Auburn soccer celebrates women’s history month

Auburn soccer celebrates women’s history monthAuburn soccer celebrates women’s history month

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn soccer celebrated Women's History Month during its exhibition matchup versus Georgia with alternate uniforms depicting the last names of trailblazing women throughout history.
 
Each player and staff member selected a woman that inspires them and donned her last name for the duration of the match.  
 
The team's selections are listed below.
 

Player/Staff MemberWoman CelebratedNotes
#0 Madeline MooreJane GoodallEarly primatology expert, anthropologist
#00 Maddie ProhaskaMuffet McGrawFormer women's college basketball coach
#3 Helene TyburczyMalala YousafzaiPakistani female education activist
#4 Anna HaddockNadia NadimProfessional soccer player/physician, Afghan refugee
#6 Becky ContrerasMarta Viera da SilvaProfessional soccer player
#7 Carly ThatcherBrandi ChastainOlympic medalist/former professional player
#8 Mallory MooneyAllyson FelixFormer track & field athlete/women's equality activist
#10 Sammie BrownToni MorrisonFirst black woman to win Nobel Prize in literature
#11 LJ KnoxCorrie ten BoomProvided safe harbor to Jews in WWII/public speaker
#12 Haley DucaDiana SpencerInternational activist
#13 Taylor RichardsSimone BilesOlympic medalist/mental health advocate
#14 Sydney RichardsMary McMillanMother of physical therapy
#15 Sydnie ThibodauxAly RaismanOlympic medalist/sexual assault spokesperson
#16 Dylan DriverPat SummittFormer women's college basketball coach
#17 Maddy BondonRosa ParksThe First Lady of Civil Rights
#18 Jaycie SilhanSydney McLaughlinOlympic medalist/Christian spokesperson
#19 Marissa AriasBecky Hammonprofessional basketball coach
#20 Hayden ColsonKim CrabbeFirst African American woman called up to USWNT
#23 Olivia CandelinoSerena WilliamsProfessional tennis player/women's equality activist
#27 Olivia FoutAmelia EarhartFirst woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean
#28 Erin HoustonKatherine JohnsonHuman calculator for NASA
#32 Maddie SimpsonMary Verdi-FletcherPhysically integrated dance pioneer
Karen HoppaCasey HaydenCivil rights activist
Ben MadsenDorothea DixMental health & research advocate
Nick FlohreFlorence Griffith-JoynerOlympic medalist
Amy ReifMarie CuriePhysicist & chemist, first woman to win Nobel Prize, first person to win Nobel Prize twice
Meagan HooshyarKaren HoppaCollege soccer pioneer, 25-year head coach at Auburn
Matt SmithBabe ZahariasFemale athletics pioneer
Tucker CleverdonShelly PoeSports information trailblazer, former president of CoSIDA
Joanna FossRuth Bader GinsburgFormer Supreme Court Justice/women's equality activist
Maddie WarnerMisty CopelandFirst female African American principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre
Xaymara Gonzalez AdamsSonia SotomayorFirst Latina Supreme Court Justice
Meagan RyanZabel YessayanAuthor, Armenian academic & political figure
Savannah StoughtonHenrietta LacksContributed cancer cells to medical research

 
In the matchup, Auburn defeated the Bulldogs 3-0. Carly Thatcher opened the scoring in the 36th minute followed by Dylan Driver in the 70th and Sydnie Thibodaux in the 77th.
 
The women of Auburn soccer return to exhibition action next weekend, facing off against Mercer, Saturday, April 1 at 1 p.m. CT. The matchup will the Tigers' final home game of the spring season.