The 2021 Pittsburgh Panthers women's soccer team represented
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
during the
2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer season
The 2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer season was the 40th season of National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA championship women's College soccer in the United States, college soccer.
Preseason Coaching changes
New programs
* On ...
. The Panthers were led by head coach
Randy Waldrum, in his fourth season. They played home games at
Ambrose Urbanic Field. This was the team's 26th season playing organized women's college soccer and their 9th playing in the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the ACC's eighteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athlet ...
.
The Panthers finished the season 11–7–0 overall, and 4–6–0 in
ACC play to finish in ninth place. They did not qualify for the
ACC Tournament and were not invited to the
NCAA Tournament.
Previous season
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
, the ACC played a reduced schedule in 2020 and the NCAA Tournament was postponed to 2021. The ACC did not play a spring league schedule, but did allow teams to play non-conference games that would count toward their 2020 record in the lead up to the NCAA Tournament.
The Panthers finished the fall season 9–5–0, 3–5–0 in
ACC play to finish in tenth place. They did not qualify for the
ACC Tournament. The team won both games of their extra spring season. They were not invited to the
NCAA Tournament.
Squad
Roster
Team management
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Schedule
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Rankings
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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh
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2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
Pittsburgh women's soccer
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