Today’s ranking is the program’s best position in a preseason poll and one spot better than the team’s ranking in the 2016 National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA) Division I Women’s Preseason Ranking. The Mountaineers were ranked No. 7 in the final 2015 TopDrawerSoccer.com Top 25 Poll.
The league coaches’ pick to win its fifth straight Big 12 Conference regular-season title, WVU is the lone conference team ranked in today’s poll.
Stanford ranks No. 1 and is followed by Florida State at No. 2. Duke and Penn State, two of WVU’s 2016 opponents, sit at No.