UNC's Anson Dorrance is the most iconic NCAA soccer coach in history. The NCAA wins leader has 934 career wins, emerged victorious with 21 national championships, won the first-ever Women’s World Cup in 1991, and coached the likes of Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Cindy Parlow, and Tisha Venturini. He has...
As the NCAA calendar kicks off and Division 1 men and women are a few matches into their seasons, it’s time for our Total Football Analysis Women’s Pre-season Team to Watch. For the first time, we're excited to present a pre-season team to represent the NCAA D1 women's game. The...
In our February magazine article entitled, “College Soccer: NCAA D1 game model clustering and KPIs derived by machine learning,” we investigated the questions, “How does our game model relate to other programs? And who with a similar game model is pulling it off better than us?” By reverse-engineering KPIs, we...
Two weeks ago, we released a data analysis on NCAA D1 men's soccer. This week, NCAA D1 women's soccer takes the mantle. Using each of the profiled teams' complete data from the 2023 season, this data analysis will look at the key performance metrics and build out a data-driven look...
The NCAA Men's Soccer 2023 season is in the books, with Clemson winning a second national championship in three years. With a full season of data available on Wyscout, we've created a database with over 25,000 values, both directly from Wyscout as well as custom metrics, that offers a complete...
This weekend will see the final four of the NCAA Women's College Cup take place. Florida State takes on Clemson, while BYU takes on Stanford. The final will follow three days later as Cary, North Carolina, plays host to one of the most exciting events on the US sports calendar....
NCAA soccer teams are back on campus and preparing for their season. As preseason is underway, we'll shift our attention to the main actors in the show, the players. Using data collected from Wyscout, this data analysis is the last of our trilogy on NCAA D1 men's soccer. The first...
Speaking with fellow college coaches at showcases and ID camps, data analytics is still in its infancy in America's college soccer scene. And this is regardless of division. Whether NCAA division 1, 2, 3, NAIA or JuCo, integrating data analysis in performance analytics and opposition analysis is still largely neglected....
The USA's NCAA college soccer scene is a world unto its own. Arguably the highest level of amateur football in the world, it offers its student-athletes an opportunity to continue playing the game they love at a high level while earning their university degree. Many schools can also provide facilities...
The UCLA Bruins are one of the strongest sides in NCAA women’s soccer. Until a recent wobble where they drew with USC and lost 2-1 to Oregon State in extra-time, they won their first 8 games in 2021. Since the draw and loss they have bounced back with wins over...
TCU went the fall season of 2020 undefeated in NCAA Women’s soccer, with an 8-0-1 record, and have picked up where they left off by beating Oklahoma 2-0 on March 20th, after having their first two Spring season fixtures against West Virginia and Baylor cancelled. Head Coach Eric Bell, the...
Florida State University have consistently had one of the strongest programs over recent years in NCAA women’s soccer and once again this past season Head Coach Mark Krikorian put together another truly outstanding side. This tactical analysis gives an in-depth analysis of the tactics used by Mark Krikorian by looking...
