Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University women's soccer team is hitting the road in 2022.

Ten of its 16 regular-season contests will be played away from the friendly confines of Motamed Field -- including a five-game road trip to open the season.

In her eighth year at the helm, Head Coach Brooke DeRosa will lead the Panthers on three out-of-state trips over the course of the season's first three weeks this fall. Their 2022 campaign begins in earnest on Aug. 26, where Adelphi will open tournament play at Wilmington University in Wilmington, Del.

At 12 noon, the Panthers will face local foe Molloy University more than 100 miles away from Long Island, before dueling with the host Wildcats two days later on Aug. 28. Trips to New Jersey to face Georgian Court University (Aug. 31); Westchester County, to face Mercy College (Sept. 6); and Worcester, Mass. to face Assumption University (Sept. 10) will follow.

Assumption is Adelphi's first Northeast-10 Conference opponent of 2022, and the team's dozen league games will be played consecutively from that point on. Three days later, the Panthers will play their home opener, welcoming the University of New Haven for a 6 p.m. NE10 tilt.

The home opener will also be dedicated to Morgan's Message, a non-profit that advocates for student-athletes' mental health. It is one of four special games scheduled for the team this season.

On Sept. 17, Adelphi welcomes Saint Michael's College, in benefit of the DezyStrong Foundation. The game will be played in honor of Matthew "Dezy" DiStefano, a longtime friend and co-worker of Adelphi women's bowling coach Dennis Kearney at Sachem North High School, who passed away from Stage 4 kidney cancer in January of 2020.

Nearly a month later, on Oct. 12, Adelphi and Franklin Pierce will play in a game marked for breast cancer awareness.

Bidding to make the NE10 Tournament for the seventh time in DeRosa's eight seasons coached (the 2020 season was not played), the Brown and Gold's postseason fate will likely also be decided by how the club performs away from home. Three of Adelphi's last four games of the regular season will take the Panthers on the road. In the season's final two weeks, the Panthers will travel to Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., American International College in Springfield, Mass., and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., before hosting the College of Saint Rose for its Senior Night regular-season finale on Oct. 26.  

Adelphi was selected fourth, with one first-place vote, in the NE10 coaches' poll.