2024 MAAC women's soccer tournament

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2024 MAAC women's soccer tournament
Classification Division I
Teams8
Matches7
Attendance2,733
SiteCampus Sites, Hosted by Higher Seed
Champions Fairfield (8th title)
Winning coachDavid Barrett (1st title)
MVP Maddy Theriault (Fairfield)
Broadcast ESPN+
MAAC women's soccer tournament
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2024 MAAC women's soccer standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Fairfield  y1011 .8751831 .841
Quinnipiac  1020 .8331451 .725
Canisius  822 .7501243 .711
Siena  732 .6671082 .550
Manhattan  543 .5421073 .575
Merrimack  552 .500793 .447
Iona  462 .4176104 .400
Sacred Heart  354 .4173115 .289
Mount St. Mary's  363 .375693 .417
Rider  363 .375494 .353
Marist  372 .3333113 .265
Niagara  174 .250584 .412
St. Peter's  192 .1674112 .294
Conference champion
2024 MAAC Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of December 10, 2024
Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll
Source:MAAC

The 2024 MAAC women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference held from November 3 through November 10, 2024. The seven-match tournament took place at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting matches. The host for the matches was determined by seeding from regular season play. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Quinnipiac Bobcats were the defending champions. [1] [2] As the second seed, they made it to the final where they were defeated by Fairfield 1–0. [3] [4] This was Fairfield's eighth MAAC tournament win in program history, and first for head coach David Barrett. It was their first title since 2008 and the second year in a row that Fairfield and Quinnipiac contested the final. [5] As tournament champions, Fairfield earned the MAAC's automatic berth into the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament.

Contents

Seeding

The top eight MAAC teams from the regular season earned berths in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record. No tiebreakers were required as the top eight teams in the conference all finished with unique conference records. [6]

SeedSchoolConference RecordPoints
1 Fairfield 10–1–131
2 Quinnipiac 10–2–030
3 Canisius 8–2–226
4 Siena 7–3–223
5 Manhattan 5–4–318
6 Merrimack 5–5–217
7 Iona 4–6–214
8 Sacred Heart 3–5–413

Bracket

Source: [7]

Quarterfinals
Sunday, Nov. 3
Semifinals
Thursday, Nov. 7
Final
Sunday, Nov. 10
         
1 Fairfield 1
8 Sacred Heart 0
1 Fairfield4
5 Manhattan 1
4 Siena 0
5 Manhattan 1
1 Fairfield1
2 Quinnipiac 0
3 Canisius 2
6 Merrimack 0
2 Quinnipiac3
3 Canisius 1
2 Quinnipiac 1
7 Iona 0

Schedule

Quarterfinals

November 3, 2024 #2 Quinnipiac 1–0#7 Iona Hamden, CT
12:00 p.m. EST
  • Aisling Spillane Soccerball shade.svg53'
Report
  • Red card.svg 79' Myla Rodrigues
Stadium: Quinnipiac Soccer Stadium
Attendance: 334
Referee: Jan Halaska
Assistant referees: Alex Rusu
Assistant referees: Matthew Kue
Fourth official: Jeff Ardis
November 3, 2024 #1 Fairfield 1–0#8 Sacred Heart Fairfield, CT
1:00 p.m. EST
  • Reagan Klarmann Soccerball shade.svg58'
  • Maddy Theriault Yellow card.svg 85'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 52' Morgan Bovardi
  • Yellow card.svg 74' MacLaren Richards
  • Yellow card.svg 89' Kelly Medeiros
Stadium: Lessing Field
Attendance: 353
Referee: Tyler McElhinney
Assistant referees: Kyle O'Grady
Assistant referees: David Bork
Fourth official: Frank Severo
November 3, 2024 #3 Canisius 2–0#6 Merrimack Buffalo, NY
1:00 p.m. EST
  • Lizzy Harkness Soccerball shade.svg47'
  • Jessica Whitaker Yellow card.svg 71'
  • Madeline Weltin Soccerball shade.svg81'
  • Alicia Zamora Yellow card.svg 84'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 42' Jillian Golden
Stadium: Demske Sports Complex
Attendance: 359
Referee: Rabee Naji
Assistant referees: Ankur Singh
Assistant referees: David Rousseau
Fourth official: Shane Magaris
November 3, 2024#4 Siena 0–1 #5 Manhattan Loudonville, NY
1:00 p.m. EST Report
  • Yellow card.svg 83', Soccerball shade.svg89' Olivia McMaster
Stadium: Hickey Field
Attendance: 714
Referee: Franco Somma
Assistant referees: Daniel Rego
Assistant referees: Aidan Krok
Fourth official: Yevgeniy Mednikov

Semifinals

November 7, 2024 #2 Quinnipiac 3–1#3 Canisius Hamden, CT
1:00 p.m. EST
  • Courtney Chochol Soccerball shade.svg52'
  • Molly Andrews Yellow card.svg 56'
  • Aisling Spillane Soccerball shade.svg55', 84', Yellow card.svg 65'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 43' Lizzy Harkness
  • Yellow card.svg 57' Madeline Weltin
  • Soccerball shade.svg88' Mia Iacona
Stadium: Quinnipiac Soccer Stadium
Referee: Dave Breckner
Assistant referees: William Ferris
Assistant referees: Colby Johnson
Fourth official: Frank Severo
November 7, 2024 #1 Fairfield 4–1#5 Manhattan Fairfield, CT
7:00 p.m. EST
  • Sam Kersey Soccerball shade.svg5', 50'
  • Caroline Kelly Soccerball shade.svg12'
  • Alex Darcy Soccerball shade.svg42'
Report
  • Soccerball shade.svg28' (pen.) Julia Nicholas
Stadium: Lessing Field
Attendance: 347
Referee: Nathaniel Hirschman
Assistant referees: Aaron Selenica
Assistant referees: Ricardo Barreto
Fourth official: Bruno Mozzo

Final

November 10, 2024 #1 Fairfield 1–0#2 Quinnipiac Fairfield, CT
1:00 p.m. EST
  • Maddy Theriault Soccerball shade.svg74'
Report
  • Yellow card.svg 53' Aisling Spillane
  • Yellow card.svg 85' Milena Branco
Stadium: Lessing Field
Attendance: 626
Referee: Matthew Mercier
Assistant referees: Stephen Miller
Assistant referees: George Frascione
Fourth official: Daniel Aloi

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 15 goals scored in 7 matches, for an average of 2.14 goals per match (as of November 10, 2024).

3 goals

  • Aisling Spillane – Quinnipiac

2 goals

  • Sam Kersey – Fairfield

1 goal

  • Courtney Chochol – Quinnipiac
  • Alex Darcy – Fairfield
  • Lizzy Harkness – Canisius
  • Mia Iacona – Canisius
  • Caroline Kelly – Fairfield
  • Reagan Klarmann – Fairfield
  • Olivia McMaster – Manhattan
  • Julia Nicholas – Manhattan
  • Maddy Theriault – Fairfield
  • Madeline Weltin – Canisius

All-Tournament team

Source: [8]

PlayerTeam
Meghan Heath Canisius
Mia Iacona
Reagan Klarmann Fairfield
Sam Kersey
Allie Kirby
Maddy Theriault
Molly Brunk Manhattan
Julia Nicholas
Victoria Foster Quinnipiac
Rachel Roman
Aisling Spillane

MVP in bold

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