2025 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament

2025 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	6
Matches	5
Attendance	1,330
Site	Campus Sites, hosted by Higher Seed
Champions	UIC (1st title)
Winning coach	David Nikolic (1st title)
MVP	Sara Sanabria (UIC)
Broadcast	ESPN+
Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament «2024   2026»

2025 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer standings

v t e	Conf.									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Drake  ‍†‍‍	6	–	2	–	1		.722			9	–	6	–	4		.579
Murray State  ‍‍‍	5	–	1	–	3		.722			10	–	4	–	5		.658
Indiana State  ‍‍‍	4	–	2	–	3		.611			8	–	6	–	6		.550
Illinois State  ‍‍‍	4	–	2	–	4		.600			8	–	6	–	8		.545
Southern Illinois  ‍‍‍	4	–	5	–	1		.450			10	–	6	–	3		.605
UIC  ‍‍‡‍y	3	–	3	–	3		.500			8	–	8	–	6		.500
Evansville  ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	1		.389			7	–	7	–	2		.500
Belmont  ‍‍‍	2	–	4	–	3		.389			4	–	6	–	7		.441
Valparaiso  ‍‍‍	2	–	4	–	3		.389			5	–	8	–	4		.412
UNI  ‍‍‍	1	–	6	–	2		.222			4	–	9	–	3		.344
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2025 Missouri Valley Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 9, 2025 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source:Missouri Valley Conference

The 2025 Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Missouri Valley Conference held from November 2 through November 9, 2025. The tournament was hosted at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting each game. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Missouri State Bears, who were unsuccessful in defending their crown as they moved to CUSA during the offseason. ^[1] . ^{[2] [3]} The sixth-seeded UIC Flames would go on to win the tournament in a penalty shoot-out over Illinois State. ^{[4] [5]} The conference tournament title was the first for the UIC women's soccer program, and first Missouri Valley title for head coach David Nikolic. ^[6] As tournament champions, UIC earned the Missouri Valley's automatic berth into the 2025 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament.

Seeding

The top six of the ten Missouri Valley Conference women's soccer programs qualified for the 2025 Tournament. Teams were seeded based on their regular season records. A tiebreaker was required to determine the fourth and fifth seeds as Illinois State and Southern Illinois both finished with thirteen regular season conference points. Illinois State earned the fourth seed by virtue of their 2–0 home win over Southern Illinois on September 28 during the regular season. ^[7]

Seed	School	Conference Record	Points
1	Drake	6–2–1	19
2	Murray State	5–1–3	18
3	Indiana State	4–2–3	15
4	Illinois State	3–2–4	13
5	Southern Illinois	4–4–1
6	UIC	3–3–3	12

Bracket

Source: ^[8]

	Quarterfinals Sunday, Nov. 2					Semifinals Thursday, Nov. 6					Final Sunday, Nov. 9
						1	Drake	0
	4	Illinois State (a.e.t.)	2			4	Illinois State	1
	5	Southern Illinois	1								4	Illinois State	0 (1)
											6	UIC (pen.)	0 (2)
						2	Murray State	1 (3)
	3	Indiana State	1			6	UIC (pen.)	1 (4)
	6	UIC	2

Schedule

Quarterfinals

(3) Indiana State v (6) UIC

November 2	(3) Indiana State	1–2	(6) UIC	Terre Haute, IN
12:00 p.m. CST	Tori Angelo 54'	Report	64' Katelyn Nardulli 69' Hannah Gryzik  90' Julia Thomson	Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 276

(4) Illinois State v (5) Southern Illinois

November 2	(4) Illinois State	2–1 (a.e.t.)	(5) Southern Illinois	Normal, IL
1:00 p.m. CST	Chloe Cline 59',  69', 93'	Report	35' Sophia Schlicklin  59' Lily Murray  69' Team	Stadium: Adelaide Street Field Attendance: 315

Semifinals

(2) Murray State v (6) UIC

November 6	(2) Murray State	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	(6) UIC	Murray, KY
1:00 p.m. CST	Mary Hardy 31' Kate Donoghue  86'	Report	86' (pen.) Kaysey Castro	Stadium: Cutchin Field Attendance: 397 Referee: Eulogio Villalpando Assistant referees: Adam Herges Assistant referees: Lucas Cross Fourth official: Mandy Love
	Penalties
	Mary Hardy Ava Wilson Breece Bass Megan Wilson Kate Donoghue Sami Wilson		Hannah Gryzik Camryn Ries Kaysey Castro Sophia Jaime Addison Carriere Katelyn Nardulli

(1) Drake v (4) Illinois State

November 6	(1) Drake	0–1	(4) Illinois State	Des Moines, IA
3:00 p.m. CST	Layla Kelbel  61' Team  72'	Report	85' (pen.) Abby Hall	Stadium: Mediacom Stadium Attendance: 342 Referee: Eulogio Villalpando Assistant referees: Sean Giza Assistant referees: Vasilios Vouris Fourth official: Christian Vouris

Final

(4) Illinois State v (6) UIC

November 9	(4) Illinois State	0–0 (a.e.t.) (1–2 p)	(6) UIC	Normal, IL
1:00 p.m. CST	Abby Hall  104'	Report		Stadium: Adelaide Street Field Referee: Nikola Aleksic Assistant referees: Adrian Werbicki Assistant referees: Shane Richards Fourth official: Michele Waldbeesser
	Penalties
	Eve Gricius Elyse Deschryver Abby Hall Madi Valenti Jade Rehberger		Hannah Gryzik Sophia Jaime Kaysey Castro Camryn Ries

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 9 goals scored in 5 matches, for an average of 1.8 goals per match (as of November 9, 2025).

2 goals

• Chloe Cline – Illinois State

1 goal

• Abby Hall – Illinois State
• Tori Angelo – Indiana State
• Mary Hardy – Murray State
• Sophia Schlicklin – Southern Illinois
• Kaysey Castro – UIC
• Hannah Gryzik – UIC
• Katelyn Nardulli – UIC

All-Tournament team

Source: ^[9]

Player	Team
Mika Marolly	Drake
Madelyn Smith
Chloe Cline	Illinois State
Abby Hall
Madi Valenti
Tori Angelo	Indiana State
Sydney Etter	Murray State
Natalie Miller
Olivia Anderson	Southern Illinois
Kasey Castro	UIC
Hannah Gryzik
Katelyn Nardulli
Sara Sanabria

MVP in bold

References

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