2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season

The 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season was the 31st season of women's varsity soccer in the conference.

2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Soccer
Duration	August 2019 – December 2019
Number of teams	14
2020 NWSL College Draft
Top draft pick	Courtney Peterson
Picked by	Orlando Pride, 7th overall
Regular season
Season champions	North Carolina
Runners-up	Florida State
Season MVP	Offensive: Deyna Castellanos Midfielder: Deyna Castellanos Defensive: Malia Berkely
Top scorer	Meghan McCool – Virginia^[1]
Tournament
Champions	North Carolina
Runners-up	Virginia
Finals MVP	Alessia Russo – North Carolina
ACC women's soccer seasons
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2019 ACC women's soccer standings

v t e	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 North Carolina Tar Heels were the defending regular season champions. The Florida State Seminoles were the defending ACC tournament champions.

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 Field	3,000
North Carolina Tar Heels	Dorrance 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

Coaches

Coaching changes

Pre-Season

• Boston College's coach Allison Foley resigned on December 12, 2018, citing the desire to pursue other opportunities.^[2] Jason Lowe was named as her replacement on January 9, 2019.^[3]
• Syracuse coach Phil Wheddon resigned on October 26, 2018, citing the desire to pursue other opportunities.^[4] Nicky Adams was hired as his replacement on February 25, 2019.^[5]

Head Coaching Records

Team	Head coach	Years at school	Overall record	Record at school	ACC record
Boston College	Jason Lowe	1	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0
Clemson	Eddie Radwanski	9	221–119–34	82–54–21	34–41–8
Duke	Robbie Church	19	322–171–59	235–122–48	90–58–25
Florida State	Mark Krikorian	15	258–60–30	258–60–30	95–30–18
Louisville	Karen Ferguson-Dayes	19	169–156–35	169–156–35	18–24–8
Miami	Sarah Barnes	2	66–50–17	6–9–3	3–6–1
North Carolina	Anson Dorrance	41	809–67–36	809–67–36	191–26–9
NC State	Tim Santoro	7	50–63–10	50–63–10	15–44–4
Notre Dame	Nate Norman	2	66–45–14	8–10–0	4–6–0
Pittsburgh	Randy Waldrum	2	403–120–30	4–12–1	7–15–1
Syracuse	Nicky Adams	1	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0
Virginia	Steve Swanson	19	402–155–56	298–92–45	119–44–17
Virginia Tech	Charles Adair	9	106–48–18	106–48–18	37–35–11
Wake Forest	Tony da Luz	22	302–206–46	257-165-44	86–96–19

Notes

• Records shown are prior to the 2019 season
• Years at school includes the 2019 season

Pre-season

Hermann Trophy Watchlist

The ACC had 12 players named to the MAC Hermann Trophy preseason watch list.^[6][7]

Player	Class	Position	School
Malia Berkely	Junior	MF	Florida State
Deyna Castellanos	Senior	FW	Florida State
Emina Ekic	Junior	MF	Louisville
Jaelin Howell	Sophomore	MF	Florida State
Laurel Ivory	Junior	GK	Virginia
Sandy MacIver	Senior	GK	Clemson
Phoebe McClernon	Senior	DF	Virginia
Taylor Otto	Junior	FW	North Carolina
Brianna Pinto	Sophomore	MF	North Carolina
Alessia Russo	Junior	FW	North Carolina
Alexa Spaanstra	Sophomore	FW	Virginia
Yujie Zhao	Sophomore	MF	Florida State

Pre-season poll

The 2019 ACC Preseason Poll was announced on August 8, 2019. The defending regular season champions, North Carolina were voted to repeat their regular season crown. Florida State was voted in second place, even though they received two more first place votes than North Carolina. The league's 14 head coaches also voted on a preseason All-ACC team.^[8] Full results for the coaches poll and preseason team are shown below.

Pre-season coaches poll

Predicted finish	Team	Points (1st place)
1	North Carolina	188 (6)
2	Florida State	185 (8)
3	Virginia	163
4	Duke	155
5	Clemson	121
6	NC State	109
7	Wake Forest	106
8	Louisville	99
9	Notre Dame	88
10	Boston College	87
11	Virginia Tech	85
12	Miami	39
13	Pittsburgh	29
14	Syracuse	16

Source:^[8]

Pre-season All-ACC Team

Position	Player	Class	School
Goalkeeper	Mandy McGlynn	Senior	Florida State
Defender	Malia Berkely	Junior	Florida State
	Emily Fox	Junior	North Carolina
Midfielder	Jaelin Howell	Sophomore	Florida State
	Yujie Zhao	Sophomore	Florida State
	Emina Ekic	Junior	Louisville
	Brianna Pinto	Sophomore	North Carolina
Forward	Mariana Speckmaier	Junior	Clemson
	Deyna Castellanos	Senior	Florida State
	Tziarra King	Senior	NC State
	Alessia Russo	Junior	North Carolina

Source:^[8]

Regular season

Conference matrix

The table below shows head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team plays 10 matches. Each team does not play every other team.

	Boston College	Clemson	Duke	Florida State	Louisville	Miami	North Carolina	NC State	Notre Dame	Pittsburgh	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	Wake Forest
vs. Boston College	–	2–1	–	5–4	2–1	0–4	3–0	2–0	–	2–1	–	6–1	2–1	3–3 (2OT)
vs. Clemson	1–2	–	4–1	2–1	1–0	3–2 (2OT)	1–0	–	0–1	2–3 (OT)	1–4	–	1–3	–
vs. Duke	–	1–4	–	1–0	1–1 (2OT)	–	0–0 (2OT)	1–1 (2OT)	1–1 (2OT)	–	1–4	0–0 (2OT)	0–0 (2OT)	2–3
vs. Florida State	4–5	1–2	0–1	–	–	0–3	2–0	–	–	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–2
vs. Louisville	1–2	0–1	1–1 (2OT)	–	–	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–0 (2OT)	–	0–3	3–0	–	1–2
vs. Miami	4–0	2–3 (2OT)	–	3–0	1–0	–	2–3	–	3–0	3–3 (2OT)	1–2	3–0	2–0	–
vs. North Carolina	0–3	0–1	0–0 (2OT)	0–2	0–3	3–2	–	0–1	0–3	1–3	–	–	0–2	–
vs. NC State	0–2	–	1–1 (2OT)	–	0–1	–	1–0	–	0–3	2–1	2–3 (OT)	0–0 (2OT)	1–1 (2OT)	1–1 (2OT)
vs. Notre Dame	–	1–0	1–1 (2OT)	–	0–0 (2OT)	0–3	3–0	3–0	–	0–4	0–3	3–0	–	2–3 (2OT)
vs. Pittsburgh	1–2	3–2 (OT)	–	1–0	–	3–3 (2OT)	3–1	1–2	4–0	–	1–1 (2OT)	–	1–0	3–2 (2OT)
vs. Syracuse	–	4–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	–	3–2 (OT)	3–0	1–1 (2OT)	–	–	–	1–2
vs. Virginia	1–6	–	0–0 (2OT)	0–1	0–3	0–3	–	0–0 (2OT)	0–3	–	–	–	0–2	1–1 (2OT)
vs. Virginia Tech	1–2	3–1	0–0 (2OT)	3–2	–	0–2	2–0	1–1 (2OT)	–	0–1	–	2–0	–	0–1
vs. Wake Forest	3–3 (2OT)	–	3–2	2–1	2–1	–	–	1–1 (2OT)	3–2 (2OT)	2–3 (2OT)	2–1	1–1 (2OT)	1–0	–
Total	1–8–1	5–5–0	3–1–6	8–2–0	5–3–2	2–7–1	9–0–1	4–2–4	4–4–2	2–6–2	1–7–1	6–0–3	4–4–2	1–6–3

Rankings

United Soccer

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

Main article: 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings

	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	Final
Boston College	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Clemson	RV	RV	19	20	10	9	8	9	17	15	22	25	RV	RV
Duke	8	10	12	11	8	10	10	11	9	9	9	12	12	18
Florida State	1 (33)	1 (26)	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	6	7
Louisville	RV	RV	RV	RV	20	22	19	16	14	12	14	22	23	25
Miami
North Carolina	2	2	1 (24)	1 (29)	4	4	3 (2)	3 (3)	3 (1)	3	3	3	2 (8)	2 (1)
NC State	21	17	14	RV				RV	RV	RV	RV	23	RV	17
Notre Dame		RV	RV	RV
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia	9	6	5	4	1 (21)	1 (28)	1 (22)	1 (22)	1 (19)	1 (24)	1 (26)	1 (27)	3	9
Virginia Tech	25	RV	23	16	18	16	23	20	RV	25	RV	RV	RV
Wake Forest	23	RV	25	RV		RV	RV

Top Drawer Soccer

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

	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
Boston College				21	18	19	23	RV
Clemson	RV	RV	RV	22	RV	23	20	20	17	18	16	20	19	21	17	18	18	18
Duke	17	17	22	18	16	15	12	11	12	10	11	11	18	20	16	17	17	17
Florida State	1	1	1	7	7	6	6	4	4	6	5	6	6	5	5	4	5	5
Louisville						25	RV	16	10	8	9	15
Miami
North Carolina	3	3	3	2	1	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2
NC State	21	21	20	16	23								RV	RV	RV	24	24	24
Notre Dame			RV	RV	RV
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Virginia	5	5	5	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	9	9	9
Virginia Tech	RV	RV	RV	RV	20	16	13	19	18	19	17	21	20	22
Wake Forest	RV	RV	25	20	21

Players of the Week

Week	Offensive Player of the week	Defensive of the week	Reference
Week 1 – Aug. 27	Amanda West, Pittsburgh	Maycee Bell, North Carolina	^[9]
Week 2 – Sep. 3	Diana Ordoñez, Virginia	Hannah McLaughlin, Clemson	^[10]
Week 3 – Sep. 10	Nicole Kozlova, Virginia Tech	Laurel Ivory, Virginia	^[11]
Week 4 – Sep. 17	Emina Ekic, Louisville	Mandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech	^[12]
	Maliah Morris, Clemson
Week 5 – Sep. 24	Tziarra King, NC State	Maycee Bell (2), North Carolina	^[13]
Week 6 – Oct. 1	Deyna Castellanos, Florida State	Laurel Ivory (2), Virginia	^[14]
Week 7 – Oct. 8	Bridgette Andrzejewski, North Carolina	Mandy McGlynn (2), Virginia Tech	^[15]
Week 8 – Oct. 15	Mackenzie Pluck, Duke	Laurel Ivory (3), Virginia	^[16]
Week 9 – Oct. 22	Meghan McCool, Virginia	Amaia Pena, Pittsburgh	^[17]
Week 10 – Oct. 29	Meghan McCool (2), Virginia	Emily Fox, North Carolina	^[18]
Week 11 – Nov. 5	Deyna Castellanos (2), Florida State	Lulu Guttenberger, NC State	^[19]

Postseason

ACC tournament

Main article: 2019 ACC Women's Soccer Tournament

	Semifinals					Final
	1	North Carolina	3
	5	NC State	0
						1	North Carolina	2^(2OT)
						3	Virginia	1
	2	Florida State	1
	3	Virginia	2^(OT)

NCAA tournament

Main article: 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament

Seed	Region	School	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Championship
1	Florida State	Florida State	W 2–0 vs. Lamar – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 2–0 vs. Brown – (Tallahassee, FL)	W 2–1 vs. South Florida – (Tallahassee, FL)	L 0–4 vs. UCLA – (Tallahassee, FL)
1	North Carolina	North Carolina	W 5–0 vs. Belmont – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 1–0 vs. Colorado – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 4–0 vs. Michigan – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 3–2 vs. USC – (Chapel Hill, NC)	W 2–1 vs. Washington State – (San Diego, CA)	T 0–0 (4–5 PKs) vs. Stanford – (San Diego, CA)
1	Virginia	Virginia	W 3–0 vs. Radford – (Charlottesville, VA)	L 2–3 vs. Washington State – (Charlottesville, VA)
	Florida State	Clemson	T 0–0 (5–4 PKs) vs. Vanderbilt – (Clemson, SC)	L 0–5 vs. UCLA – (Los Angeles, CA)
	Florida State	Duke	W 4–0 vs. Utah – (Durham, NC)	L 0–1 vs. Wisconsin – (Los Angeles, CA)
	Stanford	Louisville	W 1–0 vs. Lipscomb – (Louisville, KY)	L 0–4 vs. BYU – (Provo, UT)
	Stanford	NC State	W 3–0 vs. Navy – (Raleigh, NC)	W 2–1 vs. Arkansas – (Provo, UT)	L 0–3 vs. BYU – (Provo, UT)
	Virginia	Notre Dame	W 1–0 vs. Saint Louis – (Notre Dame, IN)	L 0–1 vs. South Carolina - (Columbia, SC)
	Virginia	Virginia Tech	L 0–1 vs. Xavier – (Blacksburg, VA)
		W–L (%):	7–1–1 (.833)	3–5–0 (.375)	2–1–0 (.667)	1–1–0 (.500)	1–0–0 (1.000)	0–0–1 (.500) Total: 14–8–2 (.625)

Awards and honors

All-Americans

2019 United Soccer Coaches All-Americans^[20]
First Team	Second Team	Third Team
Malia Berkely, DF, Florida State Emily Fox, DF, North Carolina Brianna Pinto, MF, North Carolina Alessia Russo, FW, North Carolina	Mandy McGlynn, GK, Virginia Tech Deyna Castellanos, MF, Florida State Emina Ekic, MF, Louisville	Maycee Bell, DF, North Carolina Tziarra King, MF, NC State Meghan McCool, FW, Virginia

ACC Awards

Source:^[21]

2019 ACC Women's Soccer Individual Awards
Award	Recipient(s)
Offensive Player of the Year	Deyna Castellanos – Florida State
Coach of the Year	Anson Dorrance – North Carolina
Defensive Player of the Year	Malia Berkely – Florida State
Midfielder of the Year	Deyna Castellanos – Florida State
Freshman of the Year	Maycee Bell – North Carolina

2019 ACC Women's Soccer All-Conference Teams
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	All-Freshman Team
Malia Berkely,  Jr., D, Florida State Deyna Castellanos, Sr., M, Florida State Jaelin Howell, So., M, Florida State Yujie Zhao, So., M, Florida State Emina Ekic, Jr., M, Louisville Emily Fox, Jr., D, North Carolina Brianna Pinto, So., M, North Carolina Alessia Russo, Jr., F, North Carolina Tziarra King, Sr., M, NC State Meghan McCool, Sr., F, Virginia Mandy McGlynn, Sr., GK, Virginia Tech	Delaney Graham, So., D, Duke Ella Stevens, Sr., M, Duke Gabrielle Kouzelos, Jr., GK, Louisville Maycee Bell, Fr., D, North Carolina Lotte Wubben-Moy, Jr., D, North Carolina Phoebe McClernon, Sr., D, Virginia Diana Ordoñez, Fr., F, Virginia Courtney Petersen, R-Sr., D, Virginia Alexa Spaanstra, So., M, Virginia Taryn Torres, Jr., M, Virginia Madison Hammond, Sr., D, Wake Forest	Olivia Vaughn, Sr., F, Boston College Brooklynn Rivers, Sr., F, Louisville Lulu Guttenberger, R-So., D, NC State Krissi Schuster, Sr., D, NC State Ricci Walkling, Sr., M, NC State Taylor Otto, R-Jr., M, North Carolina Sammi Fisher, Jr., M, Notre Dame Eva Hurm, Jr., F, Notre Dame Amanda West, Fr., F, Pittsburgh Laurel Ivory, Jr., GK, Virginia Kelsey Irwin, R-Sr., D, Virginia Tech	Sam Smith, Fr., F, Boston College Hal Hershfelt, Fr., M, Clemson Maliah Morris, Fr., F, Clemson Sophie Jones, Fr., M, Duke Heather Payne, Fr., D, Florida State Jenna Nighswonger, Fr., F, Florida State Jameese Joseph, Fr., F, NC State Maycee Bell, Fr., D, North Carolina Isabel Cox, Fr., F, North Carolina Amanda West, Fr., F, Pittsburgh Diana Ordoñez, Fr., F, Virginia

2020 NWSL Draft

Main article: 2020 NWSL College Draft

FW

Forward

MF

Midfielder

DF

Defender

GK

Goalkeeper

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position	School
Courtney Petersen	Orlando Pride	1	7	DF	Virginia
Tziarra King	Utah Royals	1	8	FW	NC State
Phoebe McClernon	Orlando Pride	2	14	DF	Virginia
Bridgette Andrzejewski	Houston Dash	2	18	FW	North Carolina
Zoe Morse	Chicago Red Stars	3	19	MF	Virginia
Mandy McGlynn	Sky Blue	3	20	GK	Virginia Tech
Ella Stevens	Chicago Red Stars	3	24	FW	Duke

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