Contact: Zach Witken, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Sept. 28, 2020 - The North Central College men's soccer team has been selected as a 2019-2020 United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award winner, announced last week by the organization. 

 
To receive the award, each school has to maintain a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average for during the 2019-2020 academic year. There were 897 teams that received the award for last year. This is the eighth time the men's soccer team has received the award in the past decade.  
 
The Cardinals received the award with a 3.35 GPA last year while posting a 11-5-3 overall record and 6-2 record in conference play. They qualified for the CCIW Tournament for the third straight year.  

North Central is one of 178 institutions from all Divisions that had both of its men's and women's programs earn a spot on the Team Academic Award list. 
 
Other CCIW schools to receive the men's award are Illinois Wesleyan University and North Park University.