During his first full offseason as a head coach, Greg LaPorte coined the nickname Las TORERAS for his team, which is also an acronym for Team, Ownership, Respect, Excellence, Resilience, Ambition and Self-discipline. 

In year two under LaPorte, Las Toreras embodied that acronym that defines what it means to be Toreras.

As a team, they got off to their best start in program history, owning an undefeated record all the way through non-conference play, eight matches to start 2025, one of the last eight teams nationally to be beaten. The squad earned national respect, breaching the U.S. Soccer Coaches West Region Rankings for the first time in the players’ careers.

The excellence carried over into conference play. They set a West Coast Conference record for ties with seven. 

With resilience, they got up each time they were knocked down and never went out without a fight. This showed in the 2025 finale when despite being down three goals to league runners-up Seattle U Saturday afternoon, three seniors combined on a goal to close out the season, inside their home pitch at Torero Stadium in front of a season-best crowd of 917 fans.

The Toreros also proved ambition in front of net as their 28 goals doubled the total from a year before and quadrupled the total from the season before LaPorte’s takeover in 2023, the most since 2019.

With self-discipline, 13 individual Toreras combined for 28 total assists, the most in a single season for the program in at least seven years. 

Individually, senior forward and team captain Josefine Schlichting’s eight goals were the most by a Torero since 2019. Sophomore defender Ella Callanan’s six assists were the most in at least seven years.

Senior Day

The 3-1 defeat to the first-year conference member Redhawks on Saturday was also Senior Day for USD women’s soccer (4-7-7, 1-7-3) inside Torero Stadium. Las Toreras honored seven graduating seniors before the match: Schlichting, captain midfielder Kylie Smith, wingers Jenna Rubidoux and Katelyn Bessemer, grad midfielder Abigail Colton, Puerto Rican National Team defender Emma Gonzalez and forward Olivia Jandreski.