{"id":254406,"date":"2022-08-16T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=254406"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:43:25","slug":"uj-womens-soccer-picked-to-win-gpac-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=254406","title":{"rendered":"UJ women&#8217;s soccer picked to win GPAC this season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jamestowm  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/article\/6631\">UJ)<\/a> The University of Jamestown women\u2019s soccer team is the favorite to win the GPAC this season according to the preseason coaches\u2019 poll released by the conference office Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamestown received 11 of 13 first-place votes and totaled 143 points for the poll\u2019s top spot. Briar Cliff (Iowa) received the other two first-place votes and was second with 133 points, while Hastings (Neb.) rounded out the top three with 108 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UJ was the 2021 GPAC regular season champion with an 11-0-1 conference record and qualified for the NAIA national tournament, finishing the season with a record of 18-2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naia.org\/sports\/wsoc\/2022-23\/Releases\/WSOC_PreseasonRating_8_10_22\">NAIA Preseason Coaches\u2019 Top 25 Poll<\/a>, Jamestown was the fourth team in the receiving votes category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jimmies begin the season against&nbsp;No. 9 Aquinas (Mich.) in St. Louis, Mo., on August 26. The first home match is set for September 11 against Rocky Mountain (Mont.) at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 GPAC women\u2019s soccer season schedule will consist of 12 league games as all 13 teams will compete for the conference crown. Presentation College will again play in the GPAC as an affiliate member in men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>2022 GPAC Preseason Women\u2019s Soccer Coaches\u2019 Poll:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Place \u2013 Team \u2013 Pts (1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Place Votes)<\/em><\/strong><br>1. Jamestown \u2013 143 (11)<br>2. Briar Cliff \u2013 133 (2)<br>3. Hastings \u2013 108<br>4. Morningside \u2013 106<br>5. Midland \u2013 105<br>6. Concordia \u2013 96<br>7. Dordt \u2013 80<br>8. College of Saint Mary \u2013 64<br>9. Dakota Wesleyan \u2013 56<br>10. Northwestern \u2013 52<br>11. Doane \u2013 30<br>12. Presentation \u2013 28<br>13. Mount Marty \u2013 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestowm (UJ) The University of Jamestown women\u2019s soccer team is the favorite to win the GPAC this season according to the preseason coaches\u2019 poll released by the conference office Monday. Jamestown received 11 of 13 first-place votes and totaled 143 points for the poll\u2019s top spot. Briar Cliff (Iowa) received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254408,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254406\/revisions\/254408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}