2022 Summit League women's soccer season

2022 Summit League women's soccer season
2022 Summit League women's soccer season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	10
Regular Season
Regular season champions	Denver
2022 Summit League Tournament
Champions	Omaha
Runners-up	Oral Roberts
Seasons
	← 2021 2023 →

Last updated February 07, 2024

2022 Summit League women's soccer standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Denver ‍†‍‍	8	–	0	–	1	.944	11	–	4	–	4	.684
South Dakota St ‍‍‍	7	–	0	–	2	.889	13	–	1	–	5	.816
Omaha ‍‍‡‍^y	4	–	2	–	3	.611	7	–	9	–	6	.455
Oral Roberts ‍‍‍	4	–	5	–	0	.444	10	–	9	–	3	.523
North Dakota St ‍‍‍	4	–	5	–	0	.444	8	–	9	–	3	.475
South Dakota ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	2	.444	4	–	9	–	5	.361
North Dakota ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	2	.444	7	–	9	–	4	.450
St. Thomas* ‍‍‍	2	–	6	–	1	.278	6	–	8	–	3	.441
Kansas City ‍‍‍	1	–	5	–	3	.278	2	–	11	–	5	.250
Western Illinois ‍‍‍	2	–	7	–	0	.222	4	–	10	–	3	.324
* Ineligible for the 2022 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division III

† – Conference champion ‡ – 2022 Summit League Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 6, 2022 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source:Summit League

The 2022 Summit League women's soccer season started non-conference play on August 10, 2022, and began conference play on September 23, 2022. The regular season ended on October 23, 2022. The Summit League tournament began on October 28, 2022 and ended on November 5, 2022 with Omaha winning the championship game in penalties. The Mavericks then went on to the NCAA tournament and lost to Notre Dame.^[1]^[2]

Conference Changes

Following last year's tournament, the conference announced that the 2022 tournament would expand to six teams.

Head Coaches

Coaching Changes

Oral Roberts

On November 4, 2021, Oral Roberts head coach Roger Bush resigned and was replaced on December 10, 2021 by coach Austin Risenhoover.

Western Illinois

On February 15, 2022, Western Illinois announced Josee Primeau was promoted to head coach from her previous role within Dr. Eric Johnson's staff, the previous coach.

Coaches

Team	Head Coach	Previous Job	Years At School	Record at School	Summit League Record	Summit League Titles	NCAA Tournaments
Denver	Jeff Hooker	No Previous Job	30	393-163-53	194-34-16	4	11
Kansas City	Jess Smith	KC Fusion SC (Director of Girls)	3	10-25-1	8-16-1	0	0
Omaha	Tim Walters	Omaha (Men - Assistant)	6	36-45-12	23-19-6	1	1
North Dakota	Chris Logan	Northern Iowa	6	33-44-8	13-25-1	0	0
North Dakota State	Mike Regan	Indiana (Assistant)	5	35-43-8	23-24-3	0	0
Oral Roberts	Austin Risenhoover	California (Assistant)	1	0-0-0	0-0-0	0	0
St. Thomas	Sheila McGill	St. Catherine (Assistant)	16	158-73-29^	2-7-0	0	0^^
South Dakota	Michael Thomas	Cal State Fullerton (Assistant)	5	37-27-9	24-10-1	0	0
South Dakota State	Brock Thompson	South Dakota State (Assistant)	6	67-20-12	40-3-4	2	2
Western Illinois	Josee Primeau	Western Illinois (Assistant)	1	0-0-0	0-0-0	0	0

Notes:

Year at school includes 2022 season.
Overall and Summit League records are from the time at their current school and through the end of the 2021 season.
NCAA tournament appearances are from the time at current school only.

^154 wins, 62 losses, and 28 ties at the Division III level

^^6 NCAA tournament appearances at the Division III level

Preseason Awards

The Preseason Summit League women's soccer polls were released on August 16, 2022.^[3]

Preseason women's soccer polls

First Place Votes in Parentheses

Denver (6) - 78
South Dakota State (4) - 76
Omaha - 63
South Dakota - 57
Western Illinois - 45
Kansas City - 37
Oral Roberts - 37
St. Thomas - 26
North Dakota State - 17
North Dakota - 14

Regular season

Conference standings

		Conference		Overall
Rank	Team	Record	Points	Record	Percent	Tiebreaker
1	Denver	8-0-1	25	11-4-4	0.684
2	South Dakota State	7-0-2	23	13-1-5	0.816
3	Omaha	4-2-3	15	7-9-6	0.455
4	Oral Roberts	4-5-0	12	10-9-3	0.523	Head-to-head over NDSU
5	North Dakota State	4-5-0	12	8-9-3	0.475
6	South Dakota	3-4-2	11	4-9-5	0.361	Head-to-head over UND
7	North Dakota	3-4-2	11	7-9-4	0.450
8	St. Thomas	2-6-1	7	6-8-3	0.441
9	Kansas City	1-5-3	6	2-11-5	0.250
10	Western Illinois	2-7-0	6	4-10-3	0.324

Source:^[4]

Conference Matrix

	Denver	Kansas City	North Dakota	North Dakota State	Omaha	Oral Roberts	St. Thomas	South Dakota	South Dakota State	Western Illinois
vs. Denver	–	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0-1	0–1
vs. Kansas City	1–0	–	0–0-1	1–0	0–0-1	1–0	0–0-1	0–1	1–0	0–1
vs. North Dakota	1–0	0–0-1	–	1–0	0–0-1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
vs. North Dakota State	1–0	0–1	0–1	–	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1
vs. Omaha	1–0	0–0-1	0–0-1	0–1	–	0–1	0–1	0–0-1	1–0	0–1
vs. Oral Roberts	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	–	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1
vs. St. Thomas	1–0	0–0-1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	–	1–0	1–0	1–0
vs. South Dakota	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0-1	0–1	0–1	–	0–0-1	0–1
vs. South Dakota State	0–0-1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0-1	–	0–1
vs. Western Illinois	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	–
Total	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0

Players of the Week

Week^[5]	Offensive Player of the Week	School	Defensive Player of the Week	School
August 22	Amy Andrews	Western Illinois	Nerea Arrazola	Denver
August 29	Annaliese Guisto	Oral Roberts	Kaycee Manding	South Dakota State
September 6	Cece Limongi	South Dakota State	Jocelyn Tanner	South Dakota State (2)
September 12	Sami Feller	Denver	Ashleigh Heely	North Dakota State
September 19	Katherine Jones	South Dakota State (2)	Abby Wilkinson	North Dakota State (2)
September 26	McKenna Lehman	St. Thomas	Nerea Arrazola (2)	Denver (2)
October 3	Hannah Olson	North Dakota	Madi Livingston	North Dakota
October 10	Maya Hansen	South Dakota State (2)	Gabrielle Abbey	Oral Roberts
October 17	Laney Murdzek	South Dakota State (3)	Abby Wilkinson (2)	North Dakota State (3)
October 24	Kaitlyn Glover	Denver (2)	Rachel Preston	South Dakota State

Record against other conferences

Power 7 Conferences	Record	Power 7 Conferences	Record
ACC	None	American	0-1-1
Big East	0-3-1	Big Ten	0-2-0
Big 12	1-4-1	Pac-12	0-4-2
SEC	0-0-1	Major 7 Total	1-14-6
Other Division I Conferences	Record	Other Division I Conferences	Record
Atlantic 10	0-2-0	ASUN	0-2-0
America East	None	Big Sky	4-9-5
Big South	None	Big West	None
Colonial	None	Conference USA	0-1-0
Horizon League	3-1-2	Ivy League	None
MAAC	None	MAC	0-1-1
MEAC	None	MVC	6-4-3
MWC	1-3-3	NEC	None
OVC	3-0-0	Patriot League	None
SoCon	None	Southland	1-0-0
SWAC	3-0-1	Sun Belt	0-1-1
WAC	4-0-1	WCC	1-0-0
Other Division I Total			26-24-17

NCAA Division I Total			27-38-23
NCAA Division II Total			3-0-0
NCAA Division III Total			None
NAIA Total			2-0-0
NCCAA Total			1-0-0
Total Non-Conference Record			33-38-23

All-League Honors

Honor	Recipient
Offensive Player of the Year	Maya Hansen, South Dakota State
Midfielder of the Year	Sami Feller, Denver
Defensive Player of the Year	Devan McSwain, Denver
Goalkeeper of the Year	Jocelyn Tanner, South Dakota State
Newcomer of the Year	Mariah Nguyen, St. Thomas
Coach of the Year	Jeff Hooker, Denver
All-Summit League First Team	Amy Andrews (F), Western Illinois
	Sami Feller (MF), Denver
	Kaitlyn Glover (MF), Denver
	Maya Hansen (F), South Dakota State
	Camryn MacMillan (F), Denver
	Karlee Manding (MF), South Dakota State
	Kaycee Manding (D), South Dakota State
	Devan McSwain (D), Denver
	Laney Murdzek (MF), South Dakota State
	Jocelyn Tanner (GK), South Dakota State
	Regan Zimmers (D), Omaha
All-Summit League Second Team	Reagan Anderson (MF), South Dakota State
	Nerea Arrazola (GK), Denver
	Riley Baker (D), Denver
	Jordan Crockett (D), Denver
	Paige Goaley (F), North Dakota State
	Addisyn Hyrup (F), Denver
	Hayley Lindaman (D), South Dakota State
	Madi Livingston (GK), North Dakota
	Avery Murdzek (MF), South Dakota State
	Hannah Olson (F), North Dakota
	Grace Ostergaard (MF), Omaha
All-Summit League Honorable Mention	Gabrielle Abbey (D), Oral Roberts
	Annie Bantner (GK), St. Thomas
	Hannah Gallegos (D), Denver
	Samantha Guzman (MF), Oral Roberts
	Cece Limongi (F), South Dakota State
	Sophia Limongi (D), Kansas City
	Rachel Preston (D), South Dakota State
	Taylor Ravelo (D), South Dakota
	Julia Thasaphong (F), Oral Roberts
	Jordyn West (D), Omaha
	Abby Wilkinson (GK), North Dakota State
Summit League All-Newcomer Team	Lindsey Birch (D), Omaha
	Lauren Eckerle (MF), South Dakota State
	Ariana Fresquez (D), Oral Roberts
	Emma Konsmo (GK), Omaha
	Abril Lucio (MF), Oral Roberts
	Sarah McCracken (MF), North Dakota
	Madelyn Muhr (D), Kansas City
	Mariah Nguyen (F), St. Thomas
	Madison Page (F), Kansas City
	Julia Thasaphong (F), Oral Roberts
	Elana Webber (MF), North Dakota State

Source:^[6]

Conference Tournament

Source:^[7]

Quarterfinals October 28, 2022			Semifinals October 30, 2022			Final November 5, 2022

			1	Denver	0 (2)
4	Oral Roberts (a.e.t.)	2	4	Oral Roberts (PK's)	0 (3)
5	North Dakota State	1				4	Oral Roberts	0 (1)
						3	Omaha (PK's)	0 (3)
			2	South Dakota State	0
3	Omaha	1	3	Omaha	1
6	North Dakota	0

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