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Womens Soccer College Rankings: Which One Do You Believe?

October 1, 2009

by Jeff Steel GirlsSoccerUsa.com

It seems that there is a new site ranking women's soccer popping up everyday. Everyone has an opinion but who do you believe? Do you believe the sites like Soccer Times and NSCAA who poll top college coaches? How many of these coaches actually follow what other teams are doing? I am sure they follow the teams on their schedule and in their conference, but do they take the time to check on every team? Do you think that maybe these coaches vote on teams based on popularity, past performance, and maybe even vote on teamsthat they are or have played only to make their results against those teams, to make their own team look better?

I have come up with my own rankings. I believe that my rankings are more accurate than many of the other polls, because it is my job to follow what all of the teams are doing. While coaches are spending their time trying to improve their team and get ready for the next game I am spending hours watching games and sifting through the internet researching every team. I figured that you probably do not agree with all of my picks, so I put together my picks along with 3 other top rankings sites and came up with an average ranking system.

Below is the chart that shows my picks and 3 of the top ranking sites picks., along with the average rank of the four. I will post the updated ranking on this site every week by Wednesday.
Rank Average Girls Soccer USA Top Drawer NSCAA Soccer Times
1 North Carolina  North Carolina  Stanford North Carolina  Stanford
1 Stanford Stanford North Carolina  Stanford North Carolina 
3 Florida State Florida State Florida State UCLA UCLA
4 Portland Boston College Portland Portland Portland
5 UCLA Portland Boston College Florida State Florida State
6 Boston College South Carolina UCLA Boston College Boston College
7 Florida UCLA USC Florida South Carolina
8 South Carolina Florida Notre Dame South Carolina Florida
9 Notre Dame Michigan State Virginia Wake Forest Wake Forest
10 Rutgers Rutgers Michigan State Notre Dame Notre Dame
11 Michigan State Oregon State Florida Santa Clara Virginia
12 Wake Forest Santa Clara Wake Forest Purdue Rutgers
13 Santa Clara USC California Rutgers Santa Clara
14 Virginia Georgia BYU California California
15 California Notre Dame South Carolina Ohio State Texas A&M
16 USC Charlotte Rutgers Texas A&M Michigan State
17 Ohio State St. Johns Ohio State St. Johns LSU
18 Georgia Colorado Arizona State Virginia Ohio State
19 Texas A&M Virginia Tech  LSU Arizona State Kansas
20 St. Johns Memphis Okalahoma State Michigan State BYU
21 LSU   Texas A&M Central Florida Purdue
22 Purdue   West Virginia Georgia Georgia
23 BYU   Georgia LSU St. Johns
24 Arizona State   Kansas Maryland Illinois
25 Oregon State     San Diego West Virginia

 

 

September, 28 2009

 
Whitney Weinraub, Junior, forward, Charlotte

Scored 3 goals this past weekend 2 in a win over Fordham and 1 in a win over Duquesne.
Mollie Patton, Junior, Goalie, South Carolina

Set a new South Carolina shutout record as the  Gamecocks defeated Kentucky 1-0 Sunday.
Tabitha Padgett, Freshman, Forward, UNC Greensboro

Scored for the third game in a row in a 3-0 victory over Wofford.

Alyssa Rich, Freshman, Forward, UNC

Scored the game-winner this past Thursday in overtime against Duke and scored another in a win over Wake Forest on Sunday.
Tiffany McCarty, Sophomore, Forward, Florida State

Has 2 goals and an assist this week in wins against 2 top 10 ranked teams. She had 1 goal in a 2 to 1 win over Maryland on Thursday and a goal and an assist in a 3-2 victory over Boston College on Sunday.
Vikki Alonzo, Sophomore, Goalie, Miami

Recorded her 15th career shutout in a 2 -0 victory over maryland. The shutout breaks a tie  for the most shutouts in school history.
 
Laura Heyboer, Sophomore, Forward, Michigan State

Scored just over four minutes into overtime as the Michigan State women's soccer team defeated Penn State, 3-2, on Sunday. Also, scored the game tying goal in a 1-1 tie with Eastern Michigan.
Amanda Pasciolla, Senior Forward, St. John's

Scored the golden goal in the 96th minute lifted the  St. John's women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over Connecticut on Thursday.

Kristin Russell, Sophomore, Goalie, St. John's

She made seven saves on 17 shots faced and made numerous defensive stops by coming out of net to cut off UConn scoring attempts in a 1 to 0 over time victory.
Elise Kuhar-Pitters, Sophomore, Goalie, Memphis

Recorded her second shutout of the weekend in a 1 to 0 victory over UCF. She now has 5 shutouts on the season.
Noelle Pineiro, Sophomore, Forward, South Florida

Had a goal and an assist in a 2 to 1 victory of West Virginia. This was the first ever win over West Virginia for the Bulls.
 
 
 
 

 

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