{"id":76524,"date":"2025-12-09T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:41:08","slug":"fsu-wins-fifth-national-championship-in-thriller-over-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76524\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU wins fifth national championship in thriller over Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Florida State, national champions once more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Seminoles finished off their NCAA Tournament run on Monday in dramatic fashion against the Stanford Cardinal, scoring in the final minutes of the College Cup Final to claim their fifth national championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">FSU got revenge for its 2-1 loss to Stanford earlier this season, earning a national title at the expense of the Cardinal for the second time in the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unlike the previous matchup, which saw Stanford take a 2-0 lead before half, this one was a defensive back-and-forth that saw Stanford attempt more than double FSU\u2019s shots (18 vs. 8), triple on goal (9 vs. 3). Kate Ockene kept the Cardinal at bay, logging nine saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wrianna Hudson scored in the 86\u2019, finishing off a strong Seminoles attack right when it was most needed. Stanford tried to pull off a furious rally to send the game to extra time but the Seminoles held steady to earn the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Head coach Brian Pensky has now won two national titles over the course of four seasons in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This story will be updated with a full recap shortly.<\/p>\n<p>FSU 1, Stanford 0: Box Score<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Offsides<br \/>FSU: 0<br \/>Stanford: 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State, national champions once more. The Seminoles finished off their NCAA Tournament run on Monday in dramatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,9841],"class_list":["post-76524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}