SAN DIEGO – The defending West Coast Conference champion San Diego men's soccer program (0-0-0, 0-0-0 WCC) is set to open their 2023 campaign, facing Seattle (0-0-0, 0-0-0 WAC) on Thursday night in Seattle.  
 
The game will kick off at 4 p.m., and will be streamed via ESPN Plus.
 
WHAT TO WATCH FOR

• San Diego is aiming to become the first repeat WCC men's soccer champion since Saint Mary's in 2018 and 2019.
• Three players were recently selected to the WCC's All-Preseason Team, as Mason Tunbridge, Trevor Dillon and Ross Johnstone led the way for the program.
• As a team, the program was picked to finish second, just two votes behind Portland, but with equal amounts of first place votes (four).
• The Toreros return several impact players from last season's roster, including reigning WCC Defender of the Year in Dillon, a First Team All-West Region honoree in Tunbridge and the 2022 WCC Freshman of the Year in Simon Duus Muller.
• Tunbridge has generated plenty of early-season buzz, being named a United Soccer Coaches Midfielder to Watch and being tabbed to TopDrawerSoccer's top-100 players in the nation.
• Head Coach Brian Quinn is also the reigning WCC Coach of the Year and will have six returning All-WCC contributors at his disposal in 2023.
• The incoming class of freshmen and transfers was ranked as the No. 20 class in the nation according to TopDrawerSoccer.

 
TORERO TIDBITS

• San Diego has only faced Seattle once in program history, dropping the lone meeting in Torero Stadium in 2018.
• The Toreros are 5-4-1 all-time against current members of the WAC.
• The members of the 2023 roster represent 10 U.S. states and six additional countries outside of the United States.
• The Toreros feature 15 new players on the roster, with 10 freshmen and five transfers joining the fold.

 
To stay up to date with Toreros men's soccer, follow the team on Instagram & Twitter by searching "USDmsoccer".