Trevecca Women's Soccer | Trojans Picked Ninth in 2025 GSC Preseason Coaches Poll

NASHVILLE - The Gulf South Conference released the 2025 GSC Preseason Women's Soccer Coaches Poll, All-Conference Team, and 2025 GSC Newcomer Watch list.

The Trojans are picked to finish in a ninth this season by the league coaches.

The poll and preseason team were determined by GSC's 13 head women's soccer coaches, who were not able to vote for their own team or student-athletes.

Trevecca placed two student-athletes on the 2025 GSC Newcomers Watch list. They are Cristina Escudero (Madrid, Spain / Murray State College - Kansas) and Kate Nelson (North Alabama).

Escudero scored eight goals last season for the Aggies. She added five assists for a 21-point season. She scored six goals with seven assists as a freshman, totally 19 points. The Aggies went 24-10-5 during her two years there. Finishing 9-6-3 in her sophomore campaign and 15-4-2 her freshman year.

Nelson played two years at North Alabama after a standout career at Fred J Page High School, playing for coach Nathaniel Clapp. Nelson was a key figure in the Patriots two State Championships in 2021 & 2022. She earned All-District and All-Region honors in 2021-2022, also winning the 2019 Player of the Year. She broke the record for most goals scored in a season her junior year while setting up the most assists her senior year.

LOOKING BACK AT THE 2024 TROJANS

Trevecca, picked to finish ninth the season, finished their first season in the GSC with a 4-8-3 mark overall and 3-6-3 in league play.

TNU opened the 2024 season with a 2-0 non-conference road win over Young Harris College. The Trojans dropped their next three, the first two being non-conference games. The third, was a 1-0 loss at UAH in their GSC debut. The Trojans played even, 2-2, in their GSC home debut against the Univ. of West Alabama. The team broke through for a GSC win on the road at Auburn Montgomery.

They returned home and showed their metal with a 1-1 tie against then No. 15 Univ. of West Florida. The Trojans couldn't follow that up and had a stretch of five games without a win, going 0-3-2. The team did add two more wins over their last four, but it wasn't enough to get them in the postseason championships. The team finished tenth overall, just outside reaching the postseason.

A PEAK AT THE 2025 TROJANS

The Trojans head into the 2025 season with Matheus Mello as the new head coach, looking to build on last year's results and move up the GSC table.

The Trojans open year two in the GSC with a non-conference match versus the Univ. of Tampa (Sept. 4) in a region match up. The next two matches, also non-conference tilts, sees Young Harris College (Sept. 9) return the game in Nashville and former Great Midwest rival Kentucky Wesleyan visits for senior night on Sept. 11 at Trevecca. The final non-conference match is at Carson-Newman University on Sept. 13.

The conference slate begins in Livingston, Alabama when the Trojans face the Tigers of the Univ. of West Alabama on Sept. 19. The first home GSC game is Sept. 21 when the Chargers of Alabama Huntsville visit at 2 PM. It is the first of three consecutive matches on the Hill. AUM (Sept. 26) and Valdosta State (Sept. 28) are next.

The Trojans finish the season with a pair of home matches against Christian Brothers (Oct. 31) and Union University (Nov. 2).

2025 GSC WOMEN'S SOCCER PREVIEW

For the second straight year, West Florida is the favorite in the 2025 Gulf South Conference Women's Soccer Preseason Poll, as the league also announced its preseason all-conference team and newcomer watchlist.

After sweeping both the regular-season and tournament titles last year, West Florida earned all 12 possible first-place votes, leading the preseason rankings with 144 points. Montevallo, last season's regular-season and tournament runner-up, was picked second with 132 points and one first-place vote.

2025 GSC WOMEN'S SOCCER PRESEASON COACHES POLL

1	Univ. of West Florida	(12) 144
2	Univ. of Montevallo	(1) 132
3	Lee Univ.	122
4	Union Univ.	104
5	Mississippi College	101
6	Valdosta State Univ.	94
7	Delta State Univ.	67
8	Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville	63
9	Trevecca Nazarene Univ.	52
10	Spring Hill College	51
11	Univ. of West Alabama	43
12	Auburn Univ. at Montgomery	27
13	Christian Brothers Univ.	14

First-place votes in parenthesis ( )

2025 PRESEASON ALL-GSC TEAM

GK – Abby Whitcomb, Lee
D – Irene Arias, Union
D – Ava Webster, Delta State
D – Makayla Parkes, West Florida
D – Katherine Kimmel, Valdosta State
D – Avery Sides, Lee
M – Julieta Limardo, West Florida
M – Grace Berry, Lee
M – Morgan Goehring, Montevallo
M – Maria Rojas, Valdosta State
F – Mya Swinton, West Florida
F – Shadia Valenzuela, Montevallo
F – Isabel Dillehay, Montevallo
F – Lucia Revuelto, Union

2025 GSC NEWCOMERS WATCH LIST

School	Name	Yr.	Pos.	Hometown/Prev. School
UAH	AK Wallace	Fr.	F	Talladega, Ala./Donoho HS
UAH	Taylor Fegley	Fr.	D	Mobile, Ala./Mountain View HS
AUM	Aisling Roche	Fr.	D	Wexford, Ireland/Wexford FC
AUM	Aoibheann Rankin	Fr.	M	Wexford, Ireland/Wexford FC
AUM	Lacie Goodale	Fr.	M	Pace, Fla./Coastal Rush
CBU	Lola Alonso	Fr.	D	Madrid, Spain/Salesianos Santo Dominigo Savio
CBU	Savanna Mondesir-Singh	Gr.	D	Richmond, Ontario, Canada/St. Bonaventure
CBU	Madison Woolridge	Sr.	F	Tampa, Fla./Union (Tenn.)
DSU	Raegan Tucker	Jr.	M	Madison, Miss./Northwest Mississippi CC
MC	Kyra Morgan	Fr.	M	Wellington, NZ/Texas A&M Corpus Christi
MC	Amelie Wittenkamp	Jr.	D	Oelstykke, Denmark/Pearl River CC
MC	Abby Badurak	Jr.	F/D	Gulfport, Miss./Pearl River CC
UM	Lara Brewis	Sr.	D	Sydney, Australia/UT-Permian Basin
UM	Stina Johansson	Fr.	D	Bromma, Sweden/Bele Barkarby
UM	Sierra Nickelberry	Jr.	D	Fontana, Calif./Azusa Pacific
*TNU*	*Cristina Escudero*	*Jr.*	M	*Madrid, Spain/Murray State (Okla.)*
*TNU*	*Kate Nelson*	*Jr.*	F	*Nolensville, Tenn./North Alabama*
UU	Laurel Butt	Fr.	F	Dayton, Tenn./Rhea HS
UU	Chloe Roberts	Fr.	F/M	Fayetteville, Ga./Whitewater HS
VSU	Rhyia Mitchell	Fr.	F	Fort Mill, S.C/Legion Collegiate HS
VSU	Kyndal Smith	Fr.	D	Tallahassee, Fla./Chiles HS
UWA	Talitha Hines	Fr.	F	Jacksonville, Fla./Jacksonville Armada FC
UWA	Mikaela Carpino	Fr.	M	Milton, Ontario, Canada/Bishop Reding Catholic
UWA	Bailee Fairley	Jr.	F	Collinsville, Miss./Holmes CC
UWF	Rece Grant	Jr.	M	Peoria, Ariz./Northern Arizona
UWF	Belle Okoroafo	Sr.	GK	Kentwood, Mich./Michigan State
UWF	Nicole Salawa	Fr.	F	Poland/Resovia Rzeszow