San Diego (8-4-3, 3-1-2 WCC) at Seattle U (5-6-3, 2-2-2 WCC)
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026 • 7 p.m. PT • Championship Field • Seattle, Wash.
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LAST TIME OUT
• San Diego fell 3-1 at No. 19 UCLA on Oct. 25 at Wallis Annenberg Stadium, ending a two-match winning streak. The Toreros closed non-conference play at 5-3-1 and moved to 8-4-3 overall.

• UCLA went ahead in the 24th minute on Ander Marticorena's goal, 38 seconds after a corner kick, and added second-half goals by Mathis Richter in the 56th and Oliver Roche in the 63rd. Jaime Amaro assisted the first and third.

• Oliver Rhoades answered in the 67th minute for his second goal of the season, finishing a Matteo Salcedo assist 2:21 after Salcedo came off the bench. The assist was Salcedo's fifth, giving him the team lead outright.

• San Diego held a 6-4 shot edge in the first half. UCLA finished ahead 12-11 in shots, 7-4 on target and 8-3 in corners.

• Iain Wagner had a team-high four shots, and UCLA goalkeeper Tristan Shaw made three saves, two on Wagner and one on Elijah Zelkind.

• Lucca Adams made four saves, three of them after halftime.

• Kevin Pena and Zelkind made their third straight starts, and 15 Toreros saw action. Freshman Tony Ramirez served a one-match suspension for his red card against Santa Clara and is eligible to return Saturday.

• UCLA, No. 22 in this week's United Soccer Coaches poll, leads the all-time series 25-9-4. Brian Quinn is 1-2-0 against the Bruins.

THE SERIES WITH SEATTLE U
• Saturday is the fourth all-time meeting between San Diego and Seattle U. The Toreros lead the series 2-1-0, and the teams have each scored five goals.

• San Diego has won the last two meetings by a combined 5-1. All three meetings have come under Brian Quinn.

• No. 15 San Diego won 3-0 at Torero Stadium on Oct. 18, 2025, in the teams' first meeting as WCC opponents. Devin Zachry scored in the 37th minute and Steven Ramirez added goals in the 79th and 86th, both assisted by Iain Wagner. Lucca Adams made one save for the clean sheet, and the Toreros outshot the Redhawks 20-8.

• Saturday is San Diego's second visit to Championship Field. The Toreros opened the 2023 season there with a 2-1 win, scoring twice in 14 seconds, starting in the 61st minute, while down a goal and a man: Mason Tunbridge off a Cesar Bahena feed, then Samy Kanaan off a Tunbridge assist for the first goal of his collegiate career.

• That 2023 opener was Nate Daligcon's first match as Seattle U's head coach and Oliver Rhoades' collegiate debut.

• Seattle U won the first meeting 4-0 at Torero Stadium on Sept. 19, 2018, in Quinn's first season, outshooting San Diego 19-3.

SCOUTING THE REDHAWKS
• Seattle U (5-6-3, 2-2-2 WCC) won 1-0 at San Francisco on Saturday to snap a three-match losing streak. Freshman forward Aaron Leon scored the only goal in the 84th minute, the first of his collegiate career, off a Victor Akoum assist, and senior goalkeeper Levi Bieber made four saves as the Dons took 26 shots.

• The Redhawks are 3-1-2 at Championship Field, where No. 21 Portland handed them their first home loss of the season, 3-0, on Oct. 21. Saturday is their Senior Day, and they close the regular season at Denver on Nov. 6.

• Junior forward Alex Notzka leads Seattle U with 10 goals, the first Redhawk to reach double digits since James Morris in 2023. He has two hat tricks, against Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 31 and Saint Mary's on Oct. 3, and has twice been named WCC Offensive Player of the Week.

• Freshman forward Leo Flores has five goals and two assists, including a hat trick in a 3-3 draw at Pacific on Sept. 30.

• Seattle U has scored 28 goals and allowed 25 in 14 matches. Thirteen of those goals came in home wins over Cal State Fullerton (7-1) on Aug. 31 and UC Davis (6-1) on Sept. 3.

• The teams have six common opponents. San Diego is 4-1-1 against them and Seattle U is 1-3-2, with losses to Washington (3-1), LMU (2-0) and Portland (3-0), draws with Santa Clara (0-0) and Pacific (3-3) and the win at San Francisco.

• Nate Daligcon is in his fourth season as head coach after succeeding Pete Fewing in 2023. Seattle U was picked fifth in the WCC Preseason Coaches Poll.

TALE OF THE TAPE

San Diego statistics through Oct. 25 (15 matches) and Seattle U statistics through Oct. 24 (14 matches).

GOALS IN BUNCHES
• San Diego has scored 11 goals over its last four matches, including at least three in three straight: four against Portland, three at Pacific and three against Santa Clara. The Toreros scored 16 goals in their first 11 matches.

• Eight different Toreros have scored in that stretch: Kevin Pena, Steven Ramirez and Oliver Rhoades twice each, and Taj Eagleston, Iain Wagner, Ethan McNaughton, Devin Dillon and Elijah Zelkind once.

• San Diego has taken 76 shots over the four matches, 19.0 per match, after averaging 13.5 over its first 11.

• The 3-0 win at Pacific and the 3-1 win over Santa Clara were San Diego's first back-to-back multi-goal wins of the season.

• Twelve Toreros have scored this season, with McNaughton and Zelkind the 11th and 12th.

DEAD-BALL DANGER
• San Diego's first two goals against Santa Clara came from left-sided corner kicks: Ethan McNaughton headed in Kevin Pena's delivery at the near post, and Devin Dillon nodded Matteo Salcedo's corner into an empty net at the far post.

• The Toreros earned a season-high 13 corners against the Broncos, topping their previous high of 10 against San Diego State and at San Francisco. San Diego has 90 corners this season to its opponents' 74.

• Salcedo has assisted three goals that began with dead balls: his free kick against Portland was headed back across goal by Tobias Polz for Steven Ramirez's equalizer, his corner set up Dillon's winner against Santa Clara, and he assisted Iain Wagner's 25-yard opener against San Diego State after a corner was headed clear.

• Pena struck a 25-yard free kick into the upper-left corner against Portland, and Taj Eagleston's 55th-minute winner at UC Irvine came off a set piece, a half volley after his first shot came back off the post.

• Ramirez is 3-for-3 on penalty kicks this season, and San Diego's opponents are 2-for-2.

ON THE ROAD
• Saturday is San Diego's 11th road match of the season and its last of the regular season. The Toreros are 5-3-2 away from Torero Stadium, with 15 goals scored and 12 allowed.

• San Diego is 2-1-1 in its last four road matches, winning 2-1 at LMU and 3-0 at Pacific, drawing 2-2 at San Francisco and falling 3-1 at UCLA.

• All three road losses have come against ranked teams: 1-0 at No. 1 Stanford and No. 16 Kansas City and 3-1 at No. 19 UCLA. Four of the five road wins came by a 2-1 score: at Washington, California Baptist, UC Irvine and LMU.

• San Diego has played before 9,115 fans in 10 road matches, an average of 912, led by 1,801 at Washington.

• The Toreros are 3-1-1 at Torero Stadium and close the regular season at home against Saint Mary's on Nov. 6, their Senior Day.

CLOSING IN ON THE WCC TOURNAMENT
• Portland beat Santa Clara on Saturday to move to 6-0-0 in league play. The Pilots' 18 points are one more than San Diego can reach, ending the Toreros' bid for a fifth straight regular-season title.

• San Diego and Denver are tied for second with 11 points. The Toreros have two league matches left, at Seattle U on Saturday and against Saint Mary's on Nov. 6.

• A win Saturday would clinch San Diego a place in the WCC Tournament, whose champion earns the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

• For the first time, the WCC will stage a men's soccer tournament. The top four regular-season finishers meet in single-elimination semifinals on Nov. 11 and a final on Nov. 14, with the higher seed hosting each match.

• Pacific and Seattle U are tied for fourth with 8 points. Seattle U hosts San Diego and closes at Denver.

• Saturday's other league matches are Denver at Santa Clara, Portland at Pacific and San Francisco at LMU.

• All four of San Diego's WCC losses since the start of the 2022 season have come against Portland. The Toreros are 27-0-5 against the rest of the conference over that span.

• USD went 25-3-3 in WCC regular-season play across its four title seasons: 6-0-1 in 2022, 5-1-1 in 2023, 7-1-0 in 2024 and 7-1-1 in 2025. The 2025 crown made San Diego the first program in league history to win four straight.

• The 2026 WCC men's soccer field has nine teams, with Denver joining this season, and each plays an eight-match league schedule.

WCC STANDINGS

Standings as of Oct. 29, ranked by points (three for a win, one for a draw), with tied teams listed alphabetically. The top four finishers qualify for the WCC Tournament.

RAMIREZ SETS THE PACE
• Steven Ramirez leads San Diego with seven goals and 16 points. He had a point in five straight matches before UCLA: goals at LMU, at San Francisco, against Portland and at Pacific, then an assist against Santa Clara.

• His penalty kick at Pacific was the 20th goal of his career: one as a freshman in 2023, four in 2024, eight in 2025 and seven this season.

• One more goal would match his 2025 total of eight, with two regular-season matches left.

• All three of San Diego's penalty kicks this season have been taken and converted by Ramirez: at UC Santa Barbara, at San Francisco and at Pacific.

• His seven goals account for more than a quarter of San Diego's 27. He has 40 shots and 13 on target, one behind Iain Wagner in both categories.

• Ramirez scored twice against Seattle U last season, in the 79th and 86th minutes of a 3-0 win at Torero Stadium.

WINNING THE SHOT BATTLE
• San Diego has taken more shots than its opponent in nine of 15 matches and is 7-1-1 in those games. The lone loss was the 5-4 decision against Portland, when San Diego held a 17-14 edge.

• Shots were even in two matches, a 1-0 loss at Kansas City (12-12) and the 2-2 draw at San Francisco (18-18). San Diego is 1-2-1 when outshot, a group that includes the 2-1 win at No. 1 Washington and Sunday's 3-1 loss at UCLA (12-11).

• The Toreros' 24-3 margin at Pacific is the widest of the season, and the 24-8 margin against Santa Clara is second. San Diego also outshot Denver 16-6, San Diego State 16-7 and UC Irvine 14-6.

• Pacific's three shots were the fewest by a Torero opponent this season, half the previous low of six by UC Irvine and Denver.

• San Diego averages 15.0 shots per match to its opponents' 10.8 and puts 36% of its attempts on target, compared with 31% for opponents.

COMING FROM BEHIND
• San Diego has conceded first in eight of its 15 matches and is 3-4-1 in them. It is 5-0-1 when scoring first.

• Three of the Toreros' eight wins have come after conceding the first goal: against Liberty on Aug. 23, at UC Irvine on Sept. 8 and at LMU on Sept. 30.

• The four losses after conceding first were 1-0 road defeats at No. 1 Stanford, on an 89th-minute goal, and at Kansas City, where the Toreros played the final 54 minutes with 10 men, the 5-4 home loss to Portland and the 3-1 loss at UCLA.

• Even down 5-2 against Portland, San Diego scored twice in 1:58 through Kevin Pena to make it 5-4 with 17 minutes to play.

• The answer at LMU took 68 seconds. The Lions scored at 21:45, and Steven Ramirez equalized at 22:53.

• San Diego trailed 1-0 at halftime against Liberty and at UC Irvine. The Toreros scored three times between the 54th and 64th minutes to beat the Flames 3-1, then scored twice in a span of 2:21 to beat the Anteaters 2-1.

• The Toreros have been quick to capitalize elsewhere as well. Ramirez scored twice in 91 seconds against Liberty, Luca Fava's winner at California Baptist came 45 seconds after the Lancers went down to 10 men, Iain Wagner scored 77 seconds after San Diego went down a man at Pacific, and Devin Dillon and Elijah Zelkind scored 95 seconds apart against Santa Clara.

HELP FROM THE BENCH
• Substitutes have scored four of San Diego's 27 goals: Conner Gardenhour at UC Irvine, Devin Zachry at San Francisco and Kevin Pena twice against Portland.

• Gardenhour scored seven minutes after entering at halftime at UC Irvine, starting the comeback in a 2-1 win, and Zachry equalized at San Francisco less than 10 minutes after coming on in the 32nd minute.

• Substitutes have also set up six goals: Jaxson Findlay and Matteo Salcedo against Liberty, Tony Ramirez at California Baptist, Samy Kanaan against San Diego State and Salcedo against Santa Clara and at UCLA, where he assisted Oliver Rhoades 2:21 after entering.

• Pena turned his two goals off the bench against Portland into three straight starts, at Pacific, against Santa Clara and at UCLA, and assisted the opening goal in the first two.

• Zachry has 13 substitute appearances, Findlay has 11, Gardenhour has 10 and Elijah Zelkind has nine.

• Twenty-four Toreros have played this season, and 21 have made at least one start. Fifteen played at UCLA.

EVER-PRESENT
• Lucca Adams has played all 1,350 minutes in goal, the only Torero on the field for every minute this season.

• Taj Eagleston has logged 1,323 minutes, missing only the final 21 against Portland and the closing minutes against Santa Clara, and Iain Wagner is next with 1,242.

• Devin Dillon (1,173), Steven Ramirez (1,107), Oliver Rhoades (1,016), Luca Fava (932) and Tobias Polz (886) give San Diego eight players with more than 800 minutes this season, six of them with more than 1,000.

• Kevin Pena and Elijah Zelkind have started each of the last three matches after making their first starts of 2026 at Pacific.

WHERE THE TOREROS STAND
• San Diego is unranked in this week's United Soccer Coaches Top 25 but received three votes. It is the Toreros' third straight week outside the poll after appearing in each of the first eight releases of the season.

• San Diego is also unranked in the Top Drawer Soccer Top 25.

• USD opened the season at No. 18 in the coaches poll and climbed to No. 2 on Aug. 25, the highest the program has ever appeared in that poll.

• The Toreros reached No. 1 in the Top Drawer Soccer Division I Top 25 on Aug. 24, the first time the program has held the top spot in a national poll.

• San Diego's previous best in either poll was No. 3, reached in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 on Nov. 5, 2024, at 12-1-2.

• Four 2026 opponents are in this week's coaches poll: No. 5 Kansas City, No. 7 Washington, No. 12 Portland and No. 22 UCLA. San Diego beat Washington 2-1 in the opener and lost to the other three. Stanford is receiving votes.

COACH QUINN AGAINST RANKED OPPONENTS
• Brian Quinn is 79-49-26 as San Diego's head coach. He is in his ninth season in the role and his 20th with the program.

• Since taking over in 2018, Quinn has faced ranked opponents 25 times and is 8-12-5 in those matches.

• No. 1 Washington remains both the highest-ranked opponent of the Quinn era and his highest-ranked win, ahead of a 2018 meeting with No. 2 Duke that the Toreros dropped.

• That list of wins also includes No. 6 Washington in 2023, No. 7 Portland in 2022, No. 10 Duke in 2024 and No. 10 Oregon State in 2025.

• Stanford was the 12th top-10 opponent of the Quinn era and the fourth top-three opponent since 2018.

• San Diego is 1-3-0 against ranked teams this season, with the win at No. 1 Washington and losses at Stanford, Kansas City and UCLA.

BEATING A NO. 1
• USD's Aug. 20 win at Washington was the fifth time in program history San Diego has beaten a No. 1-ranked opponent, and the first under Brian Quinn. The Huskies were the defending national champions.

• The previous one came against UCLA, a 1-0 win over the No. 1 Bruins on Sept. 26, 2014, at Torero Stadium in front of a program-record crowd of 4,432.

• Taj Eagleston opened the scoring in the 11th minute in Seattle, finishing an assist from Steven Ramirez whose own strike had been cleared off the goal line. Devin Dillon doubled the lead in the 53rd.

• Lucca Adams went the full 90 and made four saves against 16 Washington shots and 11 corner kicks. The result moved San Diego to 3-3-2 all time against the Huskies.

EAGLESTON, FAVA SWEEP WCC MEN'S SOCCER WEEKLY AWARDS (SEPT. 14)
• Taj Eagleston and Luca Fava swept the West Coast Conference men's soccer weekly honors on Sept. 14, with Eagleston named Offensive Player of the Week and Fava Defensive Player of the Week after 2-1 wins at UC Irvine and against San Diego State.

• Eagleston scored the game-winner in both matches, in the 55th minute at UC Irvine and the 34th against San Diego State, and played all 180 minutes while leading the Toreros with nine shots, four on target.

• Fava started both wins at wing-back and played 154 minutes, helping San Diego allow just two goals and four shots on target for the week.

• Fava finished the week with three shots, one on goal, and an assist. He took the corner that started the move on Iain Wagner's opener against San Diego State and supplied the cross for Eagleston's winner.

• Eagleston became the second Torero to earn WCC Offensive Player of the Week honors this season, following Steven Ramirez on Aug. 24.

RAMIREZ NAMED WCC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK (AUG. 24)
• Senior forward Steven Ramirez was named the WCC Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for Aug. 24, 2026.

• Ramirez had a hand in three of the Toreros' five goals during the 2-0-0 opening week, setting up the opener at Washington before scoring twice in 91 seconds against Liberty as San Diego rallied for a 3-1 win.

• The honor is the first conference weekly award of Ramirez's career and the first WCC Offensive Player of the Week award of the 2026 season. He is the first Torero recognized since Iain Wagner earned the same honor on Nov. 17, 2025.

• He has since added penalties at UC Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Pacific, the equalizer at LMU and a headed equalizer against Portland, and leads the Toreros with seven goals on 40 shots through 15 matches.

• The Garden Grove, Calif., native has drawn WCC postseason recognition in each of his first three seasons, landing on the All-WCC Freshman Team in 2023, honorable mention in 2024 and the second team in 2025.

THROUGH 15 MATCHES
• San Diego has scored 27 goals on 225 shots, 82 of them on target, and has outshot its opponents 225-162 overall and 82-51 on frame.

• The Toreros are averaging 1.80 goals per match and have allowed exactly one goal in 10 of their 15 matches. The exceptions are shutouts of Denver and Pacific, the 2-2 draw at San Francisco, the 5-4 loss to Portland and the 3-1 loss at UCLA.

• Seventeen of San Diego's 27 goals have come after halftime, including Oliver Rhoades' 67th-minute goal at UCLA.

• Steven Ramirez leads the team with seven goals and 16 points, and Taj Eagleston has five goals and 12 points. The two have combined for 12 of the Toreros' 27 goals.

• Eagleston has four of the team's eight game-winning goals and Devin Dillon has two. Dillon, Noah James, Kevin Pena, Oliver Rhoades and Iain Wagner have two goals apiece, and Luca Fava, Conner Gardenhour, Ethan McNaughton, Devin Zachry and Elijah Zelkind have one each, giving San Diego 12 different goal scorers.

• Matteo Salcedo leads the team with five assists, Wagner has four, Fava has three, and Mathias Bauer, Eagleston, Pena, Ramirez and Rhoades have two each. Thirteen players have recorded the 27 Torero assists.

• Nineteen different Toreros have recorded at least one point in 2026, and 24 have seen action.

• Five Toreros have started all 15 matches: Lucca Adams, Eagleston, Ramirez, Rhoades and Wagner.

• San Diego is 3-for-3 on penalty kicks this season, all converted by Ramirez, and opponents are 2-for-2.

• Adams is 8-4-3 in goal with 31 saves and 20 goals allowed across 15 starts and 1,350 minutes, a .608 save percentage, a 1.33 goals-against average and two shutouts.

BY THE NUMBERS
• San Diego is 8-2-2 when it scores at least one goal and 0-2-1 when held off the board, with both losses coming by a 1-0 score.

• The Toreros are 8-1-1 when scoring at least twice and 3-1-0 when scoring three or more. Five of their eight wins have come by a 2-1 score.

• USD is 5-0-1 when scoring first and 3-4-1 when conceding first, with comeback wins against Liberty, at UC Irvine and at LMU.

• San Diego is 4-0-1 when leading at halftime, 2-2-0 when trailing at the break and 2-2-2 when level.

• Eleven of the 15 matches have been decided by one goal or ended level, and San Diego is 5-3-0 in one-goal games. The exceptions are the 3-1 wins over Liberty and Santa Clara, the 3-0 win at Pacific and the 3-1 loss at UCLA.

• The Toreros are 5-3-2 on the road and 3-1-1 at Torero Stadium in 2026.

• San Diego is 3-1-2 in WCC play and finished 5-3-1 against non-conference opponents.

• San Diego is 6-2-2 against California opponents this season.

• The Toreros went 1-2-0 against Power Four opponents in non-conference play, beating Washington of the Big Ten and losing at Stanford of the ACC and at UCLA of the Big Ten.

KEEPING OPPONENTS OFF TARGET
• San Diego has allowed 51 shots on goal in 15 matches, 3.4 per match, while putting 82 on frame at the other end.

• Nine of 15 opponents have managed two or fewer shots on target. Denver is still the only opponent to finish without one.

• San Francisco put a season-high 10 shots on target against the Toreros on Oct. 3, Portland followed with eight and UCLA had seven Sunday. No other opponent has managed more than five.

• Opponents are shooting .123 for the season, with 20 goals on 162 attempts. Seven of the 20 goals San Diego has allowed have come in the first half.

• Seattle U put one of its eight shots on target in last season's meeting, a 3-0 San Diego win.

THE SECOND 45
• San Diego has outshot its opponents 136-96 after halftime in 2026 and outscored them 17-13, after holding a 10-7 goal edge in first halves.

• Six of San Diego's eight game-winning goals have been scored after halftime, including Devin Dillon's 80th-minute header against Santa Clara. The exceptions are Eagleston's 34th-minute winner against San Diego State and his 14th-minute opener at Pacific.

• Fifty-three of USD's 90 corner kicks this season have come after the break, including eight of its 13 against Santa Clara.

• Opposing goalkeepers have made 31 of their 55 saves against San Diego in second halves.

GOALS BY THE CLOCK

Goals by minute of the match, through 15 matches.

• The first 15 minutes after halftime have been San Diego's most productive stretch. Seven of its 27 goals have come between the 46th and 60th minutes, including Ethan McNaughton's 56th-minute opener against Santa Clara.

• Thirteen of the Toreros' 27 goals have come between the 46th and 75th minutes, including Oliver Rhoades' 67th-minute goal at UCLA.

• San Diego has scored in the opening 15 minutes five times: Taj Eagleston's 11th-minute opener at Washington, Steven Ramirez's 12th-minute penalty at UC Santa Barbara, Noah James' 14th-minute goal at California Baptist, Oliver Rhoades' eighth-minute equalizer against Portland and Eagleston's 14th-minute opener at Pacific.

• Opponents have scored 10 of their 20 goals after the 60th minute, including four after the 75th: Stanford's 89th-minute winner, UC Santa Barbara's 78th-minute equalizer and 90th-minute goals by San Diego State and Santa Clara.

• San Diego has scored four goals after the 75th minute: Taj Eagleston's 79th-minute winner at LMU, Iain Wagner's 88th-minute goal at Pacific, and Devin Dillon's and Elijah Zelkind's goals 95 seconds apart in the 80th and 81st minutes against Santa Clara.

STAFF PROMOTIONS
• San Diego announced Oct. 6 that Mike "Nico" Nicholson has been promoted to senior associate head coach and Frankie Sanfilippo to associate head coach.

• Nicholson is in his 22nd season with the program after joining the staff in 2005 under former head coach Seamus McFadden. He has helped the Toreros win six WCC titles and earn five NCAA Tournament berths.

• Sanfilippo, a San Diego native, is in his sixth season after joining the staff in 2021 from Albion FC and has been part of each of USD's four straight WCC titles and NCAA Tournament trips. He played at San Jose State before a 13-year professional career that included a 2012 NASL title with Tampa Bay.

RECAPPING LAST SEASON
Last season in 2025 — Brian Quinn's eighth season as USD men's soccer head coach — he led the Toreros to their fourth consecutive West Coast Conference championship, a feat no program in league history had ever accomplished. As San Diego works through 2026, it is chasing an unprecedented fifth straight WCC title. Here's what the Toreros accomplished along the way:

• Won their fourth straight WCC Championship — the first program in conference history to do so — with a 4-2 road win over No. 10 Oregon State to clinch the crown

• Finished the regular season 13-2-3 overall and 7-1-1 in WCC play, good for a No. 7 national ranking

• Earned the No. 9 overall seed and a first-round bye in the 2025 NCAA Tournament

• Posted nine shutouts on the season, including a stretch of five straight clean sheets in the middle of conference play

• Advanced to the postseason for the fourth consecutive year, falling 2-1 to Grand Canyon in the NCAA Tournament second round at Torero Stadium — one year after reaching the Sweet Sixteen with wins over UC Davis and Duke

• Head coach Brian Quinn was named WCC Coach of the Year, with Lucca Adams (Goalkeeper of the Year) and Ethan Warne (Defensive Player of the Year) headlining nine total All-WCC selections

ADAMS, JAMES AND WAGNER EARN WCC PRESEASON HONORS
• Three Toreros were named to the 2026 WCC Preseason Team and San Diego was picked to finish second in the 2026 WCC Preseason Coaches Poll.

• Goalkeeper Lucca Adams, midfielder Noah James and forward Iain Wagner comprised USD's preseason team honorees.

• Portland was tabbed as the league's preseason favorite, receiving six of the nine first-place votes and totaling 62 points. San Diego received two first-place votes and finished with 55 points, three ahead of third-place Denver, which received the final first-place vote and totaled 53 points.

STAR RETURNERS
#1 Lucca Adams | RS Sophomore | Goalkeeper | São Paulo, Brazil | California Connections Academy | UCLA
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 15 matches and played all 1,350 minutes in goal

• 8-4-3 with 31 saves against 20 goals allowed, a .608 save percentage and a 1.33 goals-against average

• Made four saves at UCLA, three of them after halftime

• Kept a clean sheet with one save in last season's 3-0 win over Seattle U

• Has conceded exactly one goal in 10 of the 15 matches, coming within 14 seconds of a clean sheet against San Diego State and five seconds against Santa Clara

• Made a career-high eight saves at San Francisco, five of them before halftime, doubling his previous best of four

• Has two clean sheets this season, against Denver and at Pacific, and 10 in his career

• Is 18-6-5 in 29 career starts

• Posted a program-record 0.58 goals-against average and eight shutouts in 2025, when he was named WCC Goalkeeper of the Year

#7 Oliver Rhoades | Senior | Midfielder | Huntington Beach, Calif. | California Connections Academy
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 15 matches and logged 1,016 minutes

• Scored San Diego's goal at UCLA in the 67th minute, finishing a Matteo Salcedo assist for his second goal of the season

• Has put 10 of his 19 shots on target this season

• Scored and assisted against Portland, equalizing in the eighth minute with a first-time left-footer off a rebound from 16 yards and combining with Lucien Wa Bwanda on the move that produced Kevin Pena's second goal

• The Portland goal was his first of 2026 and his first since 2024, when he scored three times and earned All-WCC honorable mention

• Has six points this season on two goals and two assists

• Recorded his first assist of 2026 at LMU, setting up Steven Ramirez's 23rd-minute equalizer

• Had three assists as a junior in 2025

• Made his collegiate debut at Championship Field in the 2023 season opener, a 2-1 San Diego win over Seattle U

#8 Taj Eagleston | Junior | Midfielder | Hermosa Beach, Calif. | California Connections Academy
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 15 matches and logged 1,323 minutes, second only to goalkeeper Lucca Adams

• Ranks second on the team with five goals and 12 points this season, third with 33 shots and tied for third with 10 shots on target

• Leads the Toreros with four game-winning goals this season, and all five of his goals have come in wins

• Has scored the winning goal in four of San Diego's last six victories: at UC Irvine (Sept. 8), against San Diego State (Sept. 13), at LMU (Sept. 30) and at Pacific (Oct. 17)

• Scored and assisted at Pacific for a season-high three points, opening the scoring in the 14th minute and setting up Iain Wagner's 88th-minute goal

• Has appeared on Top Drawer Soccer's weekly Player of the Year Leaderboard this season

• Named WCC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 14 after scoring the game-winner in 2-1 wins at UC Irvine and against San Diego State

• Opened the scoring in the 11th minute at Washington, finishing a Steven Ramirez assist for the first goal of his USD career

• Assisted Steven Ramirez's 79th-minute goal in last season's 3-0 win over Seattle U

#9 Steven Ramirez | Senior | Forward | Garden Grove, Calif. | Virtual Learning Academy
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 15 matches and logged 1,107 minutes

• Leads the Toreros with seven goals and 16 points this season, and ranks second with 40 shots and 13 on target

• Had a point in five straight matches before UCLA: goals at LMU, at San Francisco, against Portland and at Pacific, and an assist against Santa Clara

• Has 20 career goals: one as a freshman in 2023, four in 2024, eight in 2025 and seven this season

• Is 3-for-3 on penalty kicks this season, at UC Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Pacific

• Headed in the 51st-minute equalizer against Portland from the near side after Tobias Polz nodded a Matteo Salcedo free kick back across the goal mouth

• Scored twice in a span of 91 seconds against Liberty, in the 62nd and 64th minutes, putting San Diego ahead for good in a 3-1 comeback win

• Assisted Taj Eagleston's 11th-minute opener at Washington; his own strike a minute earlier was cleared off the goal line

• Named WCC Offensive Player of the Week on Aug. 24, the first conference weekly award of his career

• Scored twice in last season's 3-0 win over Seattle U, in the 79th and 86th minutes, both off Iain Wagner assists

#11 Devin Zachry | Junior | Forward | Mission Viejo, Calif. | Capistrano Valley | Fairfield
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in 13 matches, all off the bench, totaling 298 minutes

• Equalized in the 42nd minute at San Francisco for his first goal of 2026, less than 10 minutes after entering as a substitute, off assists from Iain Wagner and Luca Fava

• The goal was his fourth as a Torero; he had three goals and two assists as a sophomore in 2025, his first season at USD, scoring against UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and Seattle U

• Opened the scoring in the 37th minute of last season's 3-0 win over Seattle U, off a Josh Martinez assist

• Had three goals and five assists as a freshman at Fairfield in 2024, earning MAAC Rookie of the Week honors twice

#13 Iain Wagner | Junior | Forward | San Diego, Calif. | Saint Augustine
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 15 matches and logged 1,242 minutes

• Had a team-high four shots at UCLA, two on target

• Leads the Toreros with 41 shots and 14 on target, and ranks second with four assists and third with eight points

• Scored in the 88th minute at Pacific off a Taj Eagleston assist, 77 seconds after San Diego went down to 10 men

• Has 11 career goals, nine of them during a 22-point sophomore season in 2025

• Has assisted two of Steven Ramirez's seven goals this season: the 64th-minute insurance goal against Liberty, on a through ball behind the back line, and the 23rd-minute equalizer at LMU

• Scored his first goal of 2026 in the 17th minute against San Diego State, finishing left-footed from 25 yards off a recycled corner

• Assisted both of Steven Ramirez's goals in last season's 3-0 win over Seattle U

#18 Ethan McNaughton | Senior | Midfielder | Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif. | San Dieguito Academy
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in 11 matches with six starts, totaling 611 minutes

• Headed in Kevin Pena's left-sided corner at the near post in the 56th minute against Santa Clara for the first goal of his collegiate career, breaking a scoreless tie

• Has gone the full 90 in each of the last two matches, against Santa Clara and at UCLA

• Has put two of his three shots this season on target

• Made three appearances over his first three seasons before this fall

#21 Kevin Pena | Graduate | Midfielder | San Marcos, Calif. | San Marcos
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in seven matches with three starts, totaling 237 minutes

• Has started each of the last three matches and assisted the opening goal in the first two, delivering the corner Ethan McNaughton headed in against Santa Clara

• Scored twice in 38 minutes off the bench against Portland, the first multi-goal match of his career

• Struck a right-footed free kick from 25 yards into the upper-left corner in the 71st minute against Portland, then looped an 18-yard shot over the goalkeeper in the 73rd, 1:58 later

• Hit the crossbar in the 68th minute against Santa Clara

• Has six points this season and has scored on both of his shots on target

• Has four career goals and eight career assists: two goals and two assists as a freshman in 2022, four assists as a sophomore in 2023 and two goals and two assists this season

#22 Elijah Zelkind | Graduate | Defender | San Diego, Calif. | Torrey Pines | Missouri State
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in 12 matches with three starts, totaling 504 minutes

• Scored the first goal of his collegiate career in the 81st minute against Santa Clara, tapping in from 6 yards after a Steven Ramirez cross was miscleared

• Has started each of the last three matches, going the full 90 at Pacific and UCLA and playing 82 minutes against Santa Clara

• Has put four of his six shots this season on target, including a first-half effort at UCLA

• Did not appear in 2025, his first season at USD, while recovering from injury

#24 Luca Fava | Junior | Midfielder | Yorba Linda, Calif. | Pearson Academy
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 13 matches he has played and logged 932 minutes

• Has five points this season on a goal and three assists, and ranks fifth on the team with 18 shots

• Assisted Devin Zachry's 42nd-minute equalizer at San Francisco, his third assist of 2026

• Named WCC Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 14 after starting at wing-back in 2-1 wins at UC Irvine and against San Diego State

• Scored his first goal of 2026 in the 66th minute at California Baptist, the game-winner, 45 seconds after the Lancers went down to 10 men

#29 Devin Dillon | Junior | Defender | Draper, Utah | Corner Canyon
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in all 15 matches with 12 starts, logging 1,173 minutes

• Nodded a Matteo Salcedo corner into an empty net at the far post in the 80th minute against Santa Clara for the game-winner

• Both of his goals this season have been game-winners, second on the team behind Taj Eagleston's four

• Has gone the full 90 in each of the last seven matches: against Denver, at LMU, at San Francisco, against Portland, at Pacific, against Santa Clara and at UCLA

• Scored what proved to be the game-winner in the 53rd minute at Washington for the first goal of his Torero career

NEWCOMER TALENT
Sophomore midfielder Matteo Salcedo is in his first season with the Toreros and leads the team in assists:

#14 Matteo Salcedo | Sophomore | Midfielder | Dana Point, Calif. | Capistrano Valley Christian
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in 12 matches with six starts, totaling 640 minutes

• Set up Oliver Rhoades' 67th-minute goal at UCLA 2:21 after entering as a substitute

• Leads the team with five assists, against Liberty, San Diego State, Portland, Santa Clara and UCLA

• Set up Devin Dillon's 80th-minute winner against Santa Clara with a left-sided corner after coming on at halftime

• Delivered the free kick against Portland that Tobias Polz headed back across goal for Steven Ramirez's equalizer

• Put all three of his shots on target at Kansas City

TRANSFER TALENT
Head coach Brian Quinn added three transfers to the back line for the 2026 season, and two of them have started regularly:

#3 Lucien Wa Bwanda | Junior | Defender | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Nova College | Indiana Wesleyan | Cal State Fullerton
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has appeared in 11 of the 15 matches with nine starts, for a total of 672 minutes

• Recorded his first point as a Torero against Portland, crossing for Kevin Pena's 73rd-minute goal after a give-and-go with Oliver Rhoades on the right flank

• Has gone the full 90 six times: in his Torero debut at Washington, at Stanford, at California Baptist, against San Diego State, at San Francisco and against Portland

#6 Tobias Polz | Graduate | Defender | Graz, Austria | HAK Mattersburg | University of Derby
Through 15 Matches (2026)
• Has started all 10 matches he has played, at California Baptist, UC Irvine, Kansas City, LMU, San Francisco, Pacific and UCLA and against Denver, Portland and Santa Clara, for a total of 886 minutes

• Has gone the full 90 in each of his last nine appearances, including Sunday at UCLA

• Recorded his first point as a Torero against Portland, heading a Matteo Salcedo free kick back across the goal mouth for Steven Ramirez's 51st-minute equalizer

• Took three of his four shots this season at Kansas City, including an 85th-minute effort that came off the woodwork

FRESHMAN TALENT
Head coach Brian Quinn welcomed a freshman class of five to campus this fall. Two of them have appeared in seven matches apiece:

• #15 Issak Luna | Midfielder | Yuma, Ariz. — has appeared seven times, most recently for the final eight minutes against Santa Clara; played 24 minutes against Portland and forced a save with a 62nd-minute shot; made his first career start at California Baptist and logged 34 minutes in his collegiate debut at Washington

• #27 Tony Ramirez | Midfielder | Escondido, Calif. — eligible to return Saturday after serving a one-match suspension at UCLA for his red card against Santa Clara; has appeared seven times, with starts at UC Irvine and against San Diego State; sent in the cross that broke to Conner Gardenhour for the 53rd-minute equalizer at UC Irvine and assisted Noah James' opener at California Baptist for the first point of his career