This Week in Wake Forest Women’s Athletics – Presented by Truist (Oct. 27-Nov. 2)
10/28/2025 12:08:00 PM | Field Hockey, General, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truist, a longstanding partner of Wake Forest University who is An Official Banking Partner of Wake Forest Athletics and the Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women's Athletics brings Deacon Nation this weekly update from the Demon Deacons women's programs:
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of nine ACC schools to win 11 or more national championships. Additionally, with 1.7 million people within 30 miles of campus, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which ranks as ESPN's seventh-best nationally from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
- Field Hockey:
- The No. 6 Wake Forest field hockey team closes out the regular season on Friday, Nov. 1 at No. 4 Virginia.
- Having already clinched a share of the ACC Regular Season Title with their win at No. 8 Duke, the Demon Deacons are in search of their first outright title since the 2005 season.
- The team's current winning streak has reached 15-straight following the win at Duke on Friday before a 3-0 victory against App State this past Sunday.
- Women's Soccer:
- The Wake Forest women's soccer team remained unbeaten at home after a 2-1 victory over Pitt Thursday night at Spry Stadium.
- The Demon Deacons reached double-digit wins for the third-consecutive season.
- Following their victory over the Panthers, the Demon Deacons returned to Spry that Sunday and handed the No.1-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish their first dropped ACC points of the season on Sunday.
- Wake Forest finished the regular season with an 8-0-3 record at Spry this season.
- The Deacs have posted a stellar 26-3-9 record at home since the start of 2022, with their lone loss over the past three seasons coming against No. 1 Duke in 2024.
- Wake Forest finished the regular season with an 8-0-3 record at Spry this season.
- This tied the second-longest unbeaten home stretch in program history, set across the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
- The Deacs are set for its regular season finale on the road against No. 11 Florida State this Thursday, Oct. 30 at Seminole Sports Complex.
- The Wake Forest women's soccer team remained unbeaten at home after a 2-1 victory over Pitt Thursday night at Spry Stadium.
- Volleyball:
- Wake Forest returns to Varsity Arena to begin two-straight weeks of home action.
- The team will first face Cal on Friday for a 6:30 p.m. matchup. The contest will feature a Halloween theme, with post-match Trick or Treat and in-game costume contest for young fans.
- On Sunday, the Deacs are set to face No. 5 Stanford. First serve is scheduled for 1 p.m.
- Against ACC competition, a trio of Demon Deacons rank among the top-10 individual leaderboards:
- Patrycja Lagida – 3rd in service aces (0.44/set)
- Emma Farrell – 4th in digs (3.94/set)
- Sanaa Williams – 6th in hitting percentage (.389)
- Wake Forest returns to Varsity Arena to begin two-straight weeks of home action.
- Cross Country:
- The Demon Deacons are set to compete in the ACC Cross Country Championships this upcoming Friday, Oct. 31, at the E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky.
- The Deacs will compete in the 6k race at 9:30 a.m. and will be streamed live on ACC Network.
- Last season, the women's cross country team finished in ninth place, while both Angelina Perez and Brooke Wilson placed inside the top-20 to earn All-ACC honors.
- The Demon Deacons are set to compete in the ACC Cross Country Championships this upcoming Friday, Oct. 31, at the E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky.
- Women's Golf:
- The No. 5-ranked Wake Forest women's golf completed its fall schedule with a third-place finish at the Landfall Tradition last weekend.
- Two Demon Decacons secured top-20 finishes, while graduate student Morgan Ketchum recorded her third top-10 performance of the season at four under par, tying her low round of the season at 68.
- In just her second competition as a Demon Deacon, freshman Chutimon Rujiranan shot three under to earn her first individual collegiate title by two strokes at the UNCG Collegiate in Greensboro.
- The rookie made her debut for the Old Gold and Black as an individual at the Pirate Collegiate Classic in October. She carded a low round of 69 and shot two under to record her first career top-10 finish.
- The No. 5-ranked Wake Forest women's golf completed its fall schedule with a third-place finish at the Landfall Tradition last weekend.
- Women's Basketball:
- The Wake Forest women's basketball team is on the court for the first time on Monday, Nov. 3 when the Deacs play host to Radford for a 5:00 p.m. tipoff on Opening Night.
- It is the first of three contests at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum next week as the Demon Deacons also host Presbyterian (Thursday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m.) and Hampton (Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m.).
- Heading into the fourth season of the Megan Gebbia era, the Demon Deacons restocked the roster with an infusion of exciting young talent as well as veteran transfers, adding eight new players in total ahead of the 2025-26 season.
- On National Signing Day, Wake Forest inked a group of promising incoming players from around the world including two players from Australia.
- The roster also has key transfer additions who will look to make an immediate impact this season including all-conference selections in Raven Preston from Elon and Mary Carter from Cal Poly. Additionally, the Deacs also signed Colorado transfer forward Grace Oliver who was a four-star recruit by ESPNW (92 grade prospect) and was the No. 84 ranked player in the country in 2023.
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About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 59 conference titles and are one of nine ACC schools to win 11 or more national championships. Additionally, with 1.7 million people within 30 miles of campus, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which ranks as ESPN's seventh-best nationally from a viewership perspective.
Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.
Learn more about Wake Forest University at www.wfu.edu and at GoDeacs.com.
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