American Athletic Conference women's soccer tournament explained

American Athletic Conference
women's soccer tournament
Optional Subheader:Conference soccer championship
Sport:College soccer
Conference:American Athletic
Number Of Teams:8
Format:Single-elimination
Years:2013–present
Most Recent:2024
Current Champion:East Carolina
Most Championships:Memphis (4)
Television:ESPN+

The American Athletic Conference women's soccer tournament is the conference championship tournament in soccer for the American Athletic Conference. The tournament has been held every year since the split from the Big East Conference in 2013. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.

Format

The teams are seeded based on the order of finish in the conference's round robin regular season. Tiebreakers begin with the result of the head-to-head matchup. The teams are then placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed playing the lowest seed, until meeting in a final championship game. After two overtime period, ties are broken by shootout rounds, with the winner of the shootout advancing.

Champions

By year

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1 2013 UCF (1) 0–0 Tatiana Coleman, UCF Jessica Janosz, Rutgers
2 2014 Connecticut (1) 0–0 Rachel Hill, Connecticut Emily Armstrong, Connecticut
3 Cincinnati (1) 1–1 Jaycie Brown, Cincinnati Vanessa Gilles, Cincinnati
4 Connecticut (2) 1–0 Rachel Hill, Connecticut Toriana Paterson, Connecticut
5 South Florida (1) 0–0 Evelyne Viens, South Florida Kat Elliott, South Florida
6 Memphis (1) 3–0 Clarissa Larise, Memphis Chanel Hudson-Marks, Memphis
7 South Florida (2) 2–1 Evelyne Viens, South Florida Sydney Martinez, South Florida
8 2020South Florida (3)4–0CincinnatiTampa, FLSydny Nasello, South FloridaSydney Martinez, South Florida
9 2021 (2)0–0 Tampa, FLSaorla Miller, MemphisElizabeth Moberg, Memphis
10 2022 (3)1–0 Orlando, FLShae Taylor, MemphisClaire Wyville, Memphis
11 2023 (4)2–1Premier Sports Campus Lakewood Ranch, FLMya Jones, MemphisSarah Hagg, Memphis
12 2024 (1)1–0 Premier Sports Campus Lakewood Ranch, FLAnnabelle Abbott, East CarolinaMaeve English, East Carolina

By school

This table of championship statistics is updated after each event. It is current as of the end of the 2024 Tournament.[1]

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2 1 2 0 0 0
Cincinnati 8 3 6 2 2 1 2015
Connecticut 5 5 3 1 2 2 2014, 2016
8 4 7 2 1 1 2024
1 1 1 0 0 0
Houston 3 0 3 0 0 0
Louisville 1 0 1 0 0 0
12 16 7 2 6 4 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
1 0 1 0 0 0
1 1 1 0 0 0
Rutgers 1 1 0 2 1 0
SMU 9 10 7 2 3 0
12 13 5 6 6 3 2017, 2019, 2020
4 0 4 0 0 0
4 0 4 0 0 0
2 0 2 0 0 0
UCF 9 6 5 5 3 1 2013
0 0 0 0 0 0
Teams in italics no longer sponsor women's soccer in the American.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020 American Women's Soccer Record Book . . 3 Apr 2020 . theamerican.org . . 7 Jul 2020 .