2019 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team

The 2019 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team represented University of Virginia during the 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Cavaliers were led by head coach Steve Swanson, in his nineteenth season. They played home games at Klöckner Stadium. This was the team's 34th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 32nd playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference[1]

2019 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer
NCAA Tournament, Second Round
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 9
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 9
2019 record	17–2–3 (6–0–3 ACC)
Head coach	Steve Swanson (19th season)
Assistant coaches	Ron Raab (14th season) Jaime Frias (1st season)
Home stadium	Klöckner Stadium

2019 ACC women's soccer standings
	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
No. 2 North Carolina  ‍†‍‡‍^y	9	–	0	–	1		.950			24	–	1	–	2		.926
No. 7 Florida State  ‍‍‍^y	8	–	2	–	0		.800			18	–	6	–	0		.750
No. 9 Virginia  ‍‍‍^y	6	–	0	–	3		.833			17	–	2	–	3		.841
No. 25 Louisville  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	3	–	2		.600			13	–	5	–	2		.700
No. 17 NC State  ‍‍‍^y	4	–	2	–	4		.600			12	–	7	–	4		.609
No. 18 Duke  ‍‍‍^y	3	–	1	–	6		.600			9	–	4	–	7		.625
Clemson  ‍‍‍^y	5	–	5	–	0		.500			11	–	7	–	2		.600
Notre Dame  ‍‍‍^y	4	–	4	–	2		.500			11	–	8	–	2		.571
Virginia Tech  ‍‍‍^y	4	–	4	–	2		.500			12	–	5	–	2		.684
Pittsburgh  ‍‍‍	2	–	6	–	2		.300			5	–	10	–	3		.361
Miami  ‍‍‍	2	–	7	–	1		.250			5	–	9	–	2		.375
Wake Forest  ‍‍‍	1	–	6	–	3		.250			6	–	8	–	4		.444
Syracuse  ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	1		.167			3	–	11	–	2		.250
Boston College  ‍‍‍	1	–	8	–	1		.150			8	–	8	–	2		.500
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2019 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 10, 2019; Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC

The Cavaliers finished the season 17–2–3, 6–0–3 in ACC play to finish in third place. As the third seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Duke in the quarterfinals and Florida State in the semifinals. In the final, they ended up losing to North Carolina. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Radford before losing to Washington State in the Second Round.

Squad

Roster

Updated June 26, 2020[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Laurel Ivory 1 GK  USA Michaela Moran 2 MF  USA Sydney Zandi 3 FW  USA Ashlynn Serepca 4 FW  USA Cam Lexow 5 DF  USA Lizzy Sieracki 6 MF  USA Anna Sumpter 7 FW  USA Alexa Spaanstra 8 DF  USA Courtney Petersen 9 FW  USA Diana Ordonez 10 MF  USA Taryn Torres 11 DF  USA Zoe Morse 12 DF  USA Claire Constant

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 FW  USA Rebecca Jarrett 14 MF  USA Emma Dawson 16 DF  USA Phoebe McClernon 17 FW  USA Jansen Eichenlaub 20 DF  USA Talia Staude 21 MF  USA Lauren Hinton 22 FW  USA Meghan McCool 23 DF  USA McKenna Angotti 24 DF  USA Kira Maguire 25 FW  USA Alissa Gorzak 26 MF  USA Lacey McCormack 28 GK  USA Siena Sandridge 29 GK  USA Cayla White

Team management

Position	Staff
Athletic Director	Carla Williams
Head Coach	Steve Swanson
Associate Head Coach	Ron Raab
Assistant Coach	Jamie Frias
Director of Operations	Eilidh Thomson

Source:[3]

Schedule

Source:[4]

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Exhibition
August 15, 2019* 1:00 p.m.	No. 9	Illinois	W 2–0	–	Keystone Soccer Complex Maple City, MI
August 18, 2019* 5:00 p.m.	No. 9	Richmond United U14 Boys	W 3–0	–	Klöckner Stadium Charlottesville, VA
Non-Conference Regular Season
August 23, 2019* 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 9	UC Irvine	W 7–0	1–0–0	Klöckner Stadium Charlottesville, VA
August 25, 2019* 2:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 9	Liberty	W 6–0	2–0–0	Klöckner Stadium (1,326) Charlottesville, VA
August 30, 2019* 5:30 p.m., ACCNX	No. 6	East Carolina	W 4–0	3–0–0	Klöckner Stadium Charlottesville, VA
September 1, 2019* 2:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 6	No. 12 West Virginia	W 4–1	4–0–0	Klöckner Stadium (1,854) Charlottesville, VA
September 5, 2019* 7:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 5	No. 15 Georgetown	W 2–0	5–0–0	Klöckner Stadium Charlottesville, VA
September 8, 2019* 12:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 5	Minnesota	W 2–0	6–0–0	Klöckner Stadium (1,510) Charlottesville, VA
September 12, 2019* 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 4	William & Mary	W 8–1	7–0–0	Klöckner Stadium (1,234) Charlottesville, VA
September 15, 2019* 1:00 p.m., BTN Plus	No. 4	at No. 8 Penn State	W 2–1	8–0–0	Jeffrey Field (1,039) State College, PA
ACC Regular Season
September 20, 2019 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	at Wake Forest	T 1–1 ^2OT	8–0–1 (0–0–1)	Spry Stadium (1,011) Winston-Salem, NC
September 26, 2019 5:00 p.m., RSN	No. 1	No. 16 Virginia Tech	W 2–0	9–0–1 (1–0–1)	Klöckner Stadium (2,415) Charlottesville, VA
September 29, 2019 2:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	No. 10 Duke	T 0–0 ^2OT	9–0–2 (1–0–2)	Klöckner Stadium (2,048) Charlottesville, VA
October 4, 2019 8:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	at Miami (FL)	W 3–0	10–0–2 (2–0–2)	Cobb Stadium (700) Coral Gables, FL
October 10, 2019 7:00 p.m., RSN	No. 1	at NC State	T 0–0 ^2OT	10–0–3 (2–0–3)	Dail Soccer Field (674) Raleigh, NC
October 13, 2019 1:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	at No. 5 Florida State	W 1–0 ^2OT	11–0–3 (3–0–3)	Seminole Soccer Complex Tallahassee, FL
October 20, 2019 2:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	Notre Dame	W 3–0	12–0–3 (4–0–3)	Klöckner Stadium (1,500) Charlottesville, VA
October 24, 2019 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	No. 12 Louisville	W 3–0	13–0–3 (5–0–3)	Klöckner Stadium (1,968) Charlottesville, VA
October 27, 2019 1:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	Boston College	W 6–1	14–0–3 (6–0–3)	Klöckner Stadium (1,804) Charlottesville, VA
October 31, 2019 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	at Syracuse	Canceled[5]	14–0–3 (6–0–3)	SU Soccer Stadium Syracuse, NY
ACC Tournament
November 3, 2019 5:00 p.m., ACCN	(3) No. 1	(6) No. 9 Duke Quarterfinals	W 1–0	15–0–3	Klöckner Stadium Charlottesville, VA
November 8, 2019 2:30 p.m., ACCN	(3) No. 1	(2) No. 5 Florida State Semifinals	W 2–1 ^OT	16–0–3	Sahlen's Stadium (1,875) Cary, NC
November 10, 2019 12:00 p.m., ESPNU	(3) No. 1	(1) No. 3 North Carolina Final	L 1–2 ^2OT	16–1–3	Sahlen's Stadium (2,492) Cary, NC
NCAA Tournament
November 16, 2019 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 3	Radford First Round	W 3–0	17–1–3	Klöckner Stadium (894) Charlottesville, VA
November , 2019 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 3	Washington State Second Round	L 2–3	17–2–3	Klöckner Stadium (960) Charlottesville, VA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

2020 NWSL College Draft

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position
Courtney Petersen	Orlando Pride	1	7	DF
Phoebe McClernon	Orlando Pride	2	14	DF
Zoe Morse	Chicago Red Stars	3	19	MF

Source:[6]

Rankings

Ranking movement
Legend: ██ Improvement in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Others receiving votes.

Poll	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
United Soccer[7]	9	6	5	4	1 (21)	1 (28)	1 (22)	1 (22)	1 (19)	1 (24)	1 (26)	1 (27)	3	None Released				9
TopDrawer Soccer [8]	5	5	5	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	9	9	9

References

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2. "2019 Women's Soccer Roster". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
3. "2019 Women's Soccer Coaching Staff". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
4. "2019 Women's Soccer Schedule". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
5. "No. 1 Virginia's Match At Syracuse Cancelled Due To Inclement Weather". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia Athletics. October 31, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
6. "Three Virginia Players Taken In NWSL Draft". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia Athletics. January 16, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
7. "United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA DI Women — National". unitedsoccercoaches.org. United Soccer Coaches. December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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