2020 Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer team

2020 Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer
2020 Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Record	8–9–0 (4–4–0 ACC)
Head coach	Charles Adair (10th season);
Assistant coaches	Drew Kopp (9th season); Matt Gwilliam (6th season);
Home stadium	Thompson Field
	Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

Last updated August 24, 2023

2020 ACC women's soccer standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
No. 2 Florida State ‍†‍‡‍^y	8	–	0	–	0	1.000	13	–	0	–	3	.906
No. 3 North Carolina ‍†‍‍^y	8	–	0	–	0	1.000	18	–	2	–	0	.900
No. 4 Virginia ‍‍‍^y	5	–	2	–	1	.688	14	–	4	–	3	.738
No. 6 Clemson ‍‍‍^y	5	–	3	–	0	.625	12	–	5	–	2	.684
No. 7 Duke ‍‍‍^y	4	–	2	–	2	.625	12	–	5	–	4	.667
Louisville ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	5	–	7	–	0	.417
Virginia Tech ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	8	–	9	–	0	.471
Notre Dame ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	6	–	7	–	0	.462
Wake Forest ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	1	.438	5	–	7	–	2	.429
Pittsburgh ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0	.375	11	–	5	–	0	.688
Boston College ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	0	.125	3	–	10	–	1	.250
Syracuse ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	0	.125	1	–	7	–	0	.125
Miami ‍‍‍	0	–	8	–	0	.000	1	–	11	–	1	.115
NC State ‍‍‍	0	–	0	–	0	–	5	–	3	–	1	.611


† – Conference champion ‡ – 2020 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of May 18, 2021 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC Note: † Due to COVID-19, NC State suspended the 2020 women's fall soccer season. They did participate in the spring season.

The 2020 Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer team represented Virginia Tech during the 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. It was the 28th season of the university fielding a program and 17th competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hokies were led by 10th year head coach Charles Adair and played their home games at Thompson Field.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACC played a reduced schedule in 2020 and the NCAA Tournament was postponed to 2021.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

The Hokies finished the fall season 5–8–0, 4–4–0 in ACC play to finish in a tie for sixth place. They were awarded the seventh seed in the ACC Tournament based on tiebreakers. In the tournament they lost to North Carolina in the Quarterfinals. They finished the spring season 3–1–0 and were not invited to the NCAA Tournament.

Previous season

The Hokies finished the season 12–5–2, 4–4–2 in ACC play to finish in a tie for eight place. They were not invited to the ACC Tournament. They received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they lost to Xavier in the First Round.

Squad

Roster

Updated: February 11, 2021^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
0	MF	USA	Kiersten Hening
1	GK	USA	Alia Skinner
2	MF	USA	Riley McCarthy
3	FW	USA	Kendal Feighan
4	MF	USA	Emily Gray
5	FW	USA	Ayden Yates
9	FW	USA	Emma Steigerwald
10	FW	UKR	Nicole Kozlova
11	MF	USA	Grace Sklopan
12	FW	USA	Tori Powell
13	FW	USA	Karlie Johnson
16	MF	USA	Erin Carleton


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	MF	USA	Holly Rose Webber
20	DF	USA	Victoria Haugen
21	DF	USA	Averi Visage
22	FW	USA	Taylor Bryan
23	FW	USA	Kate Bonshak
24	FW	USA	Emmalee McCarter
25	FW	USA	Calista Heister
26	FW	USA	Molly Feighan
27	DF	USA	Ava Veith
28	MF	USA	Makenzie Graham
30	GK	USA	S.A. Phillips

Team management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Charles Adair
Associate Head Coach	Drew Kopp
Assistant coach	Matt Gwilliam

Source:^[4]

Schedule

Source:^[5]^[6]

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Fall Regular season
September 12, 2020* 6:00 p.m.		Virginia	L 1–3	0–1–0	Klöckner Stadium (243) Charlottesville, VA
September 17, 2020 7:00 p.m.		at No. 3 Clemson	L 0–3	0–2–0 (0–1–0)	Riggs Field (227) Clemson, SC
September 20, 2020 11:00 a.m.		at No. 1 North Carolina	L 0–1	0–3–0 (0–2–0)	Dorrance Field (0) Chapel Hill, NC
September 25* 6:00 p.m., ACCNX		No. 11 Virginia	L 0–1 ^OT	0–4–0	Thompson Field (122) Blackburg, VA
October 1 8:00 p.m., ACCN		No. 2 Florida State	L 0–4	0–5–0 (0–3–0)	Thompson Field (124) Blacksburg, VA
October 4, 2020 3:00 p.m.		No. 14 Pittsburgh	W 2–0	1–5–0 (1–3–0)	Thompson Field (137) Blacksburg, VA
October 9, 2020* 7:00 p.m., ACCNX		at No. 7 Duke	L 0–2	1–6–0	Koskinen Stadium (0) Durham, NC
October 15, 2020 7:00 p.m.		Miami (FL)	W 8–2	2–6–0 (2–3–0)	Thompson Field (150) Blacksburg, VA
October 18, 2020 2:00 p.m., FS Go		No. 13 Louisville	L 0–1	2–7–0 (2–4–0)	Thompson Field (161) Blacksburg, VA
October 24, 2020* 4:00 p.m.		Navy	W 2–1	3–7–0	Thompson Field (229) Blacksburg, VA
October 29, 2020 7:00 p.m.		at Wake Forest	W 4–3	4–7–0 (3–4–0)	Spry Stadium (100) Winston-Salem, NC
November 1, 2020 1:00 p.m.		at Boston College	W 3–0	5–7–0 (4–4–0)	Newton Campus Soccer Field (0) Chestnut Hill, MA
ACC Tournament
November 10, 2020 5:30 p.m., ACCN	(7)	vs. (2) No. 1 North Carolina Quarterfinals	L 0–1	5–8–0	Sahlen's Stadium (251) Cary, NC
Spring Regular season
March 7, 2021* 5:00 p.m.		at Charlotte	W 2–1	6–8–0	Transamerica Field (299) Charlotte, NC
March 20, 2021* 5:00 p.m.		William & Mary	W 3–0	7–8–0	Thompson Field (600) Blacksburg, VA
April 1, 2021* 7:00 p.m.		at Liberty	W 5–3	8–8–0	Osborne Stadium (70) Lynchburg, VA
April 17, 2021* 2:30 p.m.		vs. Auburn	L 1–4	8–9–0	Van Taylor Stadium (0) Greenwood, SC
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Rankings

Fall 2020

Ranking movement
**Legend:**██ Improvement in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Others receiving votes.
Poll	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Final
United Soccer ^[7]

Spring 2021

Ranking movement
**Legend:**██ Improvement in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Others receiving votes.
Poll	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Final
United Soccer ^[7]	None Released				RV	RV							None Released
TopDrawer Soccer ^[8]

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