Big South.
  • Sydney Robertson was the most recent honoree, earning all-league honors in 2024, but she was the eighth Lancer to earn defensive first team honors.
  • She joins Natalie Massey (2012), Alana Mackey (2015), Sydney Wallace (2016-18), Taylor Alvey (2019), Carrie Reaver (2020-21 COVID Spring season), Kylie Cahill (2021), and Brooke Bonner (2023) as Lancer defenders to earn a spot on the Big South first team.
  • Sydney Wallace, who earned the honor three times, was also the Big South Defensive Player of the Year twice (2017 & 2018).
 
ALL THE HISTORY
  • Todd Dyer, a Longwood graduate, has been the only coach in the history of Longwood women's soccer. He was the head coach of the team in 1994 and is entering his 32nd year at the helm of the program.
  • The Lancers, under his direction, have won 284 matches all time, an average of better than nine per season.
  • The team has won 170 matches at the Division I level and another 114 while in the Division II ranks.
  • Since the team joined the Big South in 2012, the Lancers have won 100 matches.
  • Dyer, who was the Big South Coach of the Year in 2016, has also coached four players who have won an "Of The Year" award in the Big South: Sara Curtis (Goalkeeper of the Year, 2024), Sydney Wallace (Defensive Player of the Year, 2017 & 18), Carrier Reaver (Freshman of the Year, 2017), and Amanda Spencer (Freshman of the Year, 2013)
  • His team has also had the scholar-athlete of the year three times: Carrie Reaver twice (2019 and 2020-21) and Teresa Fruchterman (2017).
 
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Players Mentioned

Brooke Bonner

#8 Brooke Bonner

D
5' 4"
Senior
Peyton Curney

#5 Peyton Curney

F
5' 7"
Junior
Sara Curtis

#00 Sara Curtis

GK
5' 10"
Graduate Student
Emma Jones

#28 Emma Jones

F/D
5' 3"
Senior
Meghan Piazza

#4 Meghan Piazza

M
5' 4"
Junior
Sydney Robertson

#15 Sydney Robertson

F/D
5' 7"
Senior
Berni Wayland

#21 Berni Wayland

D
5' 9"
Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Brooke Bonner

#8 Brooke Bonner

5' 4"
Senior
D
Peyton Curney

#5 Peyton Curney

5' 7"
Junior
F
Sara Curtis

#00 Sara Curtis

5' 10"
Graduate Student
GK
Emma Jones

#28 Emma Jones

5' 3"
Senior
F/D
Meghan Piazza

#4 Meghan Piazza

5' 4"
Junior
M
Sydney Robertson

#15 Sydney Robertson

5' 7"
Senior
F/D
Berni Wayland

#21 Berni Wayland

5' 9"
Sophomore
D