This Week in Spartan Athletics – August 19
8/19/2025 4:42:00 PM | General
Women's Soccer
After a pair of draws to start the 2025 season, MSU plays its second-straight home game on Thursday against NC State (7:30 p.m.). It will be Welcome Back Students Night at DeMartin Stadium and is part of a doubleheader with the men's soccer team playing the first game, against UC Riverside (5 p.m.). The game on Thursday is the second in a four-game homestand for the Spartans. The women's team returns to the pitch on Sunday against Milwaukee (1 p.m.). It will be Back to School Day and the program will host its Senior Day ceremony prior to kickoff.
Men's Soccer
Michigan State opens the 2025 season on Thursday against UC Riverside (5 p.m.) in the first game of a doubleheader at DeMartin Stadium, with MSU's women's team hosting NC State in the nightcap as part of Welcome Back Students Night at DeMartin Stadium. The Spartans played a pair of exhibition games, beating Butler, 2-1, at home and posting a 2-1 win at UIC in Chicago last week. The team will play its first road game of the season on Monday at No. 7 Pittsburgh (7 p.m.).
Field Hockey
The Spartans play their second of two exhibition games on Friday, with an afternoon contest against Michigan at Ralph Young Field (3 p.m.). MSU hosted Central Michigan last week and opens the regular season on Friday, Aug. 29 at Louisville.
Volleyball
First-year head coach Kristen Kelsay and the Spartans play their lone exhibition match at Eastern Michigan on Saturday (6 p.m.). A two-time captain and Academic All-American selection during her playing days at MSU (2010-13), Kelsay returned to her alma mater as the head coach last December following nine seasons as an assistant coach in the Big Ten.
Women's Golf
After following her players through much of the summer, Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll tees off in the U.S. Senior Women's Open at San Diego Country Club on Thursday, Aug. 21 at 11:32 a.m. (ET). Slobodnik-Stoll advanced to the U.S. Senior Women's Open for the first time after a qualifier in late July. She is just one of two active Division I head coaches playing this week. Live scoring for the U.S. Senior Women's Open can be followed here.
After a pair of draws to start the 2025 season, MSU plays its second-straight home game on Thursday against NC State (7:30 p.m.). It will be Welcome Back Students Night at DeMartin Stadium and is part of a doubleheader with the men's soccer team playing the first game, against UC Riverside (5 p.m.). The game on Thursday is the second in a four-game homestand for the Spartans. The women's team returns to the pitch on Sunday against Milwaukee (1 p.m.). It will be Back to School Day and the program will host its Senior Day ceremony prior to kickoff.
Men's Soccer
Michigan State opens the 2025 season on Thursday against UC Riverside (5 p.m.) in the first game of a doubleheader at DeMartin Stadium, with MSU's women's team hosting NC State in the nightcap as part of Welcome Back Students Night at DeMartin Stadium. The Spartans played a pair of exhibition games, beating Butler, 2-1, at home and posting a 2-1 win at UIC in Chicago last week. The team will play its first road game of the season on Monday at No. 7 Pittsburgh (7 p.m.).
Field Hockey
The Spartans play their second of two exhibition games on Friday, with an afternoon contest against Michigan at Ralph Young Field (3 p.m.). MSU hosted Central Michigan last week and opens the regular season on Friday, Aug. 29 at Louisville.
Volleyball
First-year head coach Kristen Kelsay and the Spartans play their lone exhibition match at Eastern Michigan on Saturday (6 p.m.). A two-time captain and Academic All-American selection during her playing days at MSU (2010-13), Kelsay returned to her alma mater as the head coach last December following nine seasons as an assistant coach in the Big Ten.
Women's Golf
After following her players through much of the summer, Head Coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll tees off in the U.S. Senior Women's Open at San Diego Country Club on Thursday, Aug. 21 at 11:32 a.m. (ET). Slobodnik-Stoll advanced to the U.S. Senior Women's Open for the first time after a qualifier in late July. She is just one of two active Division I head coaches playing this week. Live scoring for the U.S. Senior Women's Open can be followed here.
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