Year: | 2017 |
Conference: | Southern Conference |
Gender: | women's |
Teams: | 10 |
Matches: | 9 |
Attendance: | 2,998 |
Venue: | Samford University Track & Soccer Stadium |
City: | Birmingham, Alabama (Semifinals and Final) |
Champions: | UNC Greensboro |
Titlecount: | 7th |
Coach: | Michael Coll |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Broadcast: | SoCon Digital Network ESPN3 (Final) |
The 2017 Southern Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Southern Conference held from October 25 through November 5, 2017. The first round and quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Samford University Track & Soccer Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama. The ten-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Samford Bulldogs were the defending champions, but they were eliminated from the 2017 tournament with a 2–1 semifinal loss in double overtime to the UNC Greensboro Spartans. UNC Greensboro won the tournament with a 1–0 win over the Western Carolina Catamounts in the final.[1] [2] This was the seventh Southern Conference tournament title for the UNC Greensboro women's soccer program and the first for head coach Michael Coll.[3]