Tennessee soccer is in the top four of both major polls after a strong start to the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tennessee (4-0-0), who is off to its best start in the Joe Kirt era with four straight shutouts, sits second in the United Soccer Coaches Poll and fourth in TopDrawerSoccer.com’s rankings, as released Tuesday afternoon. It moved up four spots in the former and one in the latter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The United Soccer Coaches Poll ranking marks the highest in the program’s history and comes on the heels of a hot start that featured two top-five shutout wins, including a season-opening triumph over top-ranked UNC. Additionally, the Lady Vols have outscored opponents 15-0. In the USC Poll, the Big Orange received 192 total points, along with four first-place votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Redshirt junior Shae O’Rourke<\/a> has started the season on a high-note, logging five goals, three of which were game-winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n Defensively, the Lady Vols have logged four clean sheets, led by Ally Brown<\/a> on the backline and Cayden Norris<\/a> in goal who has posted a pair of five-save showings.\u00a0<\/p>\n UP NEXT: Tennessee will head to Western Carolina on Sunday, Aug. 31 for its fifth match of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee soccer is in the top four of both major polls after a strong start to the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-99219","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\/99219","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=99219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}