Athletics
No. 1 seed USF won its fourth straight American Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Championship and second straight conference tournament title, capturing the 2020 AAC Tournament with a 4-0 win over Cincinnati Saturday, April 17, at Corbett Soccer Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
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Bulls have banner spring, claim four conference titles USF ATHLETICS INCREASED its conference championship total to 23 in the American Athletic Conference since joining in 2013 and to 127 overall in department history as the women’s basketball, women’s soccer, men’s golf and baseball programs all won conference championships in the spring. The four teams to claim titles equaled the Bulls’ best season in the AAC, also winning four in 2016-17. For head coach Jose Fernandez’s women’s basketball team, it marked the first conference championship in program history as the Bulls won both the regular season and conference tournament championships, defeating arch rival UCF to clinch both titles, and earned the program’s
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seventh NCAA Tournament bid under Fernandez. Fernandez was named the AAC Coach of the Year and a finalist for the WBCA National Coach of the Year award, while five Bulls players earned all-conference honors, including first team selections for forward Bethy Mununga and guard Elena Tsineke. The Bulls posted a 19-4 record on the year and finished ranked No. 19 in the final Associated Press poll after reaching as high as the No. 12 ranking during the year, the highest in program history. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor declared April 8 as USF Women’s Basketball Team Day and presented the team with a proclamation in the courtyard outside Old City Hall. Meanwhile the women’s soccer and men’s golf programs continued their American Athletic Conference dominance. Head coach Denise Schilte-Brown led her women’s soccer team to both the conference regular season and tournament titles, marking the fourth straight season they
