Women’s Soccer Earns 20th United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award
United Soccer Coaches Announces Team Academic Award Winners
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The 2023-24 UNC Greensboro (UNCG) women's soccer team was awarded its 20th United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award, as announced by the organization last week. UNCG had a 3.69 GPA for the 2023-24 academic year, and marking the eighth-straight year that the Spartans have received the honor.
The award, which was initiated in 1996, honors collegiate and high school men's and women's soccer teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.00 cumulative team grade-point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale.
United Soccer Coaches recognized 457 teams, 188 men and 269 women. Of that total, 112 schools had both their men's and women's programs honored which included the UNCG men's soccer team with its 3.34 GPA. The Spartans joined Western Carolina University as the only two Southern Conference (SoCon) women's soccer teams to make the list this year.
The 2023-24 Spartan team posted a 7-9-3 overall record and a 4-4-1 SoCon mark, earning five clean sheets. Twenty-eight student-athletes from last years' squad were named to the All-SoCon Academic Honor Roll for having a 3.0 GPA or higher, and 18 earned SoCon Commissioner's Medals for earning a 3.8 or higher throughout the year. In the fall, 13 were named to the SoCon Fall Academic All-Conference Team for carrying a 3.3 cumulative GPA at the conclusion of the fall semester and competing in at least half of their teams' competitions. Parker Sikora, Ava Kiss, Mel Herrera, Dalani Stephens, Chloe Lausell and Caroline Woods were selected to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® team in November for having a 3.5 cumulative GPA and having played in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
UP NEXT: The 2024 squad concludes its exhibition schedule with one final game today, Wednesday, August 14 at home against Barton College with a start time of 6:00 p.m., before hitting the road to face UNC Wilmington in the season opener on Sunday, August 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the UNCW Soccer Stadium.
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