PURCHASE, N.Y. – Manhattanville Women's Soccer comes in sixth in the Skyline Preseason Coaches Poll.
 
The Valiants concluded the 2024 season with a 6-7-4 overall record and a 5-4-2 conference record.
 
Key Returners for Manhattanville
 
Senior Macey Girard (Branford, Conn./Branford) returns to the pitch after a stellar junior season. Starting in all 17 games, Girard allowed just 19 goals on 115 shots faced, racking up a dominant 1.31 goals-against average. With 56 saves in the season, she became the tenth goalkeeper in Manhattanville women's soccer's books to surpass the 200 career saves mark.
 
Classmate Caela Vasilkioti (Harrison, N.Y./Harrison) will continue to make an impact on the defensive line during the upcoming season. Tallying over 1,100 minutes in the 2024 contests, Vasilkiotl became a key aspect of the Valiant defensive unit, halting opponents to an average of 1.24 goals per game.
 
Fellow seniors Stephanie Sanchez (Rye, N.Y./The Masters School) and Alessia Cioffi (Pawling, N.Y./Pawling) front the offensive efforts entering the 2025 season.
 
Skyline All-Conference Second team recipient, Sanchez, racked up 16 points on five goals and led the team in assists, dishing out six on the season. She recorded her second career hat-trick against Yeshiva. Sanchez sent her teammates to goal three times, earning her way into the record book on Oct. 8 with the new title of 18th  three-assist game in program history.
 
Cioffi recorded 12 points on the year and marked up the record book, earning the top-20 spot as the 17th player in program history with a seven-point match. Serving four to her teammates and recording four herself, she returns to the pitch looking to continue her impact.
 
 
The Valiants open up the 2025 season at home against the Rangers of Drew University. The season will kick off with a 6 p.m. start on Friday. Manhattanville will begin conference play with a home match against Yeshiva on Sept. 11.
 
 
The full results of the 2025 Skyline Conference Women's Soccer Preseason Coaches Poll are below:
 
Rank, Team (first-place votes), Pts.
1. Farmingdale State (7), 110
2. Mount Saint Vincent (3), 109
3. Merchant Marine, 102
4. St. Joseph's Long Island (1), 90
5. Sarah Lawrence (1), 83
6. Manhattanville – 70
7. Mount Saint Mary – 68
T8. Maritime– 44
T8. Purchase– 44
10. Old Westbury – 40
11. Saint Joseph's Brooklyn – 21
12. Yeshiva – 11