The 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 38th season of NCAA championship women's college soccer.

Preseason

Coaching changes

New stadiums opening

New programs

The Merrimack Warriors began the transition from Division II to Division I and joined the Northeast Conference.

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...

announced in October 2018 that its two then-current athletic programs—the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and the Division II

LIU Post Pioneers The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams that represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, located in Brookville, New York, in NCAA Division II intercolleg ...

—would merge into a single Division I athletic program under the LIU name after the 2018–19 school year. The unified program, which maintains LIU Brooklyn's Division I and Northeast Conference memberships, announced its new nickname of Sharks on May 15, 2019. With both campuses sponsoring women's soccer, the two teams became a single LIU team based at the Post campus in Nassau County, New York in the 2019 season. Three schools that sponsor women's soccer began transitions from Division II in the 2020–21 school year. Bellarmine joinrf the

ASUN Conference The ASUN Conference, formerly the Atlantic Sun Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and began sponsoring football at the Divisio ...

, Dixie State joined the Western Athletic Conference, and UC San Diego will join the Big West Conference.

Rebranded programs

In addition to LIU, one other Division I women's soccer program assumed a new athletic identity during the 2018–19 offseason. On July 1, 2019, the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) announced that its athletic program, previously known as the UMKC Kangaroos, would henceforth be known as the Kansas City Roos, with "Roos" having long been used as a short form of the historic "Kangaroos" nickname.

Conference realignment

This was also the final season for four programs in their current conferences. The Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners and Kansas City Roos will both leave the Western Athletic Conference in July 2020, with the Roadrunners joining the Big West Conference and the Roos returning to their former conference home of the Summit League. At the same time, the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons will leave the Summit League for the Horizon League, and the UConn Huskies women's soccer, UConn Huskies will leave the American Athletic Conference to join several of their 2010–13 Big East Conference realignment, former Big East Conference (1979–2013), conference mates in the Big East Conference.

Season outlook

Preseason polls

Regular season

Major upsets

In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher. All rankings are from the United Soccer Coaches Poll.

Conference standings

Conference winners and tournaments

Postseason

NCAA Tournament

Final rankings

Award winners

All-America teams

Major player of the year awards

* Hermann Trophy: * TopDrawerSoccer.com National Player of the Year Award:

Other major awards

* United Soccer Coaches College Coach of the Year: * Bill Jeffrey Award: * Glenn Myernick Award: * Jerry Yeagley Award: * Mike Berticelli Award: * NCAA Tournament MVP:

References

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