2021 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team

2021 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer
National Champions ACC Tournament Champions
NCAA Tournament, College Cup
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
U. Soc. Coaches  poll	No. 1
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 1
Record	21–1–3 (7–1–2 ACC)
Head coach	Mark Krikorian (17th season)
Assistant coaches	Mike Bristol (13th season) Morinao Imaizumi (9th season)
Home stadium	Seminole Soccer Complex
Seasons ←  2020 2022  →

2021 ACC women's soccer standings

v t e	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
No. 8 Virginia  ‍†‍‍y	8	–	0	–	2		.900			18	–	3	–	2		.826
No. 1 Florida State  ‍‍‡‍y	7	–	1	–	2		.800			21	–	1	–	3		.900
No. 5 Duke  ‍‍‍y	7	–	2	–	1		.750			16	–	4	–	1		.786
No. 16 Notre Dame  ‍‍‍y	7	–	3	–	0		.700			14	–	6	–	2		.682
Clemson  ‍‍‍y	6	–	3	–	1		.650			12	–	7	–	1		.625
No. 14 North Carolina  ‍‍‍y	5	–	2	–	3		.650			12	–	3	–	3		.750
No. 25 Wake Forest  ‍‍‍y	6	–	4	–	0		.600			16	–	6	–	0		.727
Virginia Tech  ‍‍‍y	5	–	3	–	2		.600			12	–	6	–	2		.650
Pittsburgh  ‍‍‍	4	–	6	–	0		.400			11	–	7	–	0		.611
NC State  ‍‍‍y	4	–	6	–	0		.400			9	–	9	–	2		.500
Louisville  ‍‍‍	3	–	6	–	1		.350			7	–	7	–	2		.500
Boston College  ‍‍‍	1	–	9	–	0		.100			7	–	10	–	1		.417
Miami (FL)  ‍‍‍	1	–	9	–	0		.100			4	–	12	–	0		.250
Syracuse  ‍‍‍	0	–	10	–	0		.000			4	–	12	–	1		.265
† – Conference champion ‡ – 2021 ACC Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of December 7, 2021 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Poll Source: The ACC

The 2021 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team represented Florida State University during the 2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. It was the 27th season of the university fielding a program. The Seminoles were led by 17th year head coach Mark Krikorian.

The Seminoles finished the season 21–1–3 and 7–1–2 in ACC play to finish in second place. As the second seed in the ACC Tournament they defeated Wake Forest and Virginia to win the tournament. The win was the program's eight ACC Tournament title. The Seminoles received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and were awarded a number one seed. The Seminoles defeated South Alabama, SMU, Pepperdine, Michigan, and Rutgers on their way to the tournament final. In the final, they defeated BYU in a penalty shoot-out to be crowned National Champions. Following the season, Krikorian resigned as head coach.

Previous season

Main article: 2020 Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team

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 Seminoles finished the fall season 11–0–0, 8–0–0 in ACC play, to finish in first place. As the first seed in the ACC Tournament, they defeated Notre Dame, Duke, and finally North Carolina to claim the championship. The Seminoles did not play any additional games in the spring season and entered the NCAA Tournament as the ACC's automatic qualifier because they won the ACC Tournament. They were selected as the first overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and defeated Milwaukee in the Second Round and Penn State in the Third Round. They advanced past Duke in the Quarterfinals and Virginia in the Semifinals on penalty shootouts. However, their shootout luck ran out in the Finals, where they fell to Santa Clara to finish as runner-up in the tournament. Jaelin Howell went on to win the Herman Trophy. ^[3]

Squad

Roster

Source: ^[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 1 GK   PUR Cristina Roque 2 FW   USA Jenna Nighswonger 3 DF   USA Alyssa Stadeker 4 FW   USA Kristina Lynch 6 MF   USA Jaelin Howell 7 MF   JPN Ran Iwai 8 FW   USA Lauren Flynn 9 DF   USA Taya Hjorth 10 FW   JAM Jody Brown 11 MF   USA Kirsten Pavlisko 12 MF   IRL Heather Payne 13 FW   BER LeiLanni Nesbeth

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   USA Kaitlyn Zipay 16 DF   CAN Gabby Carle 17 MF   ENG Emma Bissell 18 MF   POR Maria Alagoa 19 FW   USA Amelia Horton 21 DF   USA Gianna Mitchell 22 FW   USA Megan Morgan 23 GK   USA Mia Justus 25 MF   USA Emily Madril 26 DF   USA Clara Robbins 30 FW   SWE Beata Olsson 33 MF   CHN Yujie Zhao

Team management

Position	Staff
Athletic Director	David Coburn
Head Coach	Mark Krikorian
Assistant Coach	Mike Bristol
Assistant Coach	Morinao Imaizumi
Director of Operations	Nathan Minion

Source: ^[5]

Schedule

Source: ^[6]

Date Time, TV	Rank#	Opponent#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Non-conference Regular season
August 19* 7:00 p.m.,  ACCNX	No. 1	No. 9  Texas A&M	W  1–0	1–0–0	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,008) Tallahassee, FL
August 22* 1:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	Alabama	W  4–0	2–0–0	Seminole Soccer Complex (838) Tallahassee, FL
August 26* 6:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	South Alabama	W  4–0	3–0–0	Seminole Soccer Complex (817) Tallahassee, FL
August 29* 1:30 p.m.,  P12N	No. 1	at  Colorado	W  2–1	4–0–0	Prentup Field (2,536) Boulder, CO
September 2* 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	Florida Rivalry	W  5–2	5–0–0	Seminole Soccer Complex (2,552) Tallahassee, FL
September 9* 7:00 p.m.	No. 1	at  Florida Gulf Coast	W  4–0	6–0–0	FGCU Soccer Complex (1,111) Fort Myers, FL
September 12* 3:00 p.m.,  ESPNU	No. 1	at No. 10  Auburn	W  2–1	7–0–0	Auburn Soccer Complex (1,043) Auburn, AL
ACC Regular season
September 18 6:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	Boston College	W  4–1	8–0–0 (1–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,387) Tallahassee, FL
September 23 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	Pittsburgh	W  5–0	9–0–0 (2–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,767) Tallahassee, FL
September 26 1:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	at  Louisville	W  3–0	10–0–0 (3–0–0)	Lynn Stadium (376) Louisville, KY
October 1 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	at  Clemson	W  4–1	11–0–0 (4–0–0)	Riggs Field (1,001) Clemson, SC
October 7 7:00 p.m., ACCNX	No. 1	Syracuse	W  5–0	12–0–0 (5–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,464) Tallahassee, FL
October 10 Noon,  ACCRSN	No. 1	Miami (FL) Rivalry	W  4–1	13–0–0 (6–0–0)	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,397) Tallahassee, FL
October 15 5:00 p.m., ACCRSN	No. 1	at  Virginia Tech	W  2–0	14–0–0 (7–0–0)	Thompson Field (1,072) Blackburg, VA
October 21 8:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	at No. 7  North Carolina	T  2–2  2OT	14–0–1 (7–0–1)	Dorrance Field (1,447) Chapel Hill, NC
October 24 2:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 1	at No. 6  Duke	L  0–1	14–1–1 (7–1–1)	Koskinen Stadium (1,731) Durham, NC
October 28 7:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 3	No. 1  Virginia	T  1–1  2OT	14–1–2 (7–1–2)	Seminole Soccer Complex (2,388) Tallahassee, FL
ACC Tournament
November 5 8:00 p.m., ACCN	(2) No. 2	vs. (6) No. 25  Wake Forest Semifinal	W  2–1  OT	15–1–2	Sahlen's Stadium (754) Cary, NC
November 7 1:00 p.m., ESPNU	(2) No. 2	vs. (1) No. 1 Virginia Final	W  1–0	16–1–2	Sahlen's Stadium (1,250) Cary, NC
NCAA Tournament
November 12 6:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 1	South Alabama First round	W  3–0	17–1–2	Seminole Soccer Complex (2,125) Tallahassee, FL
November 19 5:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 1	No. 25  SMU Second round	W  5–1	18–1–2	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,504) Tallahassee, FL
November 21 2:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 1	(4) No. 19  Pepperdine Round of 16	W  1–0	19–1–2	Seminole Soccer Complex (1,367) Tallahassee, FL
November 26 2:00 p.m., ACCNX	(1) No. 1	(2) No. 9  Michigan Quarterfinal	W  1–0  OT	20–1–2	Seminole Soccer Complex (2,005) Tallahassee, FL
December 3 7:00 p.m., ESPNU	(1) No. 1	vs. (1) No. 5  Rutgers Semifinal	W  1–0	21–1–2	Stevens Stadium Santa Clara, CA
December 6 8:00 p.m., ESPNU	(1) No. 1	vs. (4) No. 13  BYU Final	T  0–0 (4–3 PKs) 2OT	21–1–3	Stevens Stadium Santa Clara, CA
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern.

Awards and honors

Recipient	Award	Date	Ref.
Jaelin Howell	Preseason Hermann Trophy Watchlist	August 19	[7]
Emily Madril
Yujie Zhao
Jaelin Howell	Preseason All-ACC Team	August 12	[8]
Yujie Zhao
Jaelin Howell	ACC Defensive Player of the Week	August 24	[9]
Emily Madril	ACC Defensive Player of the Week	September 14	[10]
	ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Week	September 28	[11]
Beata Olsson	ACC Co-Offensive Player of the Week	October 5	[12]
Emily Madril	ACC Defensive Player of the Year	November 4	[13]
Jaelin Howell	ACC Midfielder of the Year
Yujie Zhao	All-ACC First Team
Emily Madril
Jaelin Howell
Gabby Carle	All-ACC Second Team
Beata Olsson
Clara Robbins
Jody Brown	All-ACC Third Team
Maria Alaoga	ACC All-Freshman Team
Mia Justus
Clara Robbins	ACC All-Tournament Team	November 7	[14]
Maria Alagoa
Lauren Flynn
Emily Madril
Cristina Roque
Clara Robbins	ACC Tournament MVP
Jaelin Howell	Herman Trophy semifinalist	November 30	[15]
Emily Madril
Jaelin Howell	United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region Team	November 30	[16]
Beata Olsson
Emily Madril
Yujie Zhao
Jaelin Howell	United Soccer Coaches All-Americans	December 2	[17]
Emily Madril
Yujie Zhao
Yujie Zhao	College Cup Offensive Most Outstanding Player	December 6	[18]
Cristina Roque	College Cup Defensive Most Outstanding Player	December 6	[19]
Jaelin Howell	Hermann Trophy finalist	December 8	[20]
Jaelin Howell	Hermann Trophy winner MAC Player of the Year NSCAA Player of the Year	January 7	[21]

Rankings

See also: 2021 NCAA Division I women's soccer rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
United Soccer [22]	1 (11)	1 (26)	1 (32)	1 (29)	1 (32)	1 (33)	1 (33)	1 (29)	1 (31)	1 (31)	3 (5)	2 (2)	1 (29)	Not released			1 (25)
TopDrawer Soccer [23]	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1

2022 NWSL Draft

Main article: 2022 NWSL Draft

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position
Jaelin Howell	Racing Louisville FC	1	2	MF

Source: ^[24]

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