Elon Draws No. 2 Seed Duke in 2025 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship

Elon Draws No. 2 Seed Duke in 2025 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship

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Dylan Smith

RICHMOND, Va. – One day after securing just its second CAA Championship, the Elon women’s soccer team (11-2-7) will head to Durham, N.C., and face No. 2 seed Duke (13-4-1) in the opening round of the 2025 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship.
 
The Phoenix opens play against the Blue Devils on Friday at 6 p.m. The first-round contest will be streamed live on ESPN+. The winner of the opening round matchup will face the winner between Maine (6-7-4) and No. 7 seed UCF (11-3-5).
 
Elon will make its first appearance in the national postseason slate since the 2021 Spring season. The Phoenix enter the national tournament on an eight-game unbeaten streak, going 5-0-3 over that span. Goalkeeper and CAA Women’s Soccer Championship Most Outstanding Player Katie Bisgrove has been vital to that success, allowing just six goals for a 0.71 GAA. The sophomore keeper has also made 52 saves in the last 760 minutes of action.
 
The Phoenix is coming off its second consecutive match that needed penalty kicks to decide an advancing team. After moving on with a 6-5 result in PKs to take down top seed and South Division Champion UNCW, Elon turned to Bisgrove again to stonewall the North Division’s No. 2 seed Stony Brook on their home turf. The Ridgewood, N.J., native made 10 stops in regulation and made two more saves in the tiebreaker to secure the league crown, 6-5 on PKs, marking the CAA’s first championship game to be decided on penalty kicks.
 
Elon paces the conference with a +23 goal differential this season and is one of two league programs to boast a GAA under one with a 0.636 mark (19th in NCAA). The Phoenix is also third in the nation with a 0.890 save percentage. Bisgrove has logged nine clean sheets this season, good for 19th in NCAA Division I.
 
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