Who's in, who's out? FHSAA releases girls soccer playoff brackets for Northeast Florida
The numbers are crunched and the brackets are here, after the Florida High School Athletic Association released its girls soccer playoff assignments Friday for the 2023-24 postseason.
Friday's bracket release included several miscues by the FHSAA, including a bizarre moment in which the association omitted St. Johns Country Day — winner of 11 consecutive titles from 2012 and 2022 — and listed Tallahassee St. John Paul II twice in the same region. The association paused the broadcast for about two minutes to address the error.
In its initial release, the FHSAA also mistakenly included Harvest Community as a playoff team in Region 3-2A. The Arlington school does not compete in district girls soccer.
Reigning Class 7A champion Bartram Trail, fresh off Thursday's win over formerly-unbeaten Creekside, could be on a collision course with the Longleaf Pine Parkway rivals once more. Both qualified in Region 1-7A, with Bartram Trail leapfrogging the Knights to the top seed.
The bubble burst for Bolles, which missed out on FHSAA regionals for the first time since 1990, and for Fletcher, just two years removed from its first-ever state title.
While champions of the just-completed district tournaments qualified automatically, the FHSAA used its ranking formula to assign four at-large bids per class per region to compete in the playoffs.
Playoffs begin Tuesday for Classes 2A-4A and on Feb. 13 for Classes 5A-7A.
REGION 1-7A
(8) Lake Brantley at (1) Bartram Trail
(5) Atlantic Coast at (4) Hagerty
(6) Clermont East Ridge at (3) Lake Mary
(7) Winter Park at (2) Creekside
REGION 1-6A
(8) Gulf Breeze at (1) Ponte Vedra
(5) Pace at (4) Tallahassee Chiles
(6) Nease at (3) Navarre
(7) Springstead at (2) Niceville
REGION 1-5A
(8) Choctawhatchee at (1) Tallahassee Lincoln
(5) Fort Walton Beach at (4) Lecanto
(6) Orange Park at (3) Clay
(7) Ocala Vanguard at (2) Beachside
REGION 1-4A
(8) Paxon at (1) South Walton
(5) Wakulla at (4) Fernandina Beach
(6) West Florida at (3) Bishop Kenny
(7) Alachua Santa Fe at (2) Stanton
REGION 1-3A
(8) Keystone Heights at (1) P.K. Yonge
(5) Tallahassee Maclay at (4) North Bay Haven
(6) Wolfson at (3) Episcopal
(7) Pensacola Catholic at (2) Florida High
REGION 1-2A
(8) St. Joseph at (1) St. Johns Country Day
(4) University Christian at (5) Mayo Lafayette
(6) St. John Paul II at (3) Mount Dora Christian
(7) Academy at the Lakes at (2) Christ's Church
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: FHSAA girls soccer playoffs: 2024 brackets for Northeast Florida
