SLCC Women's Soccer

Salt Lake Community College women's soccer plays at the Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman under head coach Amy Lepeilbet. It competes in NJCAA Division I and the Scenic West Athletic Conference, and the conference's standings had it first on September 24.

Unbeaten through eight

SLCC opened with a 4-0 win over No. 14 Laramie County in Murray on August 22, won its first four matches, drew 1-1 at No. 20 Snow College on September 10, and won the next three (rankings as SLCC's recaps stated them). The Bruins conceded five goals in those eight matches and never more than one in a game.

Seanna Harris, a sophomore from Chandler, Arizona, led the team with six goals after September 17 and scored twice more against CSI on September 19. Natalie Shober of Herriman led in assists with four. Against CSI the Bruins fell behind in the 17th minute, then won 3-1 with Harris's 68th-minute penalty, a 77th-minute goal from Keagan Grange and a second from Harris.

18-0 in Kennewick

On September 24 SLCC won 18-0 at Pacific Northwest Christian College in Kennewick, Washington, its biggest result of the season. Nine different players scored, led by Nanami Nakagawa with five and Harris with four, and goalkeepers Manaka Shindo and Lexie Lund shared the shutout (full recap).

What comes next

SLCC won 3-0 at North Idaho in Worley, Idaho, on September 26, its fifth straight win. SLCC then drew 1-1 with USU Eastern at home on October 3 and won 5-0 at Truckee Meadows on October 8. Its first loss came 1-0 at College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls on October 10, and on October 15 it drew 1-1 with Snow College in Herriman, per SLCC's schedule. It then beat Colorado Northwestern 5-0 on October 17 and Pacific Northwest Christian 14-0 on October 22. On Sophomore Day, October 24, a 6-0 win over North Idaho clinched the 2026 SWAC regular-season championship, per SLCC's recap; Seanna Harris scored a hat trick to finish as the conference's leading scorer, and the Bruins ended the regular season 13-1-3 and 10-1-3 in the Scenic West. As the top seed, as SLCC's recap called it, the Bruins beat USU Eastern 2-0 in the Region 18 Tournament semifinal at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on October 29: Seanna Harris converted a first-half penalty, Oakley Zenger scored in the 26th minute and Manaka Shindo made seven saves. That left SLCC 14-1-3 before the October 31 championship game, per its schedule. In the final the Bruins drew 2-2 with Snow College at Zions Bank Stadium and won 4-2 on penalty kicks for the Region 18 title, with Seanna Harris named tournament MVP, per SLCC's recap; the schedule counts the shootout as a win. On November 7 they lost 2-0 to Arizona Western, which SLCC's recap headline called top-ranked, in the West District championship in Yuma, Arizona, and stood 15-2-3 as of November 8, per the schedule.

A Utah roster

Twenty-three of the 27 players list Utah hometowns. Three came from Ridgeline in Millville (Ila Webb, Keagan Grange and Kenley Parkinson), two from Skyridge in Lehi (Leah and Kate Scoville) and two from Mountain Ridge in Herriman (Jayla McFarland and Shober). The rest of the roster is from Fukuoka and Osaka in Japan, Chandler, Arizona, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.