The 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference women's soccer season was the 31st season of women's varsity soccer in the conference.

The North Carolina Tar Heels were the defending regular season champions. The Florida State Seminoles were the defending ACC tournament champions.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Team Stadium Capacity Boston College Eagles Newton Soccer Complex 2,500 Clemson Tigers Riggs Field 6,500 Duke Blue Devils Koskinen Stadium 7,000 Florida State Seminoles Seminole Soccer Complex 1,600 Louisville Cardinals Lynn Stadium 5,300 Miami Hurricanes Cobb Stadium 500 NC State Wolfpack Dail Soccer Field 3,000 North Carolina Tar Heels Dorrance Field 5,025 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Alumni Stadium 2,500 Pittsburgh Panthers Ambrose Urbanic Field 735 Syracuse Orange SU Soccer Stadium 5,000 Virginia Cavaliers Klöckner Stadium 8,000 Virginia Tech Hokies Thompson Field 2,500 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Spry Stadium 3,000

1. Georgia Tech does not sponsor women's soccer

Coaches

Coaching changes

Pre-Season Boston College's coach Allison Foley resigned on December 12, 2018, citing the desire to pursue other opportunities. Jason Lowe was named as her replacement on January 9, 2019. Syracuse coach Phil Wheddon resigned on October 26, 2018, citing the desire to pursue other opportunities. Nicky Adams was hired as his replacement on February 25, 2019.

Head coaching records

Team Head coach Years at school Overall record Record at school ACC record Boston College Jason Lowe 1 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 Clemson Eddie Radwanski 9 221–119–34 82–54–21 34–41–8 Duke Robbie Church 19 322–171–59 235–122–48 90–58–25 Florida State Mark Krikorian 15 258–60–30 258–60–30 95–30–18 Louisville Karen Ferguson-Dayes 19 169–156–35 169–156–35 18–24–8 Miami Sarah Barnes 2 66–50–17 6–9–3 3–6–1 North Carolina Anson Dorrance 41 809–67–36 809–67–36 191–26–9 NC State Tim Santoro 7 50–63–10 50–63–10 15–44–4 Notre Dame Nate Norman 2 66–45–14 8–10–0 4–6–0 Pittsburgh Randy Waldrum 2 403–120–30 4–12–1 7–15–1 Syracuse Nicky Adams 1 87–55–23 0–0–0 0–0–0 Virginia Steve Swanson 19 402–155–56 298–92–45 119–44–17 Virginia Tech Charles Adair 9 106–48–18 106–48–18 37–35–11 Wake Forest Tony da Luz 22 302–206–46 257-165-44 86–96–19

Notes Records shown are prior to the 2019 season Years at school includes the 2019 season

Pre-season

Hermann Trophy Watchlist

The ACC had 12 players named to the MAC Hermann Trophy preseason watch list.

Player Class Position School Malia Berkely Junior MF Florida State Deyna Castellanos Senior FW Florida State Emina Ekic Junior MF Louisville Jaelin Howell Sophomore MF Florida State Laurel Ivory Junior GK Virginia Sandy MacIver Senior GK Clemson Phoebe McClernon Senior DF Virginia Taylor Otto Junior FW North Carolina Brianna Pinto Sophomore MF North Carolina Alessia Russo Junior FW North Carolina Alexa Spaanstra Sophomore FW Virginia Yujie Zhao Sophomore MF Florida State

Pre-season poll The 2019 ACC Preseason Poll was announced on August 8, 2019. The defending regular season champions, North Carolina were voted to repeat their regular season crown. Florida State was voted in second place, even though they received two more first place votes than North Carolina. The league's 14 head coaches also voted on a preseason All-ACC team. Full results for the coaches poll and preseason team are shown below.

Pre-season coaches poll

1 North Carolina 188 (6) 2 Florida State 185 (8) 3 Virginia 163 4 Duke 155 5 Clemson 121 6 NC State 109 7 Wake Forest 106 8 Louisville 99 9 Notre Dame 88 10 Boston College 87 11 Virginia Tech 85 12 Miami 39 13 Pittsburgh 29 14 Syracuse 16

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Pre-season All-ACC Team Position Player Class School Goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn Senior Florida State Defender Malia Berkely Junior Florida State Emily Fox Junior North Carolina Midfielder Jaelin Howell Sophomore Florida State Yujie Zhao Sophomore Florida State Emina Ekic Junior Louisville Brianna Pinto Sophomore North Carolina Forward Mariana Speckmaier Junior Clemson Deyna Castellanos Senior Florida State Tziarra King Senior NC State Alessia Russo Junior North Carolina

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Regular season

Conference matrix

The table below shows head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team plays 10 matches. Each team does not play every other team.   Boston CollegeClemsonDukeFlorida StateLouisvilleMiamiNorth CarolinaNC StateNotre DamePittsburghSyracuseVirginiaVirginia TechWake Forestvs. Boston College – 2–1 – 5–4 2–1 0–4 3–0 2–0 – 2–1 – 6–1 2–1 3–3 (2OT)vs. Clemson 1–2 – 4–1 2–1 1–0 3–2 (2OT) 1–0 – 0–1 2–3 (OT) 1–4 – 1–3 –vs. Duke – 1–4 – 1–0 1–1 (2OT) – 0–0 (2OT) 1–1 (2OT) 1–1 (2OT) – 1–4 0–0 (2OT) 0–0 (2OT) 2–3vs. Florida State 4–5 1–2 0–1 – – 0–3 2–0 – – 0–1 0–1 1–0 2–3 1–2vs. Louisville 1–2 0–1 1–1 (2OT) – – 0–1 3–0 1–0 0–0 (2OT) – 0–3 3–0 – 1–2vs. Miami 4–0 2–3 (2OT) – 3–0 1–0 – 2–3 – 3–0 3–3 (2OT) 1–2 3–0 2–0 –vs. North Carolina 0–3 0–1 0–0 (2OT) 0–2 0–3 3–2 – 0–1 0–3 1–3 – – 0–2 –vs. NC State 0–2 – 1–1 (2OT) – 0–1 – 1–0 – 0–3 2–1 2–3 (OT) 0–0 (2OT) 1–1 (2OT) 1–1 (2OT)vs. Notre Dame – 1–0 1–1 (2OT) – 0–0 (2OT) 0–3 3–0 3–0 – 0–4 0–3 3–0 – 2–3 (2OT)vs. Pittsburgh 1–2 3–2 (OT) – 1–0 – 3–3 (2OT) 3–1 1–2 4–0 – 1–1 (2OT) – 1–0 3–2 (2OT)vs. Syracuse – 4–1 4–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 – 3–2 (OT) 3–0 1–1 (2OT) – – – 1–2vs. Virginia 1–6 – 0–0 (2OT) 0–1 0–3 0–3 – 0–0 (2OT) 0–3 – – – 0–2 1–1 (2OT)vs. Virginia Tech 1–2 3–1 0–0 (2OT) 3–2 – 0–2 2–0 1–1 (2OT) – 0–1 – 2–0 – 0–1vs. Wake Forest 3–3 (2OT) – 3–2 2–1 2–1 – – 1–1 (2OT) 3–2 (2OT) 2–3 (2OT) 2–1 1–1 (2OT) 1–0 –Total 1–8–1 5–5–0 3–1–6 8–2–0 5–3–2 2–7–1 9–0–1 4–2–4 4–4–2 2–6–2 1–7–1 6–0–3 4–4–2 1–6–3

Rankings

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Players of the Week

Week Offensive Player of the week Defensive of the week Reference Week 1 – Aug. 27 Amanda West, Pittsburgh Maycee Bell, North Carolina Week 2 – Sep. 3 Diana Ordoñez, Virginia Hannah McLaughlin, Clemson Week 3 – Sep. 10 Nicole Kozlova, Virginia Tech Laurel Ivory, Virginia Week 4 – Sep. 17 Emina Ekic, Louisville Mandy McGlynn, Virginia Tech Maliah Morris, Clemson Week 5 – Sep. 24 Tziarra King, NC State Maycee Bell (2), North Carolina Week 6 – Oct. 1 Deyna Castellanos, Florida State Laurel Ivory (2), Virginia Week 7 – Oct. 8 Bridgette Andrzejewski, North Carolina Mandy McGlynn (2), Virginia Tech Week 8 – Oct. 15 Mackenzie Pluck, Duke Laurel Ivory (3), Virginia Week 9 – Oct. 22 Meghan McCool, Virginia Amaia Peña, Pittsburgh Week 10 – Oct. 29 Meghan McCool (2), Virginia Emily Fox, North Carolina Week 11 – Nov. 5 Deyna Castellanos (2), Florida State Lulu Guttenberger, NC State

Postseason

ACC tournament

NCAA tournament

Seed Region School 1st round 2nd round 3rd round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship 1 Florida State Florida State W 2–0 vs. Lamar – (Tallahassee, FL) W 2–0 vs. Brown – (Tallahassee, FL) W 2–1 vs. South Florida – (Tallahassee, FL) L 0–4 vs. UCLA – (Tallahassee, FL) 1 North Carolina North Carolina W 5–0 vs. Belmont – (Chapel Hill, NC) W 1–0 vs. Colorado – (Chapel Hill, NC) W 4–0 vs. Michigan – (Chapel Hill, NC) W 3–2 vs. USC – (Chapel Hill, NC) W 2–1 vs. Washington State – (San Diego, CA) T 0–0 (4–5 PKs) vs. Stanford – (San Diego, CA) 1 Virginia Virginia W 3–0 vs. Radford – (Charlottesville, VA) L 2–3 vs. Washington State – (Charlottesville, VA) Florida State Clemson T 0–0 (5–4 PKs) vs. Vanderbilt – (Clemson, SC) L 0–5 vs. UCLA – (Los Angeles, CA) Florida State Duke W 4–0 vs. Utah – (Durham, NC) L 0–1 vs. Wisconsin – (Los Angeles, CA) Stanford Louisville W 1–0 vs. Lipscomb – (Louisville, KY) L 0–4 vs. BYU – (Provo, UT) Stanford NC State W 3–0 vs. Navy – (Raleigh, NC) W 2–1 vs. Arkansas – (Provo, UT) L 0–3 vs. BYU – (Provo, UT) Virginia Notre Dame W 1–0 vs. Saint Louis – (Notre Dame, IN) L 0–1 vs. South Carolina - (Columbia, SC) Virginia Virginia Tech L 0–1 vs. Xavier – (Blacksburg, VA)W–L (%): Total:

Awards and honors

All-Americans

2019 United Soccer Coaches All-Americans First Team Second Team Third TeamMalia Berkely, DF, Florida State Emily Fox, DF, North Carolina Brianna Pinto, MF, North Carolina Alessia Russo, FW, North CarolinaMandy McGlynn, GK, Virginia Tech Deyna Castellanos, MF, Florida State Emina Ekic, MF, LouisvilleMaycee Bell, DF, North Carolina Tziarra King, MF, NC State Meghan McCool, FW, Virginia

ACC Awards

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2019 ACC Women's Soccer Individual Awards Award Recipient(s) Offensive Player of the Year Deyna Castellanos – Florida State Coach of the Year Anson Dorrance – North Carolina Defensive Player of the Year Malia Berkely – Florida State Midfielder of the Year Deyna Castellanos – Florida State Freshman of the Year Maycee Bell – North Carolina

2019 ACC Women's Soccer All-Conference Teams First Team Second Team Third Team All-Freshman TeamMalia Berkely, Jr., D, Florida State Deyna Castellanos, Sr., M, Florida State Jaelin Howell, So., M, Florida State Yujie Zhao, So., M, Florida State Emina Ekic, Jr., M, Louisville Emily Fox, Jr., D, North Carolina Brianna Pinto, So., M, North Carolina Alessia Russo, Jr., F, North Carolina Tziarra King, Sr., M, NC State Meghan McCool, Sr., F, Virginia Mandy McGlynn, Sr., GK, Virginia TechDelaney Graham, So., D, Duke Ella Stevens, Sr., M, Duke Gabrielle Kouzelos, Jr., GK, Louisville Maycee Bell, Fr., D, North Carolina Lotte Wubben-Moy, Jr., D, North Carolina Phoebe McClernon, Sr., D, Virginia Diana Ordóñez, Fr., F, Virginia Courtney Petersen, R-Sr., D, Virginia Alexa Spaanstra, So., M, Virginia Taryn Torres, Jr., M, Virginia Madison Hammond, Sr., D, Wake ForestOlivia Vaughn, Sr., F, Boston College Brooklynn Rivers, Sr., F, Louisville Lulu Guttenberger, R-So., D, NC State Krissi Schuster, Sr., D, NC State Ricci Walkling, Sr., M, NC State Taylor Otto, R-Jr., M, North Carolina Sammi Fisher, Jr., M, Notre Dame Eva Hurm, Jr., F, Notre Dame Amanda West, Fr., F, Pittsburgh Laurel Ivory, Jr., GK, Virginia Kelsey Irwin, R-Sr., D, Virginia TechSam Smith, Fr., F, Boston College Hal Hershfelt, Fr., M, Clemson Maliah Morris, Fr., F, Clemson Sophie Jones, Fr., M, Duke Heather Payne, Fr., D, Florida State Jenna Nighswonger, Fr., F, Florida State Jameese Joseph, Fr., F, NC State Maycee Bell, Fr., D, North Carolina Isabel Cox, Fr., F, North Carolina Amanda West, Fr., F, Pittsburgh Diana Ordóñez, Fr., F, Virginia

2020 NWSL Draft

FW Forward MF Midfielder DF Defender GK Goalkeeper