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Cowgirl Soccer Top 20 Moments, 1996-2014
August 07, 2015 | Cowgirl Soccer
The Oklahoma State Cowgirl soccer program will mark its 20th season in 2015. As we celebrate two decades of milestones, OSU head coach Colin Carmichael and assistant coach Karen Hancock, who each have been with the program since its inception and served stints as head coaches to help build the program into a national power, collaborated on a list of the top 20 moments in Cowgirl soccer history. Over the next month, we'll reveal their list (which is in no particular order) on www.okstate.com.
Getting a No. 2 national seed in 2011 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, highest NCAA tourney seed in program history
The 2011 season was the most successful in program history, and the Cowgirls were rewarded with one of 16 national seeds in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship for the fourth time in their history.
The No. 2 national seed topped the No. 3 seed OSU garnered in 2010; the Cowgirls were selected as a No. 4 seed in 2006 and 2008.
OSU earned the No. 2 seed on the strength of going undefeated during the regular season and advancing to the Big 12 Championship title game. Along the way, the Cowgirls recorded a school-record 21-game unbeaten streak.
The program also recorded its highest-ever national ranking in 2011 as it occupied the No. 2 spot in the polls for eight consecutive weeks entering the NCAA tournament.
OSU's dominance carried it to the NCAA quarterfinals, where it fell to top-ranked and eventual NCAA champion Stanford in the Elite Eight and finished the season with a 22-2-2 mark.
Colin Carmichael: "Getting recognized as a top 16 seed is very difficult to achieve and to get a two seed was great. We felt like we deserved a No. 1 seed that year to be quite honest but to get the No. 2 meant we were hosting right through to the Elite Eight which gave us a home-field advantage that clearly helped us. The teams we played that year in the tournament were quality — we had to beat Maryland and Illinois and those are two really tough games. Getting out to Stanford and losing in overtime was tough, but at the same time we knew they were an awesome team."
Getting a No. 2 national seed in 2011 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship, highest NCAA tourney seed in program history
The 2011 season was the most successful in program history, and the Cowgirls were rewarded with one of 16 national seeds in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship for the fourth time in their history.
The No. 2 national seed topped the No. 3 seed OSU garnered in 2010; the Cowgirls were selected as a No. 4 seed in 2006 and 2008.
OSU earned the No. 2 seed on the strength of going undefeated during the regular season and advancing to the Big 12 Championship title game. Along the way, the Cowgirls recorded a school-record 21-game unbeaten streak.
The program also recorded its highest-ever national ranking in 2011 as it occupied the No. 2 spot in the polls for eight consecutive weeks entering the NCAA tournament.
OSU's dominance carried it to the NCAA quarterfinals, where it fell to top-ranked and eventual NCAA champion Stanford in the Elite Eight and finished the season with a 22-2-2 mark.
Colin Carmichael: "Getting recognized as a top 16 seed is very difficult to achieve and to get a two seed was great. We felt like we deserved a No. 1 seed that year to be quite honest but to get the No. 2 meant we were hosting right through to the Elite Eight which gave us a home-field advantage that clearly helped us. The teams we played that year in the tournament were quality — we had to beat Maryland and Illinois and those are two really tough games. Getting out to Stanford and losing in overtime was tough, but at the same time we knew they were an awesome team."
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