2017 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season

The 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season was the 29th season of women's varsity soccer in the conference.

2017 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August, 2017 – November, 2017
Number of teams	14
2018 NWSL College Draft
Top draft pick	Rebecca Quinn
Picked by	Washington Spirit, 3rd overall
Regular Season
Season champions	Duke
Runners-up	North Carolina
Top scorer	Deyna Castellanos, Florida State Seminoles[1]
Tournament
Champions	North Carolina
Runners-up	Duke
Finals MVP	Alessia Russo, North Carolina Tar Heels

2017 ACC women's soccer standings
	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
No. 3 Duke  ‍†‍‍^y	10	–	0	–	0		1.000			23	–	2	–	1		.904
#8 North Carolina ‡^y  ‍‍‍	8	–	0	–	2		.900			17	–	3	–	2		.818
No. 21 NC State  ‍‍‍^y	6	–	3	–	1		.650			15	–	5	–	2		.727
No. 9 Virginia  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	2	–	3		.650			13	–	7	–	4		.625
Wake Forest  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	3	–	2		.600			11	–	7	–	4		.591
No. 18 Notre Dame  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	3	–	2		.600			9	–	8	–	5		.523
No. 15 Florida State  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	4	–	1		.550			13	–	7	–	1		.643
Boston College  ‍‍‍	4	–	5	–	1		.450			10	–	9	–	1		.525
Clemson  ‍‍‍^y	3	–	4	–	3		.450			10	–	5	–	4		.632
Louisville  ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	2		.400			9	–	7	–	2		.556
Syracuse  ‍‍‍	2	–	6	–	1		.278			7	–	8	–	2		.471
Virginia Tech  ‍‍‍	1	–	5	–	3		.278			7	–	6	–	5		.528
Miami  ‍‍‍	1	–	9	–	0		.100			5	–	11	–	0		.313
Pittsburgh  ‍‍‍	0	–	9	–	1		.050			3	–	12	–	3		.250
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2017 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 7, 2017; Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Clemson Tigers the defending regular season champions. The Florida State Seminoles are the defending ACC Tournament Champions.

Changes from 2016

There were no coaching changes from 2016 to 2017.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Boston College Eagles	Newton Soccer Complex	2,500
Clemson Tigers	Riggs Field	6,500
Duke Blue Devils	Koskinen Stadium	7,000
Florida State Seminoles	Seminole Soccer Complex	1,600
Louisville Cardinals	Lynn Stadium	5,300
Miami Hurricanes	Cobb Stadium	500
NC State Wolfpack	Dail Soccer Stadium	3,000
North Carolina Tar Heels	Fetzer Field	5,025
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Alumni Stadium	2,500
Pittsburgh Panthers	Ambrose Urbanic Field	735
Syracuse Orange	SU Soccer Stadium	5,000
Virginia Cavaliers	Klöckner Stadium	8,000
Virginia Tech Hokies	Thompson Field	2,500
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	Spry Stadium	3,000

1. ^ Georgia Tech does not sponsor women's soccer

Personnel

Team	Head coach	Captain
Boston College Eagles	Alison Foley [2]	Allyson Swaby Lauren Berman [3]
Clemson Tigers	Eddie Radwanski [4]	None Announced
Duke Blue Devils	Robbie Church [5]	None Announced
Florida State Seminoles	Mark Krikorian [6]	Natalia Kuikka [7]
Louisville Cardinals	Karen Ferguson-Dayes [8]	None Announced
Miami Hurricanes	Mary-Frances Monroe [9]	Dejah Cason[10]
NC State Wolfpack	Tim Santoro [11]	None Announced
North Carolina Tar Heels	Anson Dorrance [12]	Annie Kingman Joanna Boyles Julia Ashley Megan Buckingham [13]
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	Theresa Romagnolo [14]	Monica Flores Ginny McGowan Sandra Yu [15]
Pittsburgh Panthers	Greg Miller [16]	Taylor Price Ashley Moreira Emma Pozzulo [17]
Syracuse Orange	Phil Wheddon [18]	Eva Gordon Alana O'Neill Courtney Brosnan [19]
Virginia Cavaiers	Steve Swanson [20]	Veronica Latsko Megan Reid Brianna Westrup
Virginia Tech Hokies	Charles Adair [21]	None Announced
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	Tony da Luz [22]	Maddie Huster [23]

Pre-season

Pre-season poll

The ACC women's soccer pre-season poll was determined by a vote of all 14 ACC women's soccer head coaches. The poll was voted on as teams began their pre-season training during the first week of August. The coaches also voted on a pre-season all-ACC team.[24]

Pre-season Coaches Poll

1. Florida State – 186 points (8 First-Place Votes)
2. North Carolina – 172 (2)
3. Duke – 170 (1)
4. Virginia – 160 (2)
5. Notre Dame – 145 (1)
6. Clemson – 120
7. NC State – 104
8. Virginia Tech – 91
9. Wake Forest – 72
10. Boston College – 71
11. Miami – 65
12. Louisville – 63
13. Syracuse – 33
14. Pittsburgh – 18

Pre-Season All-ACC Team

Position	Player	Class	School
Goalkeeper	Cassie Miller	Senior	Florida State
Defender	Sam Staab	Junior	Clemson
	Rebecca Quinn	Senior	Duke
	Natalia Kuikka	Junior	Florida State
Midfielder	Megan Connolly	Junior	Florida State
	Sandra Yu	Senior	Notre Dame
Forward	Deyna Castellanos	Sophomore	Florida State
	Jessie Scarpa	Junior	North Carolina
	Bridgette Andrzejewski	Sophomore	North Carolina
	Jennifer Westendorf	Sophomore	Notre Dame
	Veronica Latsko	Senior	Virginia

Hermann Trophy Watchlist

The ACC had 4 women named to the Hermann Trophy watchlist prior to the season.[25]

• Deyna Castellanos – Florida State
• Natalia Kuikka – Florida State
• Cassie Miller – Florida State
• Bridgette Andrzejewski – North Carolina

Regular season

United Soccer

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	Pre Aug. 4	Wk 1 Aug. 22	Wk 2 Aug. 29	Wk 3 Sept. 5	Wk 4 Sept. 11	Wk 5 Sept. 19	Wk 6 Sept. 26	Wk 7 Oct. 3	Wk 8 Oct. 10	Wk 9 Oct. 17	Wk 10 Oct. 24	Wk 11 Oct. 31	Wk 12 Nov. 7	Final Dec. 5
Boston College
Clemson	13	13	8	4	11	19	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Duke	12	12	13	11	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	2	3	3
Florida State	15	6	15	13	16	23	21	16	16	18	23	RV	RV	15
Louisville
Miami
North Carolina	6	4	9	6	10	8	5	5	5	5	4	4	2	8
NC State		25	20	RV	RV	24	RV	RV	RV		RV	24	21	21
Notre Dame	18	24	RV	RV	NR	RV	22	RV	RV	RV	24	RV	RV	18
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia	11	10	3	8	5	11	15	13	14	12	10	10	12	8
Virginia Tech			RV	RV	RV
Wake Forest			18	17	23	18	20	15	22	15	21	25	24	RV

Top Drawer Soccer

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	Pre Aug. 1	Wk 1 Aug. 17	Wk 2 Aug. 21	Wk 3 Aug. 28	Wk 4 Sept. 4	Wk 5 Sept. 11	Wk 6 Sept. 18	Wk 7 Sept. 25	Wk 8 Oct. 2	Wk 9 Oct. 9	Wk 10 Oct. 16	Wk 11 Oct. 23	Wk 12 Oct. 30	Wk 13 Nov. 6	Wk 14 Nov. 13	Wk 15 Nov. 20	Wk 16 Nov. 27	Final Dec. 4
Boston College
Clemson	21	21	18	12	11	12	20
Duke	5	5	9	9	6	3	3	4	4	4	4	2	2	5	5	3	3	3
Florida State	4	4	4	8	5	5	6	6	6	14	14	23			23	24	24	24
Louisville
Miami
North Carolina	9	9	8	13	12	14	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	2	2	11	11	11
NC State	22	22	21	18	23	22	21	RV					25	17	15	16	16	16
Notre Dame	14	14	15	15	20	RV	19	16	RV	RV		RV
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia	19	19	17	4	8	9	14	18	18	17	13	14	11	14	12	9	9	9
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest				23	17	18	18	RV	16	19	10	17	18	19	18	19	19	19

Statistics

Overall season statistics can be found on the ACC's website.

Players of the Week

Week	Offensive Player of the week	Defensive of the week
August 22, 2017[26]	Joanna Boyles, North Carolina	Katelyn McEachern, Pittsburgh
August 29, 2017[27]	Taylor Ziemer, Virginia	Laurel Ivory, Virginia
	Maddie Huster, Wake Forest
September 5, 2017[28]	Emina Ekic, Louisville	Julia Ashley, North Carolina
September 12, 2017[29]	Tziarra King, NC State	EJ Proctor, Duke
September 19, 2017[30]	Natalie Jacobs, Notre Dame	Sydney Wooten, NC State
September 26, 2017[31]	Dorian Bailey, North Carolina	Taylor Otto, North Carolina
October 3, 2017[32]	Veronica Latsko, Virginia	Mandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech
October 10, 2017[33]	Alessia Russo, North Carolina	Schuyler DeBree, Duke
		Julia Ashley (2), North Carolina
October 17, 2017[34]	Bayley Feist, Wake Forest	Sandy MacIver, Clemson
October 24, 2017[35]	Jennifer Westendorf, Notre Dame	Gabby Kouzelos, Louisville
October 31, 2017[36]	Tziarra King (2), NC State	Chelsea Burns, Duke

Postseason

ACC Tournament

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Duke	1
	4	Virginia	0
						1	Duke	0
						2	North Carolina	1
	2	North Carolina	1
	3	NC State	0

NCAA Tournament

The ACC had a total of 8 teams selected to the NCAA Tournament. This was the second most number of teams from any conference in the tournament, behind the SEC (9). All teams were selected to host a first round match, and two teams were selected as number one seeds.

Seed	Region	School	1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
1	Durham	Duke	W 1–0 vs. UNC Greensboro – (Durham, NC)	W 7–0 vs. Oklahoma State – (Durham, NC)	W 3–0 vs. Texas – (Durham, NC)	W 4–0 vs. Baylor – (Durham, NC)	T 0–0 ^L, 3–4 PKvs. UCLA – (Orlando, FL)
1	Chapel Hill	North Carolina	W 3–0 vs. High Point – (Cary, NC)	W 1–0 vs. Colorado – (Cary, NC)	L 1–2 (OT) vs.Princeton – (Cary, NC)
3	Chapel Hill	Virginia	W 2–0 vs. St. Francis – (Charlottesville, VA)	W 3–0 vs. Pepperdine – (Los Angeles, CA)	L 1–2 vs. UCLA – (Los Angeles, CA)
4	Stanford	Florida State	W 5–0 vs. Ole Miss – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 2–0 vs. Arizona – Stanford, CA)	L 0–1 vs. Stanford – Stanford, CA)
	Durham	Clemson	W 2–1 vs. Alabama – (Clemson, SC)	T 1–1 ^L, 5–6 PK vs. Texas – (Durham, NC)
	Chapel Hill	NC State	W 4–1 vs. Arkansas – (Raleigh, NC)	T 1–1 ^L, 4–5 PK vs. Princeton – (Cary, NC)
	Durham	Notre Dame	W 5–0 vs. IUPUI – (Notre Dame, IN)	T 2–2 ^W, 4–1 PK vs. Texas A&M – (College Station, TX)	L 2–3 (OT) vs. Baylor – (College Station, TX)
	Stanford	Wake Forest	T 0–0 ^W, 2–1 PK vs. Georgetown – (Winston-Salem, NC)	L 0–2 vs. Penn State – (Morgantown, WV)

Awards and Honors

United Soccer Coaches All-Americans

Six total players from the ACC were named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America teams. Two players were named to each the first, second and third team.[37]

First Team

• Imani Dorsey, Duke
• Rebecca Quinn, Duke

Second Team

• Deyna Castellanos, Florida State
• Alessia Russo, North Carolina

Third Team

• Schuyler DeBree, Duke
• Sandra Yu, Notre Dame

ACC Awards

[38]

2017 ACC Women's Soccer Individual Awards
Award	Recipient(s)
Offensive Player of the Year	Imani Dorsey – Duke
Coach of the Year	Robbie Church – Duke
Defensive Player of the Year	Schuyler DeBree – Duke
Midfielder of the Year	Rebecca Quinn – Duke
Freshman of the Year	Emina Ekic – Louisville Alessia Russo – North Carolina

2017 ACC Women's Soccer All-Conference Teams
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	All-Freshman Team
Imani Dorsey, Sr., F, Duke Rebecca Quinn, Sr., M, Duke Kayla McCoy, Jr., F, Duke Schuyler DeBree, Sr., D, Duke EJ Proctor, Sr., GK, Duke Deyna Castellanos, So., F, Florida State Natalia Kuikka, Jr., D, Florida State Alessia Russo, Fr., F, North Carolina Tziarra King, So., M, NC State Sandra Yu, GS, M, Notre Dame Veronica Latsko, Sr., F, Virginia	Sam Staab, Jr., D, Clemson Ella Stevens, So., F, Duke Taylor Racioppi, Jr., F, Duke Emina Ekic, Fr., M, Louisville Joanna Boyles, Sr., M, North Carolina Dorian Bailey, Jr., M, North Carolina Julia Ashley, Jr., D, North Carolina Natalie Jacobs, So., F, Notre Dame Megan Reid, Sr., D, Virginia Maddie Huster, Sr., M, Wake Forest Lindsay Preston, Sr., GK, Wake Forest	Samantha Coffey, Fr., M, Boston College Ashton Miller, Sr., M, Duke Gloriana Villalobos, Fr., M, Florida State Jennifer Westendorf, So., F, Notre Dame Ricci Walking, So., M, NC State Bridgett Andrzejewski, So., M, North Carolina Emily Fox, Fr., M, North Carolina Taylor Otto, R-Fr., D, North Carolina Courtney Brosnan, Sr., GK, Syracuse Taryn Torres, Fr., M, Virginia Phoebe McClernon, So., D, Virginia Bayley Feist, Jr., M, Wake Forest	Samantha Coffey, Fr., M, Boston College Mariana Speckmaier, Fr., F, Clemson Taylor Mitchell, Fr., D, Duke Gloriana Villalobos, Fr., M, Florida State Emina Ekic, Fr., M, Louisville Alessia Russo, Fr., F, North Carolina Emily Fox, Fr., M, North Carolina Lulu Guttenberger, Fr., D, NC State Sammi Fisher, Fr., M, Notre Dame Taryn Torres, Fr., M, Virginia Vicky Krug, Fr., D, Wake Forest

Draft picks

The ACC had 12 total players selected in the 2018 NWSL College Draft. There were 3 players selected in the first round, 1 player selected in the second round, 5 players selected in the third round, and 3 players selected in the fourth round. Duke lead the way with 6 players selected, Wake Forest and North Carolina had 2 players selected each, and Virginia and Notre Dame each had 1 player selected.

FW

Forward

MF

Midfielder

DF

Defender

GK

Goalkeeper

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position	School
Rebecca Quinn	Washington Spirit	1st	3	MF	Duke
Imani Dorsey	Sky Blue FC	1st	5	FW	Duke
Sandra Yu	Portland Thorns FC	1st	8	MF	Notre Dame
Schuyler DeBree	Washington Spirit	2nd	12	DF	Duke
Ashton Miller	Boston Breakers	3rd	22	MF	Duke
Megan Buckingham	Chicago Red Stars	3rd	24	MF	North Carolina
Allyson Haran	Seattle Reign FC	3rd	25	DF	Wake Forest
Maddie Huster	Washington Spirit	3rd	26	MF	Wake Forest
Veronica Latsko	Houston Dash	3rd	28	FW	Virginia
Abby Elinsky	Houston Dash	3rd	30	MF	North Carolina
Joanna Boyles	Boston Breakers	4th	32	MF	North Carolina
Emma Jane Proctor	Utah Royals FC	4th	34	GK	Duke
Morgan Reid	North Carolina Courage	4th	39	DF	Duke

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