It was the squad’s first game of the 2020 season, as the defending Patriot League champion Midshipmen hosted undefeated Pittsburgh for the first of a shortened three-game fall slate.
The occasion also marked the first non-football sporting event for the Naval Academy since March when the coronavirus pandemic began and wiped out the remainder of the spring sports season and most of the fall competition as well. In fact, it’s the first college Olympic sporting event in Maryland this fall.
The Brigade of Midshipmen was welcomed to Glenn Warner Soccer Facility to witness a Naval Academy sporting event for the first time this academic year and 426 students and staff took sat in the stands on the breezy, 57-degree afternoon.