UNC stays #1, Christen Press is POTW

A pair of weekend wins served to keep the North Carolina Tar Heels on the top of this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com Women’s Tournament 64 National Ranking.

North Carolina defeated Middle Tennessee State(w) and Florida this weekend to remain undefeated. Also in this week’s ranking, UCLA drops out of the top 10 with a surprise loss to Colorado.

The Tournament 64 National Ranking is a running effort to project the 64-team NCAA Tournament field, including all automatic conference and at-large bids to the field. It is updated every Monday through the season. You can see the entire ranking here.

Meanwhile, Stanford’s Christen Press was named TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Week based on her 5-goal performance this week for the Cardinal. With the honor, Press, who was last season’s co-player of the season, headlines this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week.

The full TopDrawerSoccer.com Women's Team of the Week for Monday Sept. 13 through Sunday Sept. 19 is as follows.

GK: Danielle de Seriere, UC Irvine
D: Megan Brigman, North Carolina
D: Meg Morris, North Carolina
D: Krystin Miller, Illinois
M: Elizabeth Tucker, Notre Dame
F: Christine Exeter, Louisville
F: Brooke Knowlton, Boston College
F: Tishia Jewell, UCF
F: Sarah Hagen, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
F: Jordan Jackson, Nebraska
F; Christen Press, Stanford

Player of the Week: Christen Press, Stanford

The TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week is chosen after consulting match reports from all DI matches played in the preceding week.