2009 Women's College Soccer Thread

[dbackjon]

Since it seems there are a few fans out, and there is a men's thread, I will get this one going.

[dbackjon]

2009 Pre-Season Poll:
http://www.soccertimes.com/ncaa/top25/women.htm

Rank School 2008 Record Pts 2008 Rank
1 North Carolina (16) 25-1-2 400 1
2 Stanford 22-2-1 367 4
3 UCLA 22-1-2 363 3
4 Notre Dame 26-1-0 355 2
5 Portland 20-2-0 341 5
6 Florida State 17-3-3 315 6
7 Texas A&M 18-5-1 306 7
8 Virginia 15-5-3 253 12
9 Southern California 16-5-2 250 9
10 Florida 19-4-1 246 10
11 Duke 15-6-3 221 8
12 Boston College 15-6-2 217 11
13 Oklahoma State 18-1-4 160 13
14 West Virginia 14-3-6 151 17
15 Penn State 16-8-0 150 nr
16 (tie) Missouri 16-5-2 136 15
16 (tie) Texas 13-4-4 136 18
18 Minnesota 22-4-0 93 14
19 San Diego 15-5-2 92 19t
20 Brigham Young 18-5-1 86 22
21 (tie) Rutgers 13-7-2 77 16
21 (tie) Illinois 12-9-2 77 21
23 California 10-8-1 60 nr
24 Colorado 14-5-4 41 23
25 Louisiana State 14-4-2 39 nr

Others receiving votes: Washington 36, Wake Forest 34, James Madison 33, Michigan State 32, Georgia 27, Washington State 26, Santa Clara 23, Charlotte 9, Connecticut 6, Georgetown 6, Miami (Fla.) 5, Purdue 4, Dayton 2, Auburn 1.

[frinq]

No Big Sky in the ranknings. A weak conference - women don't play much soccer in the Rockies? A small recruiting base, and the Big Sky doesn't put much money into it. On the other hand, Oregon does play a lot of soccer. U. of Portland, with no football, is able to concentrate on basketball, volleyball and soccer and it shows. Women's soccer there is ranked No. 5. Portland is going to have an MLS team in 2011. Looks like PSU is going to try to capitalize on that and give Portland a run for their money. We beat OSU yesterday, which doesn't mean much - OSU's at the bottom of the Pac-10 - but still, looks promising. We'll se how they do against Boisse State today. We've got a lot of freshmen. Or freshwomen. Whatever.

[dbackjon]

Congrats on beating OSU - always good to beat any Pac 10 team.

The Pacific NW is turning into a soccer hotbed.

[slycat]

Texas State beat St. Marys 2-0 in their season/home opener.

[SuperHornet]

Cheap-shotting St. Mary's had better not be on the list. I had thought that distinction only applied to their football team, but I was wrong. St. Mary's thugs took out the UOP goalie AND applied a freaking drop toe hold against UOP last week, both with no foul calls. St. Mary's was getting away with murder, while UOP was getting not only ticky-tack fouls, but made up fouls. And this was SUPPOSED to be a freaking UOP home game.

Of course, forwards not closing the deal didn't help much. The UOP fullbacks were the real heroes of a game stolen by the zebras.

St. Mary's 1, UOP 0.

[CatMom]

TXST lost to UC Irvine (2-1) and UC Riverside (1-0 OT) last weekend. They play Samford and TN Tech this weekend in a tournament in Birmingham, AL

[andy7171]

I'm a fan of womens college soccer players. To the point I even married one!

[CatMom]

Texas State beat St. Marys 2-0 in their season/home opener.

St. Mary's beat UT tonight 2 -1

[andy7171]

Towson girls beat cross town rival UMBC, 1-0 over the weekend!