Locator: 49388SOCCER.
The reason for this note:
- oldest granddaughter graduated from Vanderbilt earlier this year (2025);
- middle granddaughter is a sophomore / ROTC cadet at Stanford this years (2025).
Schedule:
The 44th annual NCAA Women’s College Cup will be played December 5 and 8, 2025, at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri with the University of Kansas and Kansas City Sports Commission serving as hosts.
The first national semifinal will be played and broadcast live on ESPNU at 6 p.m. EST on Friday, December 5, 2025, followed by the second semifinal beginning at approximately 8:45 p.m. EST live on ESPNU. The national championship match will take place at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, December 8, 2025, and will also broadcast live on ESPNU.
A family note (to be explained later):
This was just posted one hour ago. Both Stanford and Vanderbilt are in the national championships -- College Women's Soccer.
Stanford won the ACC championship; and Vanderbilt won the SEC.
It's possible -- depending on the brackets -- they could end up playing each other.
Link to teams selected. Like men's basketball, March Madness, the women's soccer national championship starts with 64 teams:
The ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States with 18 member universities that compete in NCAA Division I sports, including football. Current members include Boston College, California, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest. The conference was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The SEC (wiki):
The SEC consists of 16 member institutions located in the U.S. states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
The 64 teams:
