2025-26 Women's Soccer News
Playing key roles on back-to-back region championship squads, Cowley College sophomores Sabrina Barbosa and Louyse Cristine will take their talents to Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX, as they recently signed letters of intent to continue their soccer and academic careers at the NAIA school.
Members of the nationally ranked Cowley College men's and women's soccer teams hosted a free soccer clinic for area school children over the weekend at the Travis Hafner Training Center in Arkansas City, KS. A total of 115 children took part in the two sessions.
Known as one of the top defensive soccer players in all of the NJCAA, Cowley College sophomore Sthefany Silva will take her talents to the next level as she recently signed a letter of intent to continue her soccer and academic career at NCAA Division II Pittsburg State University.
For the second-straight season, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference saw seven different players from four different institutions land on the NJCAA’s Division 1 and Division 2 Women’s Soccer All-America Teams.
With a chance to advance to play for the program’s first-ever national title, the No. 5-seed Cowley College women’s soccer team scored the opening goal of its semifinal game against the top-seeded and unbeaten Daytona State College (FL) before losing in overtime by a score of 2-1 at Thursday’s NJCAA Division I Women’s Soccer National Championships in Enid, OK.
Bouncing back from its first loss of the season, the No. 5-seed Cowley College women’s soccer team advanced to the semifinals of the NJCAA Division I Women’s Soccer National Championships in Enid, OK, with a 2-0 win over No. 4-seed Iowa Western on Tuesday at the Advance Soccer Complex.
Allowing a goal in the first five minutes of its national tournament opener against No. 9-seed Tyler Junior College, the No. 5-seed Cowley College women’s soccer team could not recover while suffering its first defeat of the season in a 1-0 loss to the Apaches on Monday in the opening game of the NJCAA Division I Women’s Soccer National Championships in Enid, OK.
Winners of the 2025 NJCAA D1 Women’s Soccer Plains District Tournament last Saturday, the Cowley College women’s soccer team has earned the number five overall seed in the upcoming 2025 NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Soccer National Tournament in Enid, Oklahoma.
Showing the depth of its team, the No. 7-ranked Cowley College women’s soccer team defeated 12th-ranked Hutchinson Community College 3-0 in the Plains District title game played Saturday in Kansas City, KS. With the win, the Lady Tigers advance to their third straight national tournament.
The 2025 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference/NJCAA Region 6 Division 1 postseason women’s soccer selections are led by Coach of the Year Roberto Dos Santos of Cowley College, with Cowley freshman Saki Sanno named Offensive Player of the Year and Hutchinson sophomore Anastasia Pokrandt and Cowley sophomore Sthefany Silva named Co-Defensive Players of the Year. All totaled, Cowley had seven all-conference selections.
The top-seeded Cowley College women’s soccer team scored five goals in the first half of its game against fourth-seeded Barton on Wednesday in Arkansas City and cruised to a 6-0 win over the Cougars in the semifinals of the Plains District Tournament.
Facing the Coffeyville Community College women’s soccer team for the second time in a week, the top-seeded Cowley College Lady Tigers defeated the eighth-seeded Lady Red Ravens 3-0 on Saturday in the First Round of the Plains District Tournament played in Arkansas City.
Leading the Cowley College soccer teams to wins that clinched Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference D1 soccer regular season titles, Tiger players Saki Sanno and Kanta Ishii have each earned NJCAA D1 Soccer Week 9 Player of the Week honors.
Continuing its dominating run through the Jayhawk Conference, the No. 8-ranked Cowley College women’s soccer team remained unbeaten and captured the conference title with a 5-0 shutout at Dodge City on Wednesday.
Getting a late scoring strike from freshman Sara Cortes and then thwarting a Barton County penalty kick in the game’s final minutes, the No. 8-ranked Cowley College women’s soccer team came away with a 2-1 win over the Cougars on Saturday in Great Bend, KS.
Scoring its second-most goals in a game this season, the No.8-ranked Cowley College women’s soccer team scored four second-half goals to pull away for a 5-2 victory over Garden City on Wednesday at the Mark A. Phillips Athletic Complex.
