We are two weeks into the 2024 DII women’s soccer season. The top 25 is full of familiar faces, but there has been a tremendous amount of movement thus far in just three polls.
With so much fluidness in the top 25 — and many teams still finding their way — it’s a good time to check in with some of the ranked teams and see how the DII women’s soccer landscape as conference play sets to open this week.
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It’s not lonely at the top. The top 5 of DII women’s soccer has been in constant flux since the preseason poll. Preseason No. 1 Point Loma, which didn’t allow a goal in its five tournament matches en route to the national championship last year, has already allowed three goals and picked up a loss. There’s not much reason to hit the panic button, but it did see the fall from the No. 1 spot all the way to No. 17.
Grand Valley State — which should pretty much never start a season outside the top 5 but inexplicably did — is up to its Lakers’ ways and back to No. 1 in DII. The Lakers began the season with a 1-0 win over No. 9 Ashland — a rematch of the 2023 Midwest Region final that ended with the same score — and ended this past week with a 2-1 win over No. 4 Central Missouri, who…
