2019 Women's D1 Soccer Talk!!!!

MakeAPlay said:
In my opinion Arizona will take a step backwards after making the tournament last year. It is going to be a struggle for them to make it to the tournament but it is possible. My prediction for them is 6th to 9th place. On the flip side I think that Arizona State will take a step forward. They were one of the last teams out of the tournament and I think that this year they get in. Their coach has brought in a lot of international talent and they were much improved last season when they relied upon a lot of freshman. They lose two important seniors, but I think that they are going to be better this year and will finish somewhere between 4th and 6th in the conference.

Here is how I think that it is going to shake out:

UCLA
Stanford
$C
Colorado
Arizona State
Wazzu
Utah
Cal
Arizona
UDub
Oregon
Oregon State

I think that the conference gets 7 or 8 into the dance with 3 having serious aspirations to be playing in San Jose in early December. 4 other teams have legitimate Sweet 16 potential with a good draw. 17 days until Stanford kicks off the exhibitions season! Good luck this season to any and all who have a player in college at any level. It is going to be a good one.
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Top 4 I agree plus I throw WSU in the top 5, after that ASU has no chance IMO, they lost their goalie to Oklahoma and by far their best field player to graduation. The goalies they have now are not good, don't want to be mean but actually terrible and now they have to step up to the PAC 12, that's going to be a big problem. Neither understands the game well enough to communicate to the back line. position themselves properly, and are below average shot stoppers. They also have no one that can put the ball in the back of the net. I don't know how many foreign players they have coming in but i put them at or near the bottom. Oregon is my sleeper, they have a decent class coming in including two 4 stars, but if Oregon and Kat have a bad year she will be on the hot seat.

Hot seat for coaches for Pac 12
Cal
Oregon
Maybe
Washington and ASU if they have really bad years
 
beachbum said:
Top 4 I agree plus I throw WSU in the top 5, after that ASU has no chance IMO, they lost their goalie to Oklahoma and by far their best field player to graduation. The goalies they have now are not good, don't want to be mean but actually terrible and now they have to step up to the PAC 12, that's going to be a big problem. Neither understands the game well enough to communicate to the back line. position themselves properly, and are below average shot stoppers. They also have no one that can put the ball in the back of the net. I don't know how many foreign players they have coming in but i put them at or near the bottom. Oregon is my sleeper, they have a decent class coming in including two 4 stars, but if Oregon and Kat have a bad year she will be on the hot seat.

Hot seat for coaches for Pac 12
Cal
Oregon
Maybe
Washington and ASU if they have really bad years
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I disagree about ASU. Their two foreign forwards were two of the best freshman in the conference and both play on their countries YNT. Oregon's recruiting class is far below the rest of the conference and after losing 6 starters and two pro players from a bad team they are only going to get worse. Wazzu is middle of the pack at best. They lost their entire defense except one player and you might have noticed that it was their defense that kept them in games last year not their offense.

I have been studying these teams extensively over the last 5 years and ASU and Colorado will be fighting it out for 4th and the other will finish 5th. Everybody else is playing for 6th place. I just hope that what I am seeing near the top is accurate.

Good luck to you and your player.
 
outside! said:
As I have researched the different fitness tests (Beep, ManU, Cooper), it is interesting how much variation particular tests have from school to school. It almost seems as if the results are basically only comparable inside each team. I have found multiple descriptions of the ManU and Beep regarding how far apart the lines are, and DD's school has a set distance for the Cooper (which is basically what the coach considers to be passing).
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Take any results with a grain of salt. Their are plenty of players that kill it on the beep test but are winded after 15 minutes of actual gameplay. Many different types of sprinting. For a defender what matters is your high intensity sprints. I know that my player and her team get emailed results fro their GPS that shows total distance covered, top speed reached and number of high intensity sprints and she is usually middle of the pack in terms of distance covered but is always at the top when it comes to high intensity sprints and top speed.

Good luck to you and your player.
 
beachbum said:
They also have no one that can put the ball in the back of the net.

Hot seat for coaches for Pac 12
Cal
Oregon
Maybe
Washington and ASU if they have really bad years
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Why do you think this? The 2 leading goal scorers were Freshman and the goals leader only played in 14 games. No way is the coach on the hot seat, this is a young team and needs time RA gets this. I'll admit the goalie situation isn't the best, but It will be fine. 11 new incoming Freshman for 2019.
 
azsnowrider said:
Why do you think this? The 2 leading goal scorers were Freshman and the goals leader only played in 14 games. No way is the coach on the hot seat, this is a young team and needs time RA gets this. I'll admit the goalie situation isn't the best, but It will be fine. 11 new incoming Freshman for 2019.
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I think they are in trouble defensively do to the situation with the goalies and losing Boyle. I thought Purfield was the engine, workhorse and leader that was everything to that team . I do like the transfer defender from Santa Clara ( hard worker, tough and never gives up) but defensively i still think they will struggle. The 2 freshman I thought were nothing special, no goals against any tougher competition and the recruiting class is not very good. I thought ASU out performed last year and will take a big step back this year. But that is why they play the games, doesn't really matter what we think. I wish them the best, i like the coach and think he has got the right idea about how to play soccer, but he isn't getting the best girls in the state to stay and doesn't seem like he's pulling any top talent from Socal, so i think his team is in for a rough road playing in the PAC 12
 
beachbum said:
I think they are in trouble defensively do to the situation with the goalies and losing Boyle. I thought Purfield was the engine, workhorse and leader that was everything to that team . I do like the transfer defender from Santa Clara ( hard worker, tough and never gives up) but defensively i still think they will struggle. The 2 freshman I thought were nothing special, no goals against any tougher competition and the recruiting class is not very good. I thought ASU out performed last year and will take a big step back this year. But that is why they play the games, doesn't really matter what we think. I wish them the best, i like the coach and think he has got the right idea about how to play soccer, but he isn't getting the best girls in the state to stay and doesn't seem like he's pulling any top talent from Socal, so i think his team is in for a rough road playing in the PAC 12
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He is pulling tons of international talent though! I thought that outside of Stanford, UCLA and Hocking for $C Schimmer and Douglas were the best two freshman that I saw in the conference. Both very technical, and yes the team plays the right way. Are they going to beat UCLA and Stanford? Nobody in the conference is going to beat those two, however, they are going to test $C and their rebuilt defense and based upon what I saw the last 4 years, this is the best team they have had since my kid has played them.

FYI, nobody in the conference outside of UCLA and Stanford are going to have good defenses. Only UCLA, $C and Stanford gave up less than 19 goals. Arizona State was actually .500 in conference with a 5-5-1 record and would have been a playoff team had they beaten Arizona.

Good luck to you and your player.
 
No hot seat at UW - Gallimore is retiring after this season.

She's a legend and anyone who cares about women's soccer should know how much she has meant to the game - from when she helped start the D1 program at Cal (as an undergraduate) to incredible longevity at UW (one of the longest-tenured women head-coaches in college soccer). I am sure that many on this site are well aware of her story.
 
dk_b said:
No hot seat at UW - Gallimore is retiring after this season.

She's a legend and anyone who cares about women's soccer should know how much she has meant to the game - from when she helped start the D1 program at Cal (as an undergraduate) to incredible longevity at UW (one of the longest-tenured women head-coaches in college soccer). I am sure that many on this site are well aware of her story.
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Legendary. She would keep her job at UW as long as she wanted regardless of her record. She has arguably done more than anyone ever to move women’s soccer forward
 
MakeAPlay said:
He is pulling tons of international talent though! I thought that outside of Stanford, UCLA and Hocking for $C Schimmer and Douglas were the best two freshman that I saw in the conference. Both very technical, and yes the team plays the right way. Are they going to beat UCLA and Stanford? Nobody in the conference is going to beat those two, however, they are going to test $C and their rebuilt defense and based upon what I saw the last 4 years, this is the best team they have had since my kid has played them.

FYI, nobody in the conference outside of UCLA and Stanford are going to have good defenses. Only UCLA, $C and Stanford gave up less than 19 goals. Arizona State was actually .500 in conference with a 5-5-1 record and would have been a playoff team had they beaten Arizona.

Good luck to you and your player.
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I can’t believe my friend MAP will not take a pm from me.
 
wow so there could be some jobs that could be opening up next year:

CAL
Oregon
UW
St. Mary's

I'm guessing those programs will be looking for "winning" coaches from the D1 level and conference Champion winners from D2.

Tracy Hamm - From UC Davis if she can get Davis into the playoffs and do some damage. She's a rising star I have heard ---any job

Tiffany Roberts - Done well at VCU and UCF-----CAL, Oregon or UW. I can see Oregon

Salzmann - from Sonoma State----long track record of success
 
WCC games vs. PAC-12

Santa Clara vs. Oregon, UCLA, Stanford, CAL and Arizona

Loyola vs. Wash State

USF vs. USC and Stanford

Gonzaga vs. Wash State

Portland vs. Oregon, CAL, Washington

BYU vs. Utah

Pepperdine vs. Stanford, UCLA, Washington State

USD vs. CAL, Utah , OSU
 
eastbaysoccer said:
WCC games vs. PAC-12

Santa Clara vs. Oregon, UCLA, Stanford, CAL and Arizona

Loyola vs. Wash State

USF vs. USC and Stanford

Gonzaga vs. Wash State

Portland vs. Oregon, CAL, Washington

BYU vs. Utah

Pepperdine vs. Stanford, UCLA, Washington State

USD vs. CAL, Utah , OSU
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Plenty of chances for the WCC to measure itself. It looks like only Colorado and the Arizona schools don't play at least one WCC team.
 
Colorado only has 24 players on their roster and 9 of them are freshman 1 is a transfer that didn't play much and 3 are keepers. That means 21 field players of which only 13 were in the program last year. They are going to be an interesting team to watch this year. They are going to have to gel quickly and many of their young players from last season are going to be forced into leadership roles.

Arizona State is looking more and more like a likely 4th place team. They aren't in the league of Stanford, UCLA or $C but seem to have more returning than Colorado and Arizona and they beat Washington and Wazzu last year. Utah returns 8 starters plus they get back a 9th player that was a starter before injury and they might turn out to be Arizona State's main competition for the 4th spot not Colorado or Arizona.

As usual there are several tiers of teams in the PAC 12 this season although there is quite a bit of a gap between the teams in each tier and the teams in the next tier down. It should be another interesting season and hopefully more this season will see closer to the 8 teams from the conference that got into the tournament in 2016 and less close to last season's meager (but strong) 5 team field.

Good luck to all who have players playing this season.
 
Wazzu is going to be pretty strong too and will be another team looking to slide into that 4th spot in the PAC 12. They return 8 starters and most of their key subs and they get a decent transfer from Stanford that could have an impact and their keeper that got injured early in the season was granted a 6th year of eligibility. They are going to be deep. Their only vulnerability will be them losing 2 defenders that were 4 year starters. They game plan was to defend and counter (they beat UCLA 1-0 while getting outshot 19-6 and tied Stanford 1-1 getting outshot 34-16 yet lost to Arizona getting outshot 15-7 amd Arizona State 15-14).

They have their work cut out for them figuring out their defensive starters but if they can do that they should have another return trip to the Sweet 16.
 
MakeAPlay said:
Colorado only has 24 players on their roster and 9 of them are freshman 1 is a transfer that didn't play much and 3 are keepers. That means 21 field players of which only 13 were in the program last year. They are going to be an interesting team to watch this year. They are going to have to gel quickly and many of their young players from last season are going to be forced into leadership roles.
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Colorado has a sophomore that played more minutes than any player on the team as a freshman. She is also a natural leader that is great at solving problems on the field. If they are smart she will be team captain as a sophomore. I would advise any player standing in front of her when she shoots to move out of the way.
 
outside! said:
Colorado has a sophomore that played more minutes than any player on the team as a freshman. She is also a natural leader that is great at solving problems on the field. If they are smart she will be team captain as a sophomore. I would advise any player standing in front of her when she shoots to move out of the way.
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They are an interesting case. I would imagine that Korniak and Thompson will be the captains as both are going into their 4th year as starters. They definitely have some talented sophomores on the team and they will definitely be contenders. They only gave up a goal a game. The only concern that I would have is figuring out how to navigate their schedule. They have a difficult setup with them opening conference play on the road against Arizona and then in the middle of conference play they go to UCLA and $C followed by 3 games in a row at home against Arizona State, Stanford and Cal. Those are 5 tough games in a row that would test any team. Last season Colorado collapsed down the stretch losing 4 games in a row and ending what was their best start to a season in quite an inglorious manner. They better figure out how to better navigate their tough stretch because just like last season they get the 3 best teams in the conference all in a row and this time they don't get the advantage of altitude and a home crowd.

Lot's of storylines to follow this season.
 
Final doctors appointment tomorrow and we fly out on Saturday to get my daughter to camp. She is running and kicking now with no pain. Been practicing with her club but no contact yet. Working hard on fitness but not fully fit yet which is understandable being a little over 5 months out from ACL surgery. I am excited but already sad.
 
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