Head Coach Jodie Smith and the Alabama State soccer team released its 2013 schedule Friday morning.
 
The 2013 opponents will feature a total of 19 contests, with ten of those matches being played at ASU's Soccer Stadium, and the other nine on the road.
 
“The schedule this season will definitely bring about a lot of good challenges for us,” head coach Jodie Smith said. “We have a good mixture of conference and non-conference games; especially with our SWAC schedule having to go play our conference and in-state rival Alabama A&M in the final regular season matchup.”
 
“Our out-of-conference schedule will have a mix of in-state and out-of-state teams, including teams from the Sun Belt Conference, Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference, Atlantic Sun, Southern Conference, Big South Conference, and the Ohio Valley Conference, so I think that we have a good slate for this season. Playing these games are going to set us up for a very strong but challenging season.”

Smith has eleven letter winners, including nine starters, returning from last season's squad which finished in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament.

ASU will open the season with a home game against Troy on Aug. 23, before hosting South Carolina State Sunday, Aug 25^th. August 30^th, ASU travels to Cookeville, Tenn. to face Tennessee Tech. The Lady Hornets will return home to compete against UT-Chattanooga to begin the month of September, before beginning a two-game road slate in Nashville, Tenn. at Lipscomb on the 6^th and at Belmont on the 8^th.   

The Lady Hornets will then return home to face UNC-Ashville on September 13^th and host Presbyterian College on the 15^th. ASU will hit the road for a match against Jacksonville State on the 20^th before returning home for a two-game home stand, beginning with USC-Beaufort on September 22^nd.

ASU will face Talladega College October 2^nd, before opening conference play on the road in Lorman, Miss. against Alcorn State on Oct. 4^th. The Lady Hornets will travel north to face Mississippi Valley State in Itta Bena, Miss. on Oct. 6^th, before returning home to host Southern on the 11^th and on the 13^th face Jackson State.

ASU will end its regular season slate on the road, facing Arkansas Pine-Bluff in Pine-Bluff, Ark. on Oct. 18^th, at Grambling State on the 20^th, and round out conference play at in-state rival Alabama A&M on the 25^th.
 
                                                                                               
 
 
 
                                                                                                -GO Hornets-