2014 Summit League women's soccer tournament

The 2014 Summit League women's soccer tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Summit League held on November 6 and 8, 2014. The three-match tournament took place at CIBER Field at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium in Denver, Colorado. The four-team single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Denver Pioneers were the defending champions, but were unable to defend their title after they lost the final match to the champion: South Dakota State. The tournament win was South Dakota State's second as a member of the conference, and second for coach Lang Wedemeyer. As tournament champions, South Dakota State earned the Summit League's automatic berth into the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.

2014 Summit League women's soccer tournament
Classification	Division I
Teams	4
Matches	3
Site	CIBER Field Denver, CO
Champions	South Dakota State (2nd title)
Winning coach	Lang Wedemeyer (2nd title)
MVP	Tori Poole (South Dakota State)
Summit League women's soccer tournament «2013  2015»

2014 Summit League women's soccer standings

	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
South Dakota State  ‍†‍‡‍y	5	–	2	–	1		.688			10	–	8	–	2		.550
IUPUI  ‍‍‍	5	–	3	–	0		.625			7	–	10	–	3		.425
Denver  ‍‍‍	5	–	3	–	0		.625			10	–	8	–	2		.550
North Dakota State  ‍‍‍	4	–	2	–	2		.625			8	–	8	–	2		.500
Western Illinois  ‍‍‍	4	–	3	–	1		.563			5	–	12	–	1		.306
Omaha*  ‍‍‍	3	–	3	–	2		.500			5	–	12	–	2		.316
Oral Roberts  ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0		.375			4	–	10	–	3		.324
South Dakota  ‍‍‍	2	–	4	–	2		.375			9	–	8	–	2		.526
Fort Wayne  ‍‍‍	0	–	6	–	2		.125			2	–	14	–	2		.167
* Ineligible for the 2014 NCAA tournament due to transition from Division II
† – Conference champion ‡ – Summit League tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of May 26, 2023 Rankings from NSCAA

Seeding

The top four of the ten teams competing during the regular season qualified for the 2014 tournament. Seeding was based on regular season conference records. IUPUI earned the second seed over Denver, based on IUPUI having the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Pioneers.

Seed	School	Conference Record	Points
1	South Dakota State	5-2-1	16
2	IUPUI	5-3-0	15
3	Denver	5-3-0	15
4	North Dakota State	4-2-2	14

Bracket

	Semifinals Thursday, November 6					Final Saturday, November 8
	1	South Dakota State	2
	4	North Dakota State	1
						1	South Dakota State (PK's)	1 (5)
						3	Denver	1 (4)
	2	IUPUI	0
	3	Denver	1

Schedule

Semifinals

#1 South Dakota State v #4 North Dakota State

November 6, 2014	#1 South Dakota State	2-1	#4 North Dakota State	Denver, CO
3:00 p.m. MT	Tori Poole 1' Tori Poole 58'	Report	Anisha Kinnarath 80'	Stadium: CIBER Field at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium Attendance: 316 Referee: Chris Levesque Assistant referees: Kira Chaffee Assistant referees: William Knause Fourth official: Karen Abt

#2 IUPUI v #3 Denver

November 6, 2014	#2 IUPUI	0-1	#3 Denver	Denver, CO
6:00 p.m. MT		Report	Brooke Boothe 58'	Stadium: CIBER Field at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium Attendance: 316 Referee: Ben Chouaf Assistant referees: Matt Grove Assistant referees: Chris Greer Fourth official: Kira Chaffee

Final

#1 South Dakota State v #3 Denver

November 8, 2014	#1 South Dakota State	1-1 (a.e.t.) (5-4 p)	#3 Denver	Denver, CO
1:00 p.m. MT	Nicole Hatcher 89'	Report	Brooke Boothe 22'	Stadium: CIBER Field at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium Attendance: 314 Referee: Khalaf Al-Latayfeh Assistant referees: Karen Abt Assistant referees: Kira Chaffee Fourth official: Chris Greer
	Penalties
	Madison Yueill Diana Potterveld Alyssa Brazil Shelby Raper Nicole Hatcher Tori Poole		Jocelyn Loomis Shannen Johnson Stella Norman Lauren Conley Francesca Garzelloni Sam Harder

All-Tournament Team

Source:

Player	Team
Tori Poole	South Dakota State
Diana Potterveld
Nicole Inskeep
Nicole Hatcher
Brooke Boothe	Denver
Francesca Garzelloni
Tina Vargas
Anna Rode	IUPUI
Kalli Shepler-Tucker
Anisha Kinnarath	North Dakota State
Tristyn Walczak

MVP in bold