{"id":166533,"date":"2025-09-24T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166533\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:14:07","slug":"minor-named-big-12-offensive-player-and-freshman-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166533\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Named Big 12 Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2013 Following her first career brace against Cincinnati, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/samira-minor\/9368\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9368\" target=\"_blank\">Samira Minor<\/a> was named Big 12 Conference Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMinor is the second Houston Soccer player to win a weekly award this season after graduate goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/lexi-gonzalez\/9375\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9375\" target=\"_blank\">Lexi Gonzalez<\/a> was tabbed Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week on Sept. 10.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Frisco, Texas, native recorded two goals in the Cougars&#8217; Big 12 Conference opener against Cincinnati. It was the first win in a Big 12 Conference opener for Houston since joining the league and the most goals scored in a single game in Big 12 play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe weekly honors are the first of Minor&#8217;s career and the first time in program history that a player earned multiple weekly awards in the same week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKansas&#8217; Caroline Castans was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week while Kansas State&#8217;s Maddie Sibbing was tabbed as the league&#8217;s Goalkeeper of the Week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSUPPORT YOUR COOGS<br \/>\nFans can make a direct impact on the success of Houston Soccer by <a href=\"https:\/\/app.uhcougars.com\/UH25PartnerWSA?utm_medium=email&amp;elq_cid=535077&amp;RSRC=Email&amp;RDAT=1389&amp;ehash=b7f491ff42331f557fe859ad04cd3438c083957d629518a46cce2a8f756df6de&amp;aid=16089&amp;pid=uh_email_eloqua&amp;rid=1389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">providing NIL opportunities<\/a> and by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougarpride.com\/membership-center\/giving-opportunities\/sport-specific-clubs\/cougar-reserves\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cougar Reserves<\/a> which provides financial support directly to Houston Soccer for needs beyond its operating budget.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSTAY CONNECTED<br \/>\nFans can receive updates by following <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/twitter.com\/UHCougarSoccer__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_Wl3hLLLA$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UHCougarSoccer<\/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter, and catch up with the latest news and notes on the team by clicking LIKE on the team&#8217;s Facebook page at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.facebook.com\/UHCougarSoccer\/__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_Wt9aginw$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UHCougarSoccer<\/a> or on the team&#8217;s Instagram page at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.instagram.com\/uhcougarsoccer\/?hl=en__;!!LkSTlj0I!CwM_80hh9rt_CMLZVStOGAdyVaI7LML2TBBr3tbzLaxMDQiVvGfEZ7KDnwSuqW9-lKgzQIrPi03eUMbuuk7Lb4CHhdYH1_XIoewyhw$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@uhcougarsoccer<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2212 UHCougars.com \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2013 Following her first career brace against Cincinnati, freshman Samira Minor was named Big 12 Conference Offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-166533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}