Women’s NCAA 2024 season

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It’s almost time for the season to start. Best New England team, most likely to qualify for NCAAS’s? National perspective? I got

1. Brown
2. Uconn
3. Harvard

Nationally
1. FSU
2. Stanford
3….everyone else

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Wow, there is someone else here who cares about National College Soccer rather than just BC and a few other local teams. From your initial post I assume D1 is your cup of tea? As far as your lists, overall OK. Haven’t looked into PC yet. Also will be interesting who will replace AD at UNC and what that will do to them.

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It’s almost time for the season to start. Best New England team, most likely to qualify for NCAAS’s? National perspective? I got

1. Brown
2. Uconn
3. Harvard

Nationally
1. FSU
2. Stanford
3….everyone else

Brown only New England school to get votes in the preseason National Poll. UConn is ranked 2 in the Big East with PC at 5. BC is tied for 14 with SMU?! In the ACC poll.

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Northeastern, Maine, UMass-Lowell all have good chances to qualify by default.

Nationally, I see UCLA in the mix

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I don't see how Brown will be able to maintain the same level of excellence after losing a player who has scored 1//2 of the teams goals over the past three years. 1 versus 2 in goals scored last year was 13 vs 3.

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I don't see how Brown will be able to maintain the same level of excellence after losing a player who has scored 1//2 of the teams goals over the past three years. 1 versus 2 in goals scored last year was 13 vs 3.

I agree...like Brown is the default answer until anyone proves otherwise.

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I think BU qualifies for post season play out of the Patriot.

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Wow, there is someone else here who cares about National College Soccer rather than just BC and a few other local teams. From your initial post I assume D1 is your cup of tea? As far as your lists, overall OK. Haven’t looked into PC yet. Also will be interesting who will replace AD at UNC and what that will do to them.

AD will be replaced by a UNC alum or current staff member, can’t imagine they go outside the org. Follow Duke’s lead (Church—> Hall) and their success with their young women’s Lax coach. Either way its nice to see UNC come back to the middle, disaster of an offseason for them.

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AD will be replaced by a UNC alum or current staff member, can’t imagine they go outside the org. Follow Duke’s lead (Church—> Hall) and their success with their young women’s Lax coach. Either way its nice to see UNC come back to the middle, disaster of an offseason for them.

yeah this looked really obvious three months ago. There was a rash of transfers and girls going pro; only had 12 players on their spring roster! The assumption was he was heading out so players were jumping. When it didn't happen, I thought maybe that was incorrect.

But, for him to retire less than a week before the first game is wild.

I expect every long-term coach to be looking to get out. They all may not, but they all have to be thinking this isn't the game I was involved in for so long.

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I don't see how Brown will be able to maintain the same level of excellence after losing a player who has scored 1//2 of the teams goals over the past three years. 1 versus 2 in goals scored last year was 13 vs 3.

Rough scrimmage against UMass Amherst on Monday. Finished in a 2-2 tie but UMass carried play. Brown's taken a step back.

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UConn will come out of the Big East and will grab one of their two NCAA bids (along with Xavier). Georgetown lost a lot from last year.

Don't count on many at large bids from the Northeast. Normally only Ivy and BE get them anyway, but expect no more than 3 in total to make the tourney besides the conference winners. It will be all SEC, ACC, and Big Whatever making it.

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How about D3? Will Tufts get back to the Final Four? MIT, Amherst or Williams ready to make a run?

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For most D1 programs today is the start of the season. The grind, the peaks and valleys of a long season begins today. For a student-athlete this is what all these young women have worked so hard for starting at an early age. Hope you TS parents recognize it was the journey that has made these young ladies what they are today, student/athletes. TS parents appreciate this accomplishment and whatever happens on the soccer field is “playing with house money:!!! You all know what I mean.

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How about D3? Will Tufts get back to the Final Four? MIT, Amherst or Williams ready to make a run?

Start a D3 thread. Need instructions?

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For most D1 programs today is the start of the season. The grind, the peaks and valleys of a long season begins today. For a student-athlete this is what all these young women have worked so hard for starting at an early age. Hope you TS parents recognize it was the journey that has made these young ladies what they are today, student/athletes. TS parents appreciate this accomplishment and whatever happens on the soccer field is “playing with house money:!!! You all know what I mean.

For some, many, a few....it's the start of the beginning of the end. You bought what was being sold. You worked hard in the offseason, showed up in what you thought was great shape, got a little reality over the last 2-6 weeks, and are ready to go with your impressive resume. What you are about to realize is you are now no longer the superstar on your team or in your town. Everyone on the roster was. You will constantly be thinking "I never get a chance" without realizing you are getting your chance every minute of every day and it's up to you to show you are better.

It's a complete kick in the chops for some, and it will get rough for you. Hang in there, keep working hard and run YOUR journey. Don't worry about your ex-teammate killing it at another school, or your other members in your class in another position seeing time you are not. Wake up every day determined to improve from yesterday, be your best, and if it doesn't work out be secure in the knowledge you became your best you. And, most important...you are a STUDENT-ATHLETE.

You will second-guess your decision. You will utter the "I wanna transfer" early on. Your parents will think "my kid is just as good as that one, why aren't they playing?" For the first time, some parents are the ones with their kid not playing, and they will think about all those they came across over the years now in the position you are in and, hopefully, you deal with the humility with grace. Be patient, enjoy the perks of being a D1 athlete and if you are getting some financial incentives, be thrilled with that. Some schools carry rosters of 28, 30, 32+ players. There's eleven on the pitch, and likely no more than 15-18 will play at any given game. The math is not in everyone's favor. Be the best teammate you can be and, at all times, be ready. BE READY.

If you wanted to continue to play and be the superstar that you were, you wouldn't be where you are today. You made a decision to try to push yourself to be your best vs taking an easier path. No matter what happens over the next week, month, season...career, you are setting yourself up to achieve your best self for the rest of your life.


Sean-Paul Thomas — 'Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.'