Georgia women's soccer team breaks NCAA attendance record with crowd of 25,433

Georgia women’s soccer set an NCAA attendance benchmark on Thursday night, drawing 25,433 fans to Sanford Stadium for a 6-0 win over James Madison. The mark broke the previous NCAA record for either men’s or women’s soccer, surpassing the women’s standard of 14,410 from the 1999 championship in San Jose, California, between North Carolina and Notre Dame. Georgia’s win was played in “Soccer in Sanford,” an event honoring the 30th anniversary of the United States women’s gold-medal run at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Honoka Hamano scored twice for Georgia, while the overall prior record was 22,512 for a 1980 men’s match at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.