COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Texas A&M Aggies were honored for their scholastic endeavors as they garnered the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Award. The organization announced its list of honorees for the 2014-15 academic year on Thursday.
For a team to be considered for the NSCAA Team Academic Award, it must have a composite team GPA of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) for all team members who appeared on the official NCAA roster forms for the fall season (2014). Coach G Guerrieri's squad earned the award for the fourth consecutive year and the sixth year overall, logging a 3.17 GPA for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
"It says a lot about the quality of the people we have on this team," Guerrieri said. "The players continue to make us proud with their work in the classroom. This is an important honor because it's an academic award and it's a team award. We embrace both of those things in our program, so it is great for them to be recognized for it."
The Aggies' academic standing was buoyed by outstanding performances in the classroom by then-seniors Leigh Edwards, Shea Groom, Annie Kunz and Meghan Streight, then-juniors Janae Cousineau, Kristi Leonard and Karlie Mueller and then-sophomore Grace Wright who all met the qualifications to be nominated for the Capital One Academic All-America team, as they each owned a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher, appeared in at least 50 percent of the team's games and were enrolled in class for at Texas A&M for at least one year.
In 2014, Groom earned Capital One Academic All-America First Team status. Last season, Groom and Streight earned NSCAA Scholar All-America First Team recognition for the second consecutive season. Texas A&M and UCLA were the only teams to have multiple players selected to the 12-player first-team.
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Texas A&M had five players earn NSCAA Scholar All-South Region Team distinction, the only squad with more than three designees. Groom, Kunz and Streight were named to the NSCAA All-South Region First Team, Cousineau was named to the Second Team and Edwards was selected for the Third Team.
Last year's squad experienced success on the field as well as in the classroom, finishing with a school-record 22 wins (22-3-2), earning the program's first-ever trip to the College Cup and winning both the SEC regular-season and tournament crowns for the second consecutive season.
For a team to be considered for the NSCAA Team Academic Award, it must have a composite team GPA of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) for all team members who appeared on the official NCAA roster forms for the fall season (2014). Coach G Guerrieri's squad earned the award for the fourth consecutive year and the sixth year overall, logging a 3.17 GPA for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
"It says a lot about the quality of the people we have on this team," Guerrieri said. "The players continue to make us proud with their work in the classroom. This is an important honor because it's an academic award and it's a team award. We embrace both of those things in our program, so it is great for them to be recognized for it."
The Aggies' academic standing was buoyed by outstanding performances in the classroom by then-seniors Leigh Edwards, Shea Groom, Annie Kunz and Meghan Streight, then-juniors Janae Cousineau, Kristi Leonard and Karlie Mueller and then-sophomore Grace Wright who all met the qualifications to be nominated for the Capital One Academic All-America team, as they each owned a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher, appeared in at least 50 percent of the team's games and were enrolled in class for at Texas A&M for at least one year.
In 2014, Groom earned Capital One Academic All-America First Team status. Last season, Groom and Streight earned NSCAA Scholar All-America First Team recognition for the second consecutive season. Texas A&M and UCLA were the only teams to have multiple players selected to the 12-player first-team.
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Texas A&M had five players earn NSCAA Scholar All-South Region Team distinction, the only squad with more than three designees. Groom, Kunz and Streight were named to the NSCAA All-South Region First Team, Cousineau was named to the Second Team and Edwards was selected for the Third Team.
Last year's squad experienced success on the field as well as in the classroom, finishing with a school-record 22 wins (22-3-2), earning the program's first-ever trip to the College Cup and winning both the SEC regular-season and tournament crowns for the second consecutive season.