| Tournament details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country |  United States | ||
| City |  Carbondale, Illinois | ||
| Teams | 16 | ||
| Venue(s) | Southern Illinois University | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Penn State (1st title) | ||
| Runner-up | California | ||
| Third place | Delaware | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 27 | ||
| Goals scored | 86 (3.19 per match) | ||
| |||
The 1980 Division I AIAW-USFHA field hockey tournament was the sixth annual single-elimination tournament joint hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and the United States Field Hockey Association to determine the national champion of women's collegiate field hockey among their Division I members in the United States, the culmination of the 1980 AIAW Division I field hockey season.[1]
This was the final AIAW Division I tournament before the NCAA introduced its own tournament for its affiliated field hockey programs. As such, this was the final tournament a sixteen-team field.
Penn State won its first AIAW national title, defeating California in the final, 1–0.
The tournament was played at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
Bracket
Championship
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Championship | ||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Davis & Elkins | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Davis & Elkins | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| California | 2** | ||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| William & Mary | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| California | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| California | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Ursinus | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| California | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Old Dominion | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 4 (ps) | ||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 3* | ||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State | 2 | Third place | |||||||||||||
| Washington State | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State | 0 | San Jose State | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Penn State | 2 | Delaware | 3** | ||||||||||||
| Miami (OH) | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Penn State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Consolation
| Consolation first round | Consolation quarterfinals | Consolation semifinals | Fifth place | ||||||||||||
| Old Dominion | 1 (ps) | ||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Old Dominion | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Davis & Elkins | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Old Dominion | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Washington State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Miami (OH) | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Miami (OH) | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Old Dominion | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| William & Mary | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ursinus | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| William & Mary | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Long Beach State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
- * indicates an overtime period
See also
- 1980 AIAW Division II field hockey tournament
- 1980 AIAW Division III field hockey tournament
References
- ↑ "AIAW Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 5 November 2023.