2014 Summit League women's soccer tournament explained

Year:2014
Conference:Summit League
Gender:women's
Teams:4
Matches:3
Venue:CIBER Field
City:Denver, CO
Champions:South Dakota State
Titlecount:2nd
Coach:Lang Wedemeyer
Coachcount:2nd
Mvp:Tori Poole
Mvpteam:South Dakota State

The 2014 Summit League women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Summit League held on November 6 and 8, 2014. The three-match tournament took place at CIBER Field at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium in Denver, Colorado. The four-team single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Denver Pioneers were the defending champions, but were unable to defend their title after they lost the final match to the champion: South Dakota State. The tournament win was South Dakota State's second as a member of the conference, and second for coach Lang Wedemeyer. As tournament champions, South Dakota State earned the Summit League's automatic berth into the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.

Seeding

The top four of the ten teams competing during the regular season qualified for the 2014 tournament. Seeding was based on regular season conference records. IUPUI earned the second seed over Denver, based on IUPUI having the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Pioneers.[1]

SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints
1South Dakota State5-2-116
2IUPUI5-3-015
3Denver5-3-015
4North Dakota State4-2-214

Schedule

Final

All-Tournament Team

Source:[2]

Player Team
Tori PooleSouth Dakota State
Diana Potterveld
Nicole Inskeep
Nicole Hatcher
Brooke BootheDenver
Francesca Garzelloni
Tina Vargas
Anna RodeIUPUI
Kalli Shepler-Tucker
Anisha KinnarathNorth Dakota State
Tristyn Walczak
MVP in bold

Notes and References

  1. Web site: South Dakota State Earns Top Seed in #SummitWSOC Championship. The Summit League. November 15, 2022.
  2. Web site: Late Goal Lifts South Dakota State to #SummitWSOC Title. The Summit League. November 16, 2022.