2020 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team

The 2020 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team represented Florida State University during the 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. It was the 26th season of the university fielding a program. The Seminoles were led by 16th year head coach Mark Krikorian.

2020 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer
ACC Regular Season co-champions ACC Tournament Champions
NCAA Tournament, Runner-Up
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 2
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 2
Record	13–0–3 (8–0–0 ACC)
Head coach	Mark Krikorian (16th season)
Assistant coaches	Mike Bristol (12th season) Morinao Imaizumi (8th season)
Home stadium	Seminole Soccer Complex
Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

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.^[1][2]

The Seminoles finished the fall season 11–0–0, 8–0–0 in ACC play, to finish in first place. As the first seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Notre Dame, Duke, and finally North Carolina to claim the championship. The Seminoles did not play any additional games in the spring season and entered the NCAA Tournament as the ACC's automatic qualifier because they won the ACC Tournament. They were selected as the first overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and defeated Milwaukee in the Second Round and Penn State in the Third Round. They advanced past Duke in the Quarterfinals and Virginia in the Semifinals on penalty shootouts. However, their shootout luck ran out in the Finals, where they fell to Santa Clara to end their season. Jaelin Howell went on to win the Herman Trophy.^[3]

Previous season

Main article: 2019 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team

The Seminoles finished the season 18–6–0, 8–2–0 in ACC play, to finish in second place. As the second seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Clemson in the first round before losing in overtime to Virginia in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated South Alabama, Brown, and USF, before losing to UCLA in the quarterfinals.

Squad

Roster

Source:^[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 1 GK   PUR Cristina Roque 2 FW   USA Jenna Nighswonger 4 MF   USA Kristina Lynch 5 DF   SWE Linn Bogren 6 MF   USA Jaelin Howell 7 MF   JPN Ran Iwai 8 FW   USA Lauren Flynn 10 FW   JAM Jody Brown 11 MF   USA Kirsten Pavlisko 12 MF   IRL Heather Payne 13 FW   BER LeiLanni Nesbeth

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   USA Kaitlyn Zipay 16 DF   CAN Gabby Carle 17 DF   USA Malia Berkely 20 FW   USA Kristen McFarland 21 MF   CHN Yujie Zhao 22 DF   USA Alyssa Conarton 24 FW   USA Makala Thomas 25 MF   USA Emily Madril 26 DF   USA Clara Robbins 45 GK   USA Brooke Bollinger

Team management

Position	Staff
Athletic Director	David Coburn
Head Coach	Mark Krikorian
Assistant Coach	Mike Bristol
Assistant Coach	Morinao Imaizumi
Director of Operations	Nathan Minion

Source:^[5]

Schedule

Source:^[6]

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
ACC Regular season
September 17 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 2	Notre Dame	W 5–0	1–0–0 (1–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (298) Tallahassee, FL
September 20 1:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 2	Louisville	W 1–0	2–0–0 (2–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (331) Tallahassee, FL
October 1 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 2	at Virginia Tech	W 4–0	3–0–0 (3–0–0)	Thompson Field (124) Blacksburg, VA
October 4 1:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 2	at Wake Forest	W 4–0	4–0–0 (4–0–0)	Spry Stadium (100) Winston-Salem, NC
October 15 6:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 2	at Pittsburgh	W 4–1	5–0–0 (5–0–0)	Ambrose Urbanic Field (50) Pittsburgh, PA
October 18 3:30 p.m., ESPN2	No. 2	at No. 11 Virginia	W 4–3	6–0–0 (6–0–0)	Klöckner Stadium (188) Charlottesville, VA
October 29 4:00 p.m., ACCRSN	No. 2	No. 5 Duke	W 1–0	7–0–0 (7–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (284) Tallahassee, FL
November 1 3:00 p.m., ACCRSN	No. 2	No. 3 Clemson	W 2–0	8–0–0 (8–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (400) Tallahassee, FL
ACC Tournament
November 10 12:30 p.m., ACCN	(1) No. 2	vs. (8) No. 12 Notre Dame Quarterfinals	W 2–0	9–0–0	Sahlen's Stadium (217) Cary, NC
November 13 5:30 p.m., ACCN	(1) No. 2	vs. (5) No. 6 Duke Semifinals	W 4–0	10–0–0	Sahlen's Stadium (277) Cary, NC
November 15 Noon, ESPNU	(1) No. 2	vs. (2) No. 1 North Carolina Finals	W 3–2	11–0–0	Sahlen's Stadium (320) Cary, NC
NCAA Tournament
May 1, 2021 3:00 p.m.	(1) No. 1	vs. Milwaukee Second Round	W 3–0	12–0–0	WakeMed Soccer Park (144) Cary, NC
May 5, 2021 3:00 p.m., NCAA Livestream	(1) No. 1	vs. No. 9 Penn State Third Round	W 3–1	13–0–0	WakeMed Soccer Park (185) Cary, NC
May 9, 2021 1:00 p.m., NCAA Livestream	(1) No. 1	vs. (9) No. 8 Duke Quarterfinals	T 0–0 (5–3 PKs) ^2OT	13–0–1	WakeMed Soccer Park (164) Cary, NC
May 13, 2021 6:00 p.m., ESPN2	(1) No. 1	vs. No. 13 Virginia Semifinals	T 0–0 (3–0 PKs) ^2OT	13–0–2	WakeMed Soccer Park (2,166) Cary, NC
May 17, 2021 5:30 p.m., ESPN2	(1) No. 1	vs. (11) No. 10 Santa Clara Finals	T 1–1 (1–4 PKs) ^2OT	13–0–3	WakeMed Soccer Park (5,000) Cary, NC
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Rankings

Main article: 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer 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^[7]	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1

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^[7]	None Released				1 (28)	1 (31)	1 (33)	1 (30)	1 (31)	1 (33)	1 (32)	1 (28)	None Released		2 (1)
TopDrawer Soccer ^[8]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2

References

1. "ACC Women's Soccer 2020 Preview | College Soccer". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
2. "NCAA Division 1 Council Approves Moving 2020 Fall Championships to Spring 2021". SI.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
3. "Jaelin Howell Wins MAC Hermann Trophy". Seminoles.com. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
4. "2020-21 Soccer roster". Florida State University Athletics. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
5. "Soccer Staff Directory". seminoles.com. Florida State University. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
6. "2020 Women's Soccer Schedule". seminoles.com. Florida State University. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
7. "United Soccer Coaches Top 25 NCAA DI Women — National". unitedsoccercoaches.org. United Soccer Coaches. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
8. "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.