Year: | 2018 |
Conference: | Missouri Valley Conference |
Gender: | women's |
Teams: | 6 |
Matches: | 5 |
Attendance: | 1,279 |
Venue: | Loyola Soccer Park |
City: | Chicago, Illinois (Semifinals & Final) |
Champions: | Loyola |
Titlecount: | 1st |
Coach: | Barry Bimbi |
Coachcount: | 1st |
Broadcast: | ESPN+ |
Mvp: | Jenna Szczesny |
Mvpteam: | Loyola |
The 2018 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference held from October 28 through November 4, 2018. The opening round matches of the tournament were held at campus sites, while the semifinals and final took place at Loyola Soccer Park in Chicago, Illinois. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Missouri State Lady Bears, but they were eliminated from the 2018 tournament with a 1–0 loss to the Illinois State Redbirds in the opening round. The Loyola won the tournament with a 3–2 win over Drake in the final.[1] The conference tournament title was the first for the Loyloa women's soccer program and the first for head coach Barry Bimbi.[2]
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Player | Team | |
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Kaitlin Maxwell | Missouri State | |
Jami Reichenberger | UNI | |
Morgan Blair | Evansville | |
Michaela Till | Evansville | |
Abby Basler | Illinois State | |
Alissa Ramsden | Illinois State | |
Linda Fiorito | Drake | |
Olivia Bruce | Drake | |
Cassie Rohan | Drake | |
Abby Swanson | Loyola | |
Katharine Stephens | Loyola | |
Madison Laudeman | Loyola | |
Jenna Szczesny | Loyola (MVP) |