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Princeton Ticketed to Virginia for NCAA Women's Soccer First Round
November 11, 2024 | Women's Soccer
Virginia will be the Princeton women's soccer team's first-round opponent for a 7 p.m. game on Friday as the Tigers head back to the NCAA tournament for the second straight year and the third time in the last four.Â
Princeton gained the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by winning the Ivy League Tournament this weekend after winning the Ivy League title with a 6-1 league season. Princeton will enter the NCAA tournament at 14-4 overall.Â
Virginia (12-5, 5-5 ACC) placed ninth in the ACC, missing out on the six-team ACC tournament. Virginia returns to the NCAA tournament after missing it last year and making the quarterfinals in 2022.Â
It's Princeton's 16th trip to the NCAA tournament and sixth under head coach Sean Driscoll, who also brought the team to the bracket in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023. Princeton won first-round games in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023 and advanced to the quarterfinals in 2017, the program's furthest advance aside from the 2004 trip one round further to the national semifinals.Â
It will be Princeton's third trip to Charlottesville for the NCAAs, though none of those three games were against the Cavaliers. In 2003, Princeton fell 2-1 to Villanova in the first round. In 2008, West Virginia defeated the Tigers in the first round, also 2-1. In 2015, after a first-round home win over Monmouth in Driscoll's first season, USC defeated the Tigers 3-0 in the second round.
Princeton and UVA have met just twice, both in the 1990s and both Virginia wins. In 1997, UVA was a 3-0 winner over the Tigers in Charlottesville, and in 1998, Virginia was a 2-1 winner, also in Charlottesville.
Princeton counts eight All-Ivy League honorees this season, including Offensive Player of the Year Pietra Tordin, who has scored nine goals in nine games since returning from helping Team USA to a third-place finish at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia in September. Tordin scored four goals in that tournament, including a hat trick in the group-stage final against Paraguay.Â
Princeton gained the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by winning the Ivy League Tournament this weekend after winning the Ivy League title with a 6-1 league season. Princeton will enter the NCAA tournament at 14-4 overall.Â
Virginia (12-5, 5-5 ACC) placed ninth in the ACC, missing out on the six-team ACC tournament. Virginia returns to the NCAA tournament after missing it last year and making the quarterfinals in 2022.Â
It's Princeton's 16th trip to the NCAA tournament and sixth under head coach Sean Driscoll, who also brought the team to the bracket in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023. Princeton won first-round games in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023 and advanced to the quarterfinals in 2017, the program's furthest advance aside from the 2004 trip one round further to the national semifinals.Â
It will be Princeton's third trip to Charlottesville for the NCAAs, though none of those three games were against the Cavaliers. In 2003, Princeton fell 2-1 to Villanova in the first round. In 2008, West Virginia defeated the Tigers in the first round, also 2-1. In 2015, after a first-round home win over Monmouth in Driscoll's first season, USC defeated the Tigers 3-0 in the second round.
Princeton and UVA have met just twice, both in the 1990s and both Virginia wins. In 1997, UVA was a 3-0 winner over the Tigers in Charlottesville, and in 1998, Virginia was a 2-1 winner, also in Charlottesville.
Princeton counts eight All-Ivy League honorees this season, including Offensive Player of the Year Pietra Tordin, who has scored nine goals in nine games since returning from helping Team USA to a third-place finish at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia in September. Tordin scored four goals in that tournament, including a hat trick in the group-stage final against Paraguay.Â
Players Mentioned
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Women's Soccer Highlights at Miami, 9-4-25
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Alexandra Barry's Goal vs. Ohio State, 8-28-25
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