South Florida Bulls women's soccer

USF's women's soccer team was founded in 1995, exactly 30 years after the men's soccer team began play as the first sports team in USF history.[2] The first women's soccer coach in USF history was T. Logan Fleck, who also served as USF's men's soccer coach from 1994–1996. The program got off to a good start under Fleck and went 11–3 in its first season. The first team contained no scholarship players and mainly played Division II opponents, but still defeated three Division I teams.[3] The team then entered a rough patch after joining Conference USA with the rest of USF's sports teams in 1996, finishing 6–11–1 overall and 2–7 against in conference opponents.[4] USF won the regular season C-USA title in just their third season in the conference and fourth season of existence going 9–0–2 against conference foes and 15–1–3 overall, but lost to Marquette in the Conference USA Tournament Championship game. The Bulls would never again come near a Conference USA championship, falling as low as 1–8–1 in conference games in 2001 and leaving for the Big East in 2005. Fleck was fired following the Bulls 2006 campaign finishing 6–10–1.

Denise Schilte-Brown was hired to replace T. Logan Fleck as the Bulls head coach in December 2006.[5] But USF continued to struggle in the Big East, finishing with a winning record in conference just three times.[6] USF made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 2010 after a 11–4–3 regular season and reaching the Big East Tournament Championship game where they fell to West Virginia 1–0.[7] The Bulls won their first ever NCAA Tournament game by upsetting highly favored Auburn 3–1 in the first round then fell to #2 seed Florida State 2–1 in round two.[8]

After the Big East Conference realignment in the early 2010s, USF became a member of the American Athletic Conference starting in the 2013 season. The Bulls quickly found success in their new conference by making the semifinals of the 2013 conference tournament. In 2014, the Bulls won the regular season conference title and made the AAC Tournament Championship game, which they lost on penalty kicks 3–2.[9] The Bulls appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in program history but fell in the first round. USF went to the AAC Tournament Championship game again in 2015, but lost the championship game on penalty kicks for the second year in a row. Also for the second straight year, the Bulls had a first round exit in the 2015 NCAA Tournament. In 2017, USF finished second in the conference during the regular season to arch rival Central Florida and the two would go on to meet in the AAC Tournament Championship game. There, the Bulls finally exorcised their demons and won on penalty kicks 5–3 for their first ever conference tournament championship.[10] This gave USF its first autobid to the NCAA Tournament in program history. The Bulls won their first round game in the tournament 3–0 against FGCU but were eliminated with a 1–0 loss to #3 Florida in the second round.

USF followed their conference tournament championship with a regular season conference title and appearance in the AAC Tournament Championship, but lost to Memphis 3–0. They returned to the NCAA Tournament where they beat Albany 5–1 in the first round before losing 3–1 to eventual national champion Florida State. The Bulls and Memphis switched their conference results the next season, with USF coming in second to undefeated Memphis in the regular season then defeating the Tigers in the 2019 conference tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, USF upset Florida 4–2 in the first round, then shut out #4 Washington 2–0 to win a team record 16 games for the season and reach the Round of 16 for the first time, where they were defeated 2–1 by #1 Florida State, being eliminated by the Seminoles for the second year in a row.