2020 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team

2020 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer
2020 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer
NCAA Tournament, Semifinals
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 4
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 3
Record	14–4–3 (5–2–1 ACC)
Head coach	Steve Swanson (21st season);
Assistant coaches	Ron Raab (15th season); Jaime Frias (2nd season);
Home stadium	Klöckner Stadium
	Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer team represented University of Virginia during the 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Cavaliers were led by head coach Steve Swanson, in his twentieth season. They played home games at Klöckner Stadium. This was the team's 35th season playing organized women's college soccer and their 33rd playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[1]

2020 ACC women's soccer standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
No. 2 Florida State ‍†‍‡‍^y	8	–	0	–	0	1.000	13	–	0	–	3	.906
No. 3 North Carolina ‍†‍‍^y	8	–	0	–	0	1.000	18	–	2	–	0	.900
No. 4 Virginia ‍‍‍^y	5	–	2	–	1	.688	14	–	4	–	3	.738
No. 6 Clemson ‍‍‍^y	5	–	3	–	0	.625	12	–	5	–	2	.684
No. 7 Duke ‍‍‍^y	4	–	2	–	2	.625	12	–	5	–	4	.667
Louisville ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	5	–	7	–	0	.417
Virginia Tech ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	8	–	9	–	0	.471
Notre Dame ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	6	–	7	–	0	.462
Wake Forest ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	1	.438	5	–	7	–	2	.429
Pittsburgh ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0	.375	11	–	5	–	0	.688
Boston College ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	0	.125	3	–	10	–	1	.250
Syracuse ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	0	.125	1	–	7	–	0	.125
Miami ‍‍‍	0	–	8	–	0	.000	1	–	11	–	1	.115
NC State ‍‍‍	0	–	0	–	0	–	5	–	3	–	1	.611


† – Conference champion ‡ – 2020 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of May 18, 2021 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC Note: † Due to COVID-19, NC State suspended the 2020 women's fall soccer season. They did participate in the spring season.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACC played a reduced schedule in 2020 and the NCAA Tournament was postponed to 2021.^[2]^[3]

The Cavaliers finished the fall season 8–3–1, 5–2–1 in ACC play to finish in third place. In the ACC Tournament they defeated Louisville in the Quarterfinals before losing to North Carolina in the Semifinals. The Cavaliers finished the spring season 2–1–1 and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. As an unseeded team, the Cavaliers defeated SIU Edwardsville in the First Round, BYU in the Second Round, Rice in the Third Round, and TCU in the Quarterfinals before losing to Florida State on penalties in the Semifinals.

Squad

Roster

Updated November 10, 2020^[4] 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	Sarah Clark
9	FW	MEX	Diana Ordóñez
10	MF	USA	Taryn Torres
11	MF	USA	Lacey McCormack
12	DF	HAI	Claire Constant
13	FW	USA	Rebecca Jarrett
14	MF	USA	Emma Dawson
15	FW	USA	Brianna Jablonowski


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	DF	USA	Laney Rouse
17	FW	USA	Jansen Eichenlaub
18	FW	USA	Sarah Brunner
19	DF	USA	Samar Guidry
20	DF	USA	Talia Staude
21	MF	USA	Lauren Hinton
22	FW	USA	Lia Godfrey
23	DF	USA	McKenna Angotti
24	DF	USA	Kira Maguire
25	FW	USA	Alissa Gorzak
26	MF	USA	Laughlin Ryan
27	MF	USA	Maggie Fralin
28	MF	USA	Peyton Goldthwaite
29	GK	USA	Cayla White
30	MF	USA	Alexis Theoret

Team management

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

Source:^[5]

Schedule

Source:^[6]^[7]

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Fall Regular Season
September 12, 2020* 6:00 p.m.		Virginia Tech	W 3–1	1–0–0 (0–0–0)	Klöckner Stadium (243) Charlottesville, VA
September 17, 2020 6:00 p.m., ACCN		at Duke	T 1–1 ^2OT	1–0–1 (0–0–1)	Koskinen Stadium (0) Durham, NC
September 20, 2020 3:00 p.m., ACCN		at Clemson	L 0–3	1–1–1 (0–1–1)	Riggs Field (549) Clemson, SC
September 25, 2020* 6:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 11	at Virginia Tech	W 1–0 ^OT	2–1–1 (0–1–1)	Thompson Field (122) Blackburg, VA
October 1, 2020 7:00 p.m., RSN	No. 10	No. 14 Pittsburgh	W 2–1 ^OT	3–1–1 (1–1–1)	Klöckner Stadium (138) Charlottesville, VA
October 4, 2020 3:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 10	Miami	W 3–0	4–1–1 (2–1–1)	Klöckner Stadium (163) Charlottesville, VA
October 8, 2020* 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 10	at No. 1 North Carolina	Canceled	4–1–1 (2–1–1)	Dorrance Field Chapel Hill, NC
October 15, 2020 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 11	No. 13 Louisville	W 2–0	5–1–1 (3–1–1)	Klöckner Stadium (161) Charlottesville, VA
October 18, 2020 3:30 p.m., ESPN2	No. 11	No. 2 Florida State	L 3–4	5–2–1 (3–2–1)	Klöckner Stadium (188) Charlottesville, VA
October 29, 2020 6:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 10	at Boston College	W 2–1	6–2–1 (4–2–1)	Newton Campus Soccer Field (0) Newton, MA
November 1, 2020 12:00 p.m., RSN	No. 10	at Syracuse	W 5–3	7–2–1 (5–2–1)	SU Soccer Stadium (1) Syracuse, NY
ACC Tournament
November 10, 2020* 8:00 p.m., ACCN	(3) No. 9	vs. (6) Louisville Quarterfinals	W 4–1	8–2–1 (5–2–1)	Sahlen's Stadium (217) Cary, NC
November 13, 2020 8:00 p.m., ACCN	(3) No. 9	vs. (2) No. 1 North Carolina Semifinals	L 0–2	8–3–1 (5–2–1)	Sahlen's Stadium (307) Cary, NC
Spring Exhibition
March 27, 2021* 4:00 p.m.		at North Carolina Courage		–	Sahlen's Stadium Cary, NC
Spring Regular Season
February 28, 2021* 2:00 p.m., ACCNX		George Mason	W 2–0	9–3–1	Klöckner Stadium (147) Charlottesville, VA
March 6, 2021* 4:00 p.m., ESPN+	No. 8	at VCU	W 2–1	10–3–1	Sports Backers Stadium (232) Richmond, VA
March 14, 2021* 5:00 p.m.	No. 9	at Old Dominion	Canceled		Old Dominion Soccer Complex Norfolk, VA
March 18, 2021* 7:00 p.m.	No. 9	at James Madison	Postponed		Sentara Park Harrisonburg, VA
March 25, 2021* 7:00 p.m.	No. 10	at James Madison	Postponed		Sentara Park Harrisonburg, VA
April 3, 2021* 4:00 p.m., ESPN+	No. 10	at No. 4 West Virginia	L 0–1	10–4–1	Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium (400) Morgantown, WV
April 10, 2021* 3:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 12	No. 5 West Virginia	T 1–1 ^2OT	10–4–2	Klöckner Stadium (463) Charlottesville, VA
NCAA Tournament
April 28, 2021* 7:00 p.m.	No. 13	vs. SIU Edwardsville First Round	W 3–1	11–4–2	WakeMed Soccer Park (145) Cary, NC
May 1, 2021* 3:00 p.m.	No. 13	vs. (12) No. 17 BYU Second Round	W 2–0	12–4–2	WakeMed Soccer Park (150) Cary, NC
May 5, 2021* 9:00 p.m., NCAA Livestream	No. 13	vs. No. 22 Rice Third Round	W 3–0	13–4–2	WakeMed Soccer Park (167) Cary, NC
May 9, 2021* 5:00 p.m., NCAA Livestream	No. 13	vs. (4) No. 4 TCU Quarterfinals	W 1–0	14–4–2	WakeMed Soccer Park (178) Cary, NC
May 13, 2021* 6:00 p.m., ESPN2	No. 13	vs. (1) No. 1 Florida State Semifinals	T 0–0 (0–3 PKs) ^2OT	14–4–3	WakeMed Soccer Park (2,166) Cary, NC
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

2021 NWSL College Draft

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position
Taryn Torres	Sky Blue FC	3	23	MF
Alissa Gorzak	Chicago Red Stars	4	35	FW

Source:^[8]

Rankings

Fall 2020

Ranking movement
**Legend:** ██ Improvement in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Others receiving votes.
Poll	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Final
United Soccer^[9]	11	10	10	11	10	10	10	9	9	10

Spring 2021

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	Final
United Soccer^[9]	None Released				8	9	9	10	10	12	12	13	None Released		4 (1)
TopDrawer Soccer ^[10]	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	3	6	5	5	4	3	3

References

^ 2020 Fact Book (PDF)
^ "ACC Women's Soccer 2020 Preview | College Soccer". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ "NCAA Division 1 Council Approves Moving 2020 Fall Championships to Spring 2021". SI.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ "Women's Soccer". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ "2020 Women's Soccer Coaching Staff". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ "Women's Soccer". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
^ "Virginia Announces Women's Soccer Spring Slate". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia Athletics. February 11, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
^ Yang, Stephanie (January 13, 2021). "All the picks from the 2021 NWSL College Draft". allforxi.com. Vox Media. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
^ ^a ^b "United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA DI Women — National". unitedsoccercoaches.org. United Soccer Coaches. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
^ "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

[1] 2020 Fact Book (PDF)

[2] "ACC Women's Soccer 2020 Preview | College Soccer". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

[3] "NCAA Division 1 Council Approves Moving 2020 Fall Championships to Spring 2021". SI.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

[4] "Women's Soccer". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

[5] "2020 Women's Soccer Coaching Staff". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

[6] "Women's Soccer". Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

[7] "Virginia Announces Women's Soccer Spring Slate". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia Athletics. February 11, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.

[8] Yang, Stephanie (January 13, 2021). "All the picks from the 2021 NWSL College Draft". allforxi.com. Vox Media. Retrieved January 26, 2021.

[US-9] "United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA DI Women — National". unitedsoccercoaches.org. United Soccer Coaches. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

[10] "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

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