The ten-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.
[2][3] This was the third Southern Conference tournament title for the Western Carolina women's soccer program and first for head coach Chad Miller.
A tiebreaker was required to determine the second and third seeds of the tournament after East Tennessee State and Samford tied with identical 6–1–2 regular season records.
A second tiebreaker was required to determine the fifth through seventh seeds as Chattanooga, Mercer, and UNC Greensboro all finished with identical 4–4–1 conference records.
Chattanooga was the sixth seed as they defeated Mercer but lost to UNC Greensboro.