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Mountaineers Earn 21st Consecutive NCAA Bid
April 19, 2021 04:19 PM | Women's Soccer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University women's soccer team earned an at-large bid in the 2020-21 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship, the selection committee announced on Monday.
With the selection, the Mountaineers qualified for their 21st consecutive NCAA Tournament, good for the fifth-longest streak in the nation. WVU is 23-18-5 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and earned the No. 5 overall seed in this year's event.
"We're obviously very excited to participate in this College Cup," WVU coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said. "I'm going to contribute everything to this team because they've been so locked in and so focused to our success."
The Mountaineers grabbed a first-round bye and await the winner of Rice vs. Furman in the Second Round on May 1, in Cary, North Carolina. The Owls (12-2-1) earned an automatic bid after winning the Conference USA championship, while Furman (8-0-2) won the Southern Conference.
WVU finished the 2020-21 regular season with a 10-2-1 mark, including 7-2 in Big 12 play. The Mountaineers were unbeaten in the spring, finishing 3-0-1 with a pair of top-10 wins. West Virginia has now won at least 10 games in each of the last 21 seasons.
Senior midfielder Stefany Ferrer-vanGinkel and junior forward Alina Stahl co-lead the Mountaineers in goals, with six, while redshirt junior forward Lauren Segalla's five assists are tops on the squad. WVU has featured eight different goal scorers and 11 players with at least one assist this season.
In goal, sophomore goalkeeper Kayza Massey is 7-1-1 with two shutouts between the posts this season. She has made 16 saves on the year.
Twenty-nine conferences were granted automatic bids for this year's championship, while the remaining 19 teams were selected at-large. The top-16 teams nationally are seeded. The 48-team tournament will be held entirely in the state of North Carolina. The move is effective for this year's men's and women's soccer championships, which were postponed last fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First-round games will be played on April 27-28, before the second round commences on April 30-May 1. Games in the third round will be played on May 5, while the quarterfinals will take place on May 9.
The NCAA Women's College Cup will be played May 13-17, at Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. The national semifinals will be on May 13, ahead of May 17's national championship game.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUWomensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
With the selection, the Mountaineers qualified for their 21st consecutive NCAA Tournament, good for the fifth-longest streak in the nation. WVU is 23-18-5 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and earned the No. 5 overall seed in this year's event.
"We're obviously very excited to participate in this College Cup," WVU coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said. "I'm going to contribute everything to this team because they've been so locked in and so focused to our success."
The Mountaineers grabbed a first-round bye and await the winner of Rice vs. Furman in the Second Round on May 1, in Cary, North Carolina. The Owls (12-2-1) earned an automatic bid after winning the Conference USA championship, while Furman (8-0-2) won the Southern Conference.
WVU finished the 2020-21 regular season with a 10-2-1 mark, including 7-2 in Big 12 play. The Mountaineers were unbeaten in the spring, finishing 3-0-1 with a pair of top-10 wins. West Virginia has now won at least 10 games in each of the last 21 seasons.
Senior midfielder Stefany Ferrer-vanGinkel and junior forward Alina Stahl co-lead the Mountaineers in goals, with six, while redshirt junior forward Lauren Segalla's five assists are tops on the squad. WVU has featured eight different goal scorers and 11 players with at least one assist this season.
In goal, sophomore goalkeeper Kayza Massey is 7-1-1 with two shutouts between the posts this season. She has made 16 saves on the year.
Twenty-nine conferences were granted automatic bids for this year's championship, while the remaining 19 teams were selected at-large. The top-16 teams nationally are seeded. The 48-team tournament will be held entirely in the state of North Carolina. The move is effective for this year's men's and women's soccer championships, which were postponed last fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First-round games will be played on April 27-28, before the second round commences on April 30-May 1. Games in the third round will be played on May 5, while the quarterfinals will take place on May 9.
The NCAA Women's College Cup will be played May 13-17, at Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. The national semifinals will be on May 13, ahead of May 17's national championship game.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUWomensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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