NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The fourth-seeded St. Olaf College women's soccer team will visit top-seeded St. Catherine University in the semifinals of the 2024 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women's Soccer Playoffs on Thursday afternoon.

After booking its spot in the semifinals with a 1-0 victory over fifth-seeded Augsburg University, St. Olaf (14-2-3) will travel to St. Paul to take on St. Kate's (8-0-3), which shared the MIAC regular-season title with Carleton College but earned the top seed on the goal-differential tiebreaker. The Oles and Wildcats will kick off at 2 p.m. at Wildcat Soccer Field for a spot in the championship game.

All tickets for the 2024 MIAC Playoffs will be sold and purchased online via HomeTown Ticketing. There will not be cash sales at any venue; however, spectators can purchase tickets using a mobile device, including while at the venue. Tickets are available for purchase immediately. General admission adult tickets are $12 (plus HTT service charge). Student (with ID) tickets are $3 (plus HTT service charge), and children ages five and under are admitted free. Live video and live statistics will be available for those unable to attend in person.

Third-seeded Saint Mary's University will venture to Carleton in Thursday's other semifinal after the Cardinals blanked sixth-seeded Gustavus Adolphus College by a 3-0 score on Monday in Winona. The winners of the two semifinals will meet for the MIAC's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. at the site of the highest remaining seed.

Junior Katie Beaudry headed in a corner kick by classmate Cat Duffy-Shaw in the 38th minute for the lone goal of the game on Monday to send the Oles into the semifinals. The victory was St. Olaf's 14th of the season, setting a new single-season program record, and was the program's second in the MIAC Playoffs. This season marks the Oles' seventh appearance in the field (2004, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024) and is the program's second time advancing to the semifinals under the current format (2022). St. Olaf also appeared in the semifinals in 2004, 2012, 2013 when only the top-four teams made the tournament but has never won a semifinal (0-4).

St. Kate's has earned a spot in the MIAC Playoffs in each of the last nine seasons (no tournament in 2020 due to COVID-19) after never having appeared in the field prior to 2015. The Wildcats are 12-4 all-time in the MIAC Playoffs and are the three-time defending champions after winning titles in 2017, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The four MIAC Playoffs titles put St. Kate's in a tie with Concordia-Moorhead for the most of any MIAC program. The Wildcats are 4-2 all-time in MIAC Playoff semifinals.

Thursday's game will be the first-ever meeting between St. Olaf and St. Kate's in the MIAC Playoffs. The Wildcats won the regular-season meeting 4-1 in Northfield back on Sept. 21 despite the Oles holding advantages of 22-16 in shots and 10-6 in shots on goal. St. Kate's is undefeated (10-0-1) in the last 11 meetings between the two programs, a streak that started in 2014.