CARY, N.C. - One minute remaining:
Beata Olsson is doing the math.
Can Stanford score four goals in that span to tie Monday's NCAA Women's College Soccer Cup National Championship Game?
Florida State is winning 5-1 and closing in on a historic national championship - the 19th for FSU athletics and the fourth for the soccer program.
What goes through the mind of a player on the verge of winning a national championship?
Olsson provided some insight.
"I don't think they can score four goals in a minute," Olsson recalled while laughing to the media at the press conference after the win.
"And then we're down in the corner and I'm thinking, 'Can we score, again?' There were a lot of thoughts at that moment when the clock started counting down."
Celebrate did Olsson and her teammates. Warm embraces near the midfield logo with an oversized 'College Cup' logo as the pure white snow-like confetti rained down on WakeMed Park.
Senior Leilanni Nesbeth gave an impassioned speech, reminding her teammates the team with the best offense and defense just won to loud cheers before they lifted the trophy as a team.
Then came out the championship T-shirts and hats. More embraces and photos. Then cap it all off with the "War Chant" as the team did the chop.
It was quite the celebration.
"I don't know where the ball was, with the goalkeeper or someone. I think I ran the other way when there were 10 seconds left. I just wanted to celebrate," Olsson recalled the moments leading to the celebration and the aftermath.
It was a well-deserved celebration. One that head coach Brian Pensky deserved, winning his first championship.
It was one that the players deserved, after observing a tough leadership change, seeing legendary coach Mark Krikorian quit in March and Pensky take over the program extremely late in the process.
The players who stuck through experienced more heartbreak with a loss in the College Cup semifinals last season.
"I am so happy with how we performed tonight," Olsson said. "I think that just for us to prove that we not only won a national championship but to win it like this. As Brian said, Stanford is a great team.
"We just proved we're a little bit greater. It really fits our team or backline is insane, our goalkeepers are insane. Everyone that plays on this team is incredible."
Historic performance for FSU soccer
Entering Monday's championship game, the Cardinal had allowed just nine goals all season and four since October began. It had been unbeaten in its last 36 matches.
Stanford's top defensive unit allowed just 0.42 goals per game and just one since Nov. 24.
None of that mattered. The Seminoles became the first team to score five goals in a game against Stanford in 23 years. The five goals were the most in a championship game since 2003.
FSU became the first team in program history to finish undefeated and the first one since the 2011 Stanford team to do so in the NCAA.
The Seminoles now have four national championships, second only to the great UNC program's 22.
"When you do a first-ever for a program, it's really special," Pensky said he told his team after a win over Duke on Oct. 22 when they broke a single-season program record for ACC goals with one regular season match left.
"It's hard and at Florida State, it's nearly freaking impossible to do a first-ever. But this group has done a collection of first evers.
"And they're going to be many more as we kind of comb through statistics."
Stanford was a great team. Would have won almost any other year. But the Cardinal just ran into an all-time, historically great team in the Seminoles.
Freshman Jordynn Dudley opened the scoring on a penalty kick in the 29th minute. Thirty seconds later it was 2-0 on a goal from Jody Brown.
Despite FSU giving up its first goal of the postseason and the first since Nov. 5 in the second half, the victory felt inevitable at that point.
Dudley was the Most Outstanding Offensive Player. Lauren Flynn earned Most Outstanding Defensive Player.
This was extremely fun team to watch all season.
Playing for the future
At FSU, while playing for the moment, collecting wins, records and national championships are fine and dandy. Expected as well.
But when it comes to women's sports, players usually know they have more at stake. There is not a ton of representation on ESPN and other TV networks that is easily accessible for younger girls to watch their role models.
So Nesbeth does not take lightly what it means to represent FSU and women's athletics on a huge stage.
"Hopefully the little girls who are at home, watching this national championship game, they are thinking to themselves [and telling] mom and dad, 'I want to play for that team because I want to play in games like that.'
"If they don't know already, we're obviously a great program and have been a consistently great program over time, but we're a family here man and we love each other."
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