2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT

ACC NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2014 Women’s Soccer National Champions / FLORIDA STATE
Senior Jamia Fields broke a scoreless tie in the
83rd minute, and Florida State (24-1-1) survived a
late fury from fourth-ranked Virginia (23-3-0) as
the Seminoles captured the first women’s soccer
national championship in program history with a
1-0 victory in an all-ACC NCAA final on Dec. 7 at FAU
Stadium in Boca Raton, Fla.
Cheyna Williams found Fields, who dribbled
across the 18-yard box before sending a lowlining
left-footed shot from just outside the box
past a diving Morgan Stearns and inside the right
post for the game’s only goal. Williams, who was
credited with an assist on the play, was named
the College Cup’s Most Outstanding Player on
offense. She finished FSU’s postseason run with
13 points on six goals and one assist.
The goal for Fields was her third of the 2014
NCAA Tournament, and seven of her 14 career
goals as a Seminole came in the postseason.
For the sixth time in as many games in the
NCAA Tournament, the Seminoles did not allow
a goal. Florida State’s defense didn’t even
allow the Cavaliers to register a shot on frame
in the College Cup final. FSU joined the 2003
North Carolina squad as the only two teams to
go through six games of the NCAA tournament
without allowing a goal.
And for the third time during the 2014 season,
Florida State was able to hold the nation’s
best scoring team without a goal. All three of
Virginia’s losses on the year came at the hands
of the Seminoles and all three times by identical
1-0 scores.
“Virginia’s a great team and a great program,”
FSU coach Mark Krikorian said. “They made
it very difficult for us to break them down. I
wouldn’t say that it was our most attractive
game, but at the end of the day, we did what we
had to do to find a result. I’m proud of the effort,
proud of the kids and happy to have the result in
our favor.”
2014 men’s Soccer National Champions / Virginia
Virginia earned the 2014 NCAA men’s soccer
championship over UCLA on Dec. 14 following a
penalty-kick shootout in front of 8,015 fans at
WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina.
After the teams played 110 scoreless minutes,
Virginia (14-6-3) won the shootout, 4-2, to earn
the program’s seventh national championship.
The championship was the 21st in Virginia
athletics history. With its seven men’s soccer
titles, Virginia now owns the third-most
championships of any program behind only Saint
Louis (10) and Indiana (8). Virginia improved to
7-1 all-time in NCAA Championship matches.
Virginia was the No. 16 seed in the NCAA
Championship field, while UCLA (14-5-5) was
seeded No. 2. The Cavaliers also ousted topseeded
Notre Dame (round of 16) and eighthseeded
Georgetown (quarterfinals) on the
road on their road to the championship. Virginia
matched the second-lowest seed to win a national
championship since the NCAA started seeding 16
teams in 2003, joining No. 16 seed Indiana in 2012.
Unseeded UC Santa Barbara won the title in 2006.
“I told these guys before the game that being
the best at what you do – being the absolute
best at what you do – there’s no better feeling,”
Virginia head coach George Gelnovatch said.
“Two hundred five Division I college soccer
teams all want to do just what we did. It’s
really rewarding in the manner in which we did
it – constantly changing, constantly adapting,
and the whole time they were an unbelievable,
coachable group that listened to everything we
had to say and executed every game plan – and
we had a lot of them. I’m so, so proud of them
and happy for them.”
Virginia converted on four of its five penaltykick
opportunities in winning the title. The
Cavaliers’ Calle Brown earned the 2014 NCAA
Men’s College Cup’s Most Valuable Defensive
Player honor.
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