NSCAA Team Academic Awards Announced; All Eight League Schools Represented

NSCAA Team Academic Award Release

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- All eight Ivy League schools were represented on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Awards list for the 2011-12 campaign, announced Friday.

A total of 722 college soccer teams (221, 501 women) posted a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher, thereby earning the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 2011-12 academic year.

Of the 722 total honorees, 150 schools had both their men’s and women’s programs recognized, including Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Princeton. Those squads were joined by the Brown men’s team, the Cornell women’s team and the Yale men’s team.