NEW ORLEANS – Monday saw the Sun Belt Conference release the coaches preseason poll with the Texas State soccer team coming in fifth.
The Bobcats are coming off a 12-5-2 season in which they finished tied for first in the West Division and fifth overall in head coach Steve Holeman's first season at the helm. Returning are 16 players from the squad led by junior midfielder Madi Goss, who, despite being a first-team all-conference selection and netting nine goals last season, was not chosen to the preseason All-Sun Belt squad.
James Madison and South Alabama tied atop the poll with 179 points apiece and five and three first-place votes, respectively.