2026 Women’s Soccer Top 25

[CentPA]

Busy day today (Wednesday) for the top 25!  16 of the top 25 teams see action today.

There are two games today that pit two top 25 teams against each other.  One game is a matchup between top 10 teams as #6 Rowan travels to #8 Messiah for a 5pm game.  The other involves #17 William Smith traveling to #22 Rochester for a 7:30pm start.

At 4pm there is a resumption of a game from September 9th that got postponed due to weather.  #20 Grove City will host (RV) Carnegie Mellon with the game 10 minutes in and Carnegie Mellon up 1-0.

Another interesting game is at 7pm #3 Chicago will play at Calvin.  Calvin currently sits at 4-1-0 for the year having just beaten Case Western 2-1 at home on Saturday.  We'll see how well Calvin does again at home playing another UAA team.  Speaking of Case Western, they play at #14 Penn State-Behrend at 6pm.

Also at 6pm, #11 University of Wisconsin - La Crosse will host North Park for the first ever meeting between these two schools.  North Park has played 8 different University of Wisconsin schools and now today's game against La-Crosse will make that 9.

Out west #12 Pomona-Pitzer will be at home taking on their sixth street rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripts in a SCIAC conference matchup (7pm EDT/ 4pm local).

These are just some of the games being played today to wet your appetite. 

[Gregory Sager]

Whet your appetite, not "wet". Good preview, though!

One correction: North Park has only played five of the eight WIAC schools in women's soccer since NPU began the program back in 1995. After tonight's contest at UW-La Crosse the Vikings will still have yet to face UW-River Falls and UW-Eau Claire.

Emma Woodley has certainly not shied away from having NPU play tough competition, and taking on the #11 Eagles in western Wisconsin is further proof of that. Massey Ratings gives the Vikings a mere 7% chance of winning tonight's game. I just hope that the Vikings can build upon Saturday's confidence-building steamrolling of Coe and acquit themselves well against an outstanding opponent.