Southeastern will host three other NAIA women's soccer teams for the first and second rounds of the NAIA Women's Soccer National Tournament which begins on Thursday.
The 40-team field and first round pairings were released Monday afternoon by the national office.
The Fire enter the tournament with a 13-3-2 record and earned an at-large bid for its sixth-consecutive appearance in the tournament. SEU is playing host to the first round of the tournament for the fifth time in program history.
During SEU's first tournament appearance, it hosted Georgia Gwinnett in the first round of the 2017 national tournament and will do so again this year at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The Grizzlies are making their eighth appearance in the tournament, earning an automatic qualifying spot as the runner-up of the Continental Athletic Conference Tournament. Georgia Gwinnett enters the national tournament with a 5-7-7 overall record. The Fire have won all three of the previous meetings including in Lakeland on October 4th by the score of 2-0.
The winner of that contest will advance to the second round to take on either second-seeded Westmont or third-seeded Lindsey Wilson on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Westmont and Lindsey Wilson will play on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in a matchup of Top 25 teams. Westmont, which hosted SEU last year, comes into the tournament unbeaten at 14-0-3 and were champions of the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament. The Warriors are making their 24th appearance which is second most in the field behind their opponent and has a field-best five national championships.
Lindsey Wilson is making their 25th appearance by earning an at-large bid. The Blue Raiders are 46-19-3 in the national tournament and have won four red banners. LWC is 7-5-4 this season with nine of its games against ranked or receiving votes squads.
Tickets are on sale now at seufire.com/tickets.
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