SPU Women's Soccer Earns Trip to NCAA Tournament
November 10, 2003

SEATTLE (Nov. 10) – Less than three years after it began play, the Seattle Pacific University women’s soccer team is going to the NCAA tournament.

The 10th-ranked Falcons (17-1-2) are seeded No. 3 in the region and will play No. 17 Cal State Dominguez Hills (16-4-1) in San Diego Saturday night (Nov. 15) in a first-round playoff. Host and No. 3-ranked UC San Diego (16-2-0) plays Cal State San Bernardino (11-7-2).

The winners to meet Monday (Nov. 17) for the Far West Region championship and the right to host the Midwest victor in a quarterfinal game Nov. 22. Game times for the regional tournament are tentatively set for 5 p.m. and 7:30 Saturday. Monday’s game time has yet to be determined. The 32-team Division II tournament culminates with the Final Four Dec. 4 and 6 in Virginia Beach.

SPU takes a 10-game winning streak and an unbeaten run of 17 consecutive games into the postseason. Its only loss was to Dominguez Hills, 2-1 in Carson, Ca., Sept. 1. The difference was an own goal with less than 30 minutes left.

Seattle Pacific’s inaugural game at Point Loma Nazarene on Aug. 25, 2001, was less than 15 miles away from Triton Soccer Stadium on the UC San Diego campus. Five members of the original team will make the trip south this week.

The Falcons won the Great Northwest Athletic Conference crown in 2002 and repeated that feat this year, going 11-0-1 in conference games.