River Forest, Ill. – The Dominican University women's soccer team has earned a spot in the NACC Conference Tournament for the 10th straight year and will be the third seed in the tournament for the 2024 season. The Stars have won 5 regular season NACC conference titles and 4 NACC conference tournaments titles in their 17 conference appearances.  

The women's soccer team finished the season with a 10-5-3 overall record after their slow start to the season opening up 0-4. Since September 14^th the Stars are 10-1-3.

Women's soccer finished third in the conference by posting a 9-1-2 NACC conference record. This was good for a three-way tie for second place but fell down to tiebreakers leaving DU in the 3^rd seed. Along side this conference record the Stars scored 44 total goals and only allowed 8 goals in conference play. The 44 goals is the second highest in the NACC only behind the number 1 seeded Illinois Tech Scarlet Hawks.

DU has played well against the higher competition within the NACC going 1-1-2 against the top five seeds in the conference excluding DU. The win was a 5-2 victory over St. Norbert at West Campus Field.

The women's soccer team has a balanced offensive attack being lead by five players. Graduate Students Grace Larson and Regan Coxon, Juniors Natalia Lopez and Mia Dosen and Freshman Ariana Barney. Larson is coming off a 4 goal game in the Stars latest game putting Grace in the lead with 9 goals on the season. Coxon has scored 8 goals on the season. Dosen, Lopez and Barney have all notched 6 goals on the season. On the defensive side of the ball the Stars are led by Graduate Student Sarah Grimmett between the pipes making 77 saves on the season.

Dominican being the third seed is hosting one game at West Campus Field and hoping to host multiple with some help from within the tournament. Their first opponent will be the 6^th seeded Marian University Sabres on Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm. The Stars and the Sabres played on October 12^th where Dominican put away Marian in a 5-0 victory. The women's soccer team will look to keep up that momentum against Marian on Saturday afternoon.

Head coach Carlos Carrillo commented on this achievement by saying "Conference tournament time is part of the journey to the NCAA tournament, and what a coach wants is to be playing their best soccer at this time of the year.  I believe that's where we are today, we are peaking at the right time and I'm excited for our team and what we can accomplish together."