DU faces the University of Vermont in the 2024 College Cup Semifinal at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. Opening kickoff is set for 5 p.m. ET/3 p.m. MT, and the game will be broadcast on ESPNU and ESPN+.  Here is everything you want to know about Vermont and the University of Vermont soccer:

America East Conference winner in 2024 with 7 total conference titles

Bridges that are covered are popular tourist attractions

Catamounts is their nickname

Drivers love Subaru, especially Foresters and Outbacks, as their favored car brand. Colorado is fifth on the state list.

Ejections were non-existent with 33 yellow cards and no red cards on the Cats.

Forward Yaniv Bazini and defender Zach Barrett were named  All-Conference first team.

Goals have come easy for the Catamounts with 45. They have allowed only 17.

Head Coach Rob Dow has an impressive 94-40 (.671) record. (And you thought we’d say Hippies!)

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is headquartered in Waterbury, Vermont.

Jackets are required with a 42-degree median temperature for the state.

Keeper Niklas Herceg has an excellent 0.63 Goals-Against Average in 9 games. UVM has the highest combined save percentage (.840) in the NCAA.

Losses to Western Michigan (3-1) and UMBC (2-1, OT) were their only L’s.

Maple syrup and dairy are their main agricultural businesses.

No McDonalds in Montpellier, the state capital, the only state capital with that distinction.

Only one Vermont native, Nash Barlow, is on Vermont’s squad.

People only outnumber cows 2-to-1.

Quacking from Mallards and Wood Ducks can be heard on Lake Champlain, known as the ‘lost Great Lake’.

Robert Frost, the famous poet, lived in & wrote about Vermont.

Sydney Wathuta (Calgary) leads Vermont with 14 assists.

Ties were plenty, five in all for UVM.

UMass-Amherst, the team Denver drubbed 3-0 in the NCAA Quarterfinals, tied the Catamounts 2-2 earlier this season.

Virtue Field is the home pitch for UVM.

Won-Loss % put Vermont third nationally (.795%) this season.

Xenoblast is a 2000 album by Jazz Mandolin Project, an acoustic Fusion group from Burlington, Vermont. (Yes, this is a reach but The Green Mountain State is woefully short on X’s and Z’s.) 

Yaniv Bazini leads UVM in goal-scoring with 13.

Zigzag sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda), an invasive species, has recently been confirmed for the first time in Vermont.