The 2025 SCIAC Women’s Soccer Tournament will begin on Monday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. with #4 seed Occidental College hosting #5 seed Chapman University, the winner of which will face #1 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges at 2 p.m. on Wednesday followed by #2 California Lutheran University hosting #3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges at 7 p.m.
Tournament Central
The top-seeded Sagehens defended their outright regular season title with 30 points (9-0-3 record) and remain unbeaten in all competition on the year, earning a No. 6 national ranking in the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll. Goalkeepers
Hadley Johnson and
Patricia DePalma have been nigh-impenetrable behind
Vivian Rojas Collins and a Pomona-Pitzer defense, allowing just four goals in 12 conference games. Reigning Offensive Athlete of the Year
Hannah Hong again led the conference with seven goals and 18 points while
Sabina Peterson Rajalingam has burst onto the scene as a rookie to rank fourth in points with 10 (four goals, two assists).
Cal Lutheran finished just two points off the Sagehens in the table after a scoreless tie with CMS in the penultimate game of the regular season. The Regals defeated the Athenas, 1-0, back on Sept. 20 to avenge their semifinal exit from last year’s tournament thanks to an early goal from
Riley Cardenas while
Kelsey Slaugh made nine saves across both shutouts. The attacking duo of
Olivia Suarez and
Anna Evenson has generated a conference-high 76 shots between them, leading Suarez to rank second with six goals and Evenson joint-top for assists (four).
The conference’s best goal differential belongs to the third-seeded Athenas, who scored 26 goals and surrendered just one more than Pomona-Pitzer in 12 games for an average margin of victory at nearly two goals per game. It all starts from the back with
Sadie Brown, the conference shutout leader (five) whose distribution is key to the CMS buildup from the back line. Once the ball has gotten forward,
Riley Zitar has distributed to
Flora Glantz and
Cate Lewison who combined for seven goals, with
Elsie Lindeman chipping in three goals and two assists.
The Tigers are back in the tournament field for the first time since 2021 after starting conference play unbeaten through their first five games. Though the matchup is far from ideal after Chapman stole both regular season games by identical 1-0 scores,
Kylie Jones notably was absent from both defeats and in fact missed all four games of a four-loss streak before the Tigers won two of their final three upon the senior’s return to the lineup.
Mia Steadman litters the conference leaderboard, ranking third in goals (five) including a conference-best four of the game-winning variety.
Jenna Urrabazo has been synonymous with Chapman women’s soccer and its success for the past four years leading the Panthers attack alongside
Sidney Karjian. Goalkeeper
Bella Barretto has been a key difference-maker between the posts with 49 saves and an .860 save percentage that sits third in the conference after the Panthers ranked ninth last season. Chapman remains the only team to secure the #5 seed in both years since the tournament field expanded.
The winner of each semifinal game will meet in the Tournament final on Saturday, Nov. 8 on the campus of the highest remaining seed.
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