American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament

American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
Conference Soccer Championship
Sport College soccer
Conference American Athletic Conference
Number of teams 8
Format Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium Morrone Stadium
Current location Storrs, CT
Played 2013–present
Last contest 2016
Current champion Connecticut
Most championships Connecticut (2)

The American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the American Athletic Conference. The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.

Format

The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season. Tiebreakers begin with the result of the head-to-head matchup. The teams are then placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, until meeting in a final championship game. After two overtime period, ties are broken by shootout rounds, with the winner of the shootout advancing.

Champions

By year

Year Champion Site MOP (Offense) MOP (Defense)
2013 UCF UCF Soccer and Track Stadium • Orlando, FL Tatiana Coleman, UCF Jessica Janosz, Rutgers
2014 Connecticut Corbett Soccer Stadium • Tampa, FL Rachel Hill, Connecticut Emily Armstrong, Connecticut
2015 Cincinnati Westcott Field • Dallas, TX Jaycie Brown, Cincinnati Vanessa Gilles, Cincinnati
2016 Connecticut Morrone Stadium • Storrs, CT Rachel Hill, Connecticut Toriana Paterson, Connecticut

By school

This table of championship statistics is updated after each event. It is current as of the end of the 2014 Tournament.[1]

School Appearances W L T Pct. No. of Titles Years
Cincinnati 4 2 2 2 .500 1 2015
Connecticut 4 5 2 1 .688 2 2014, 2016
East Carolina 2 2 2 0 .500 0
Houston 2 0 2 0 .000 0
Louisville 1 0 1 0 .000 0
Memphis 4 2 3 1 .417 0
Rutgers 1 1 0 2 .667 0
SMU 3 2 2 1 .500 0
South Florida 4 4 1 4 .667 0
Temple 2 0 2 0 .000 0
Tulsa 2 0 2 0 .000 0
UCF 4 3 2 3 .563 1 2013

Teams in italics no longer sponsor women's soccer in the American.

References

  1. ↑ 2015 Women's Soccer Media Guide (PDF). The American. p. 31. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
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