2024 WAC women's soccer tournament

2024 WAC women's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Attendance	534
Site	Elmer Gray Stadium Abilene, Texas
Champions	California Baptist (1st title)
Winning coach	Kristen St. Clair (1st title)
MVP	Jayden Ramirez (California Baptist)
Broadcast	ESPN+
WAC women's soccer tournament «2023   2025»

2024 WAC women's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Utah Valley  ‍†‍‍	6	–	0	–	1		.929			12	–	5	–	2		.684
Grand Canyon  ‍‍‍	5	–	1	–	1		.786			11	–	6	–	3		.625
Seattle  ‍‍‍	4	–	1	–	2		.714			10	–	3	–	6		.684
California Baptist  ‍‍‡‍y	3	–	3	–	1		.500			10	–	7	–	3		.575
Tarleton State  ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	0		.429			9	–	8	–	3		.525
Utah Tech  ‍‍‍	2	–	4	–	1		.357			5	–	7	–	5		.441
Abilene Christian  ‍‍‍	0	–	5	–	2		.143			2	–	7	–	8		.353
Southern Utah  ‍‍‍	0	–	5	–	2		.143			2	–	10	–	5		.265
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2024 WAC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 10, 2024 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source:WAC

The 2024 Western Athletic Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Western Athletic Conference held from November 3 to November 9, 2024. The five-match tournament took place at Elmer Gray Stadium in Abilene, Texas on the campus of Abilene Christian University. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular-season divisional conference play. The defending champions were the Grand Canyon Antelopes. ^{[1] [2]} Grand Canyon was the second seed in the 2024 tournament and reached the final. However, they fell in the Final to California Baptist 3–2. ^{[3] [4]} This was the first WAC Tournament victory in California Baptist program history, and the first tournament title for head coach Kristen St. Clair. ^[5] As tournament champions, California Baptist earned the WAC's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament.

Seeding

The top six teams from regular season play qualified for the 2024 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records and the top two seeds earned a bye into the semifinal round. No tiebreakers were required as all of the top six teams finished with unique regular season conference records. ^[6]

Seed	School	Conference Record	Points
1	Utah Valley	6–0–1	19
2	Grand Canyon	5–1–1	16
3	Seattle	4–1–2	14
4	California Baptist	3–3–1	10
5	Tarleton State	3–4–0	9
6	Utah Tech	2–4–1	7

Bracket

Source: ^[7]

	First round Sunday, Nov. 3					Semifinals Wednesday, Nov. 6					Final Saturday, Nov. 9
						1	Utah Valley	2
	4	California Baptist	2			4	California Baptist	3
	5	Tarleton State	0								4	California Baptist	3
											2	Grand Canyon	2
						2	Grand Canyon (pen.)	0 (4)
	3	Seattle	2			3	Seattle	0 (2)
	6	Utah Tech	0

Matches

First round

#4 California Baptist v #5 Tarleton State

November 3, 2024	#4 California Baptist	2–0	#5 Tarleton State	Abilene, TX
4:00 p.m. CST	Lauren White 46', 82' Kaylee Hauck  87'	Report	59' Team  86' Stevie Reynolds	Stadium: Elmer Gray Stadium Attendance: 96 Referee: Brandon Gardner Assistant referees: Tony Obas Assistant referees: Carlos De Dios Fourth official: Bert Green

#3 Seattle v #6 Utah Tech

November 3, 2024	#3 Seattle	2–0	#6 Utah Tech	Abilene, TX
7:00 p.m. CST	Bella Bonnett 75' Kailee Wilson 80'	Report		Stadium: Elmer Gray Stadium Attendance: 96 Referee: Habeeb Hooshmand Assistant referees: Harry Baydear Assistant referees: William Tomlinson Fourth official: Joshual Ell

Semifinals

#1 Utah Valley v #4 California Baptist

November 6, 2024	#1 Utah Valley	2–3	#4 California Baptist	Abilene, TX
4:00 p.m. CST	Ruby Hladek 14' Greta Davis  32' Quincy Bonds 36' Taylor Nelson  64'	Report	43' Summer Allen  52', 88' Kaylee Hauck 67' Jayden Ramirez  68' Katrina Marsh 78',  81'  90' Ava Westlund	Stadium: Elmer Gray Stadium Attendance: 96 Referee: Habeeb Hooshmand Assistant referees: Jessie McNeil III Assistant referees: Geovany Martinez Fourth official: Ben Cuyler

#2 Grand Canyon v #3 Seattle

November 6, 2024	#2 Grand Canyon	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	#3 Seattle	Abilene, TX
7:00 p.m. CST		Report		Stadium: Elmer Gray Stadium Attendance: 129 Referee: Arturo Ibarra Assistant referees: William Dixon Assistant referees: Joseph Semus Fourth official: Stephen Barelme
	Penalties
	AJ Loera Bella Piete Brenna Alderson Aleisha Ganief Ani Jensen		Alana Lamb U'i Kaaihue Hallie Bergford Caroline Penner

Final

#2 Grand Canyon v #4 California Baptist

November 9, 2024	#2 Grand Canyon	2–3	#4 California Baptist	Abilene, TX
2:00 p.m. CST	Aleisha Ganief 27',  85' AJ Loera 61'	Report	53' Morgan Witz  68' Sophia Petrov 78' Grace Blumfeldt 81' Natalia Castro	Stadium: Elmer Gray Stadium Attendance: 117 Referee: William Hale Assistant referees: Kellen Schmidt Assistant referees: Brian Cole Fourth official: Daniel Radford

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 14 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 2.8 goals per match (as of November 9, 2024).

2 goals

• Lauren White – California Baptist

1 goal

• Grace Blumfeldt – California Baptist
• Quincy Bonds – Utah Valley
• Bella Bonnett – Seattle
• Natalia Castro – California Baptist
• Aleisha Ganief – Utah Valley
• Kaylee Hauck – California Baptist
• Ruby Hladek – Utah Valley
• AJ Loera – Utah Valley
• Jayden Ramirez – California Baptist
• Ava Westlund – California Baptist
• Kailee Wilson – Seattle
• Morgan Witz – California Baptist

All-Tournament team

Source: ^[8]

Player	Team
Summer Allen	California Baptist
Kaylee Hauck
Jayden Ramirez
Lauryn White
Morgan Witz
Aleisha Ganief	Grand Canyon
AJ Loera
Sidney Roberts
Kassidy Kirgan	Seattle
Kait Raffensperger
Ruby Hladek	Utah Valley

MVP in bold

References

1. Western Athletic Conference. "2023 WAC Women's Soccer Tournament". wacsports.com. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
2. "SU women's soccer falls in WAC championship". The Seattle Times . November 4, 2023. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
3. Western Athletic Conference. "2024 WAC Women's Soccer Tournament". wacsports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
4. Pope, Dennis (November 12, 2024). "Inland college notes: Morgan Witz leads California Baptist women's soccer team into NCAA Tournament" . The Press-Enterprise . Retrieved January 18, 2025.
5. Western Athletic Conference. "2024 Women's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). wacsports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
6. Western Athletic Conference (October 26, 2024). "2024 WAC Women's Soccer Tournament Bracket Announced". wacsports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
7. Western Athletic Conference. "2024 WAC Women's Soccer Bracket" (PDF). wacsports.com. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
8. "California Baptist Wins Program's First WAC Women's Soccer Championship". wacsports.com. Western Athletic Conference. November 9, 2024. Retrieved January 18, 2025.