Division I Women's Soccer Championships Records Book
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DIVISION I WOMEN’S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK 2014 Championship 2 History 4 All-Time Results 12 Brackets 19 2014 CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS Florida State reverses fortunes of 2013 to win first College Cup: Voted the most outstanding player on offense in the 2013 College Cup, senior midfielder Jamia Fields was Florida State’s offense in the 2014 College Cup. Her game winner at 82:50 Sunday propelled the Seminoles to a 1-0 victory against Virginia and their first Division I women’s soccer championship. FSU, which entered Sunday’s national title game at Florida Atlantic University Stadium as the reigning runner-up, gutted out the lessons learned from last year’s painful 1-0 final loss to UCLA. Playing in their fourth consecutive College Cup and eighth overall, the Seminoles finally triumphed not only on Fields’ goal, but with the willingness to soldier up for another title try. “It’s a waste if we don’t learn things along way,” FSU head coach Mark Krikorian said. “What I’ve learned is it feels a whole lot better sitting here this year than last year.” Sunday’s match was the third meeting this season between the two Atlantic Coast Conference rivals. FSU won both prior games by 1-0 score and clinched the third off the left foot of the right-footed Fields, who took a pass from teammate Cheyna Williams and shot from outside the top of the box, beating Virginia goalkeeper Morgan Stearns inside the right post. “I just think at this level, in college, you should be able to use both feet,” said Fields, adding that her ambidexterity stems from her earliest days as a soccer tyke. The one offensive breakthrough by either team -- with only eights minutes remaining in regulation -- typified the toe-to-toe and body-to-body toughness of previous Virginia-FSU matches. As time wound down, each offensive opportunity was magnified, and Fields knew it. “I was just going for it,” she said of her shot. “Great finish by Jamia,” Virginia head coach Steve Swanson said. “It’s soccer. That’s the way it goes sometimes.” The Cavaliers -- playing in their first national final and also attempting to win their first Division I championship -- entered Sunday’s title game as the nation’s top scorers. They were stymied early and late against FSU, with many of both teams’ offensive forays fizzling at midfield. FSU recorded eight shots. Virginia took seven. “When they don’t score for 80-something minutes and you’re going in the last 10 minutes, it’s anybody’s game,” Virginia senior midfielder and three-time All- American Morgan Brian said. “Even their forwards are good defenders,” Swanson said of FSU. “I think they press a lot more maybe than in previous years and they do that quite well.” “I wouldn’t say it was our most attractive game,” Krikorian said. “But at the end of the day …” At the end of Sunday, the player he has nicknamed “Ms. November-December” came through. Eight of Fields’ career 14 goals came during the post-season, including all four of her goals this year — one against Notre Dame in an ACC tournament semifinal, two against South Carolina in an NCAA quarterfinal and Sunday’s game winner and national-title clincher. “I just try to play a game, and play and make my teammates better, and get crosses, and when I get a chance, put the ball in the goal,” Fields said. Her teammates apparently made everyone around them better well before they arrived in South Florida. The difference in the 2013 national runner-up Seminoles and the newly-crowned 2014 NCAA champions was a willingness to hew to a lunch-pail-type attitude. That mindset dated from January, and it marked the 2014 team as a special bunch. “They brought it every day,” Krikorian said. “They didn’t take days off, they didn’t take sessions off. Their attitude is ‘we’re going to get better every day’ and that was a little different.” FSU’s first title also is Krikorian’s first in Division I, but not his first NCAA title. He won two Division II titles in 1994 and 1995 at Franklin Pierce in New Hampshire, and reported exchanging good-luck texts with FSU head football coach Jimbo Fisher earlier Sunday. Krikorian used some of Fisher’s quotes in his pre-game message to his Seminoles. But he didn’t need advice to avoid Sunday’s celebratory post-game cooler dump. “The one thing I’ve learned is when they’re going to dump the bucket of water on you, get out of the way,” he said, joking. 2014 Championship 2 2014 RESULTS Stanford 1, Washington 0 QUARTERFINALS FIRST ROUND Virginia 2, UCLA 1 Florida St. 5, South Ala. 0 Texas A&M 2, Penn St. 1 Florida St. 5, South Carolina 0 Northeastern 2, Boston U. 0 Stanford* 2, Florida 2 (2OT) UCF 2, Georgia 1 Wisconsin 2, DePaul 0 SEMIFINALS South Carolina* 0, Clemson 0 (2 OT, PK) Virginia 3, Texas A&M 1 Seattle 2, Washington St. 1 (OT) Florida St. 2, Stanford 0 Colorado 2, BYU 0 North Carolina 2, South Dakota St. 0 CHAMPIONSHIP Florida 3, Mercer 0 Florida St. 1, Virginia 0 California 3, San Diego St. 2 (2OT) Auburn 1, FGCU 0 Texas Tech 8, Prairie View 0 Washington 1, Rider 0 Missouri 3, Kansas 1 Arkansas 3, Oklahoma 2 (OT) Stanford 5, Cal St. Fullerton 2 UCLA 5, San Diego 0 Harvard 6, Central Conn. St. 0 Illinois St. 3, South Fla. 2 Pepperdine *1, Southern California 1 (2OT) Kentucky *0, SIUE 0 (2OT) Arizona St. 4, Northern Ariz. 2 Rutgers 2, La Salle 0 Virginia 8, High Point 0 Penn St. 4, Buffalo 1 UConn 2, New Hampshire 0 Virginia Tech 4, Dayton 0 Georgetown*0, West Virginia 0 (2OT) Notre Dame 1, Valparaiso 0 Texas 3, Rice 0 Arizona 1, Oklahoma St. 0 Texas A&M 5, Houston Baptist 0 SECOND ROUND UCLA 7, Harvard 0 Pepperdine 4, Illinois St. 0 Kentucky 3, Arizona St. 1 Virginia 3, Rutgers 0 Penn St. 1, UConn 0 Virginia Tech 4, Georgetown 3 (OT) Notre Dame 2, Texas 1 Texas A&M 7, Arizona 2 Florida St. 3, Northeastern 0 UCF 3, Wisconsin 0 South Carolina * 0, Seattle 0 (2OT) North Carolina 1, Colorado 0 (OT) Florida 3, California 1 Texas Tech 2, Auburn 0 Washington 1, Missouri 0 (OT) Stanford 1, Arkansas 0 THIRD ROUND UCLA 1, Pepperdine 0 Virginia 7, Kentucky 0 Penn St. 2, Virginia Tech 0 Texas A&M 2, Notre Dame 1 Florida St. 1, UCF 0 South Carolina 1, North Carolina 0 Florida 3, Texas Tech 2 2014 Championship 3 HISTORY RESULTS Year Champion (Record) Coach Score Runner-Up Host or Site Championship Championship Game Total Attendance Attendance 1982 North Carolina (19-2) Anson Dorrance 2-0 UCF UCF 1,000 3,061 1983 North Carolina (19-1) Anson Dorrance 4-0 George Mason UCF 700 2,598 1984 North Carolina (24-0-1) Anson Dorrance 2-0 UConn North Carolina 3,500 6,408 1985 George Mason (18-2-1) Hank Leung 2-0 North Carolina George Mason 4,500 8,033 1986 North Carolina (24-0-1) Anson Dorrance 2-0 Colorado Col. George Mason 1,000 6,524 1987 North Carolina (23-0-1) Anson Dorrance 1-0 Massachusetts Massachusetts 3,651 10,482 1988 North Carolina (18-0-3) Anson Dorrance 4-1 North Carolina St. North Carolina 3,500 6,280 1989 North Carolina (24-0-1) Anson Dorrance 2-0 Colorado Col. North Carolina St. 1,625 8,112 1990 North Carolina (24-0) Anson Dorrance 6-0 UConn North Carolina 3,200 13,131 1991 North Carolina (25-0) Anson Dorrance 3-1 Wisconsin North Carolina 3,800 12,004 1992 North Carolina (25-0) Anson Dorrance 9-1 Duke North Carolina 3,573 13,893 1993 North Carolina (23-0) Anson Dorrance 6-0 George Mason North Carolina 5,721 17,419 1994 North Carolina (25-1-1) Anson Dorrance 5-0 Notre Dame Portland 5,000 28,251 1995 Notre Dame (21-2-2) Chris Petrucelli 1-0 (3 OT) Portland North Carolina 6,926 37,995 1996 North Carolina (25-1) Anson Dorrance 1-0 (2 OT) Notre Dame Santa Clara 8,800 53,322 1997 North Carolina (27-0-1) Anson Dorrance 2-0 UConn UNCG 9,460 40,572 1998 Florida (26-1) Becky Burleigh 1-0 North Carolina UNCG 10,583 45,997 1999 North Carolina (24-2) Anson Dorrance 2-0 Notre Dame San Jose St. 14,410 72,219 2000 North Carolina (21-3) Anson Dorrance 2-1 UCLA San Jose St. 9,566 53,051 2001 Santa Clara (23-2) Jerry Smith 1-0 North Carolina SMU 7,090 55,807 2002 Portland (20-4-2) Clive Charles 2-1 (2 OT) Santa Clara Austin, Texas 10,027 59,410 2003 North Carolina (27-0) Anson Dorrance 6-0 UConn Cary, N.C. 10,042 57,243 2004 *Notre Dame (25-1-1) Randy Waldrum 1-1 (2 OT, PK) UCLA Cary, N.C. 7,644 56,401 2005 Portland (23-0-2) Garrett Smith 4-0 UCLA Texas A&M 6,578 62,569 2006 North Carolina (27-1) Anson Dorrance 2-1 Notre Dame Cary, N.C. 8,349 68,298 2007 Southern California (20-3-2) Ali Khosroshahin 2-0 Florida St. Texas A&M 8,255 61,019 2008 North Carolina (25-1-2) Anson Dorrance 2-1 Notre Dame Cary, N.C.