JMU Soccer Applications Named 2024-25 College Team Academic Award Winners

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – James Madison males’s and girls’s soccer acquired the College Team Academic Award for the 2024-25 educational 12 months, United Soccer Coaches introduced on Friday.

The award is given to all groups who’ve a composite GPA of at the very least 3.0 throughout all the educational 12 months. A complete of 697 soccer workforce throughout males’s and girls’s packages acquired the award for this 12 months. This 12 months sees a rise in recipients from the 471 packages honored in 2023-24. JMU is considered one of 151 faculties with each their males’s and girls’s packages honored. This is the primary time that each packages have been honored in the identical season because the 2022-23 educational 12 months.

The males’s workforce achieved a GPA of three.20 for the 2024-25 educational 12 months. In the autumn, the Dukes had two gamers named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. In the spring, the boys’s program noticed one other choice to the Virginia Sports Information Directors Academic All-State Team, which acknowledges the highest students from each collegiate establishment in Virginia.

The girls’s program is receiving the award for a second straight 12 months, incomes the consideration with a 3.42 total GPA. It is the fifth time within the six seasons the workforce has earned the award, and the 14^th time total. Individually, the Dukes had three gamers on the College Sports Communicators Division I Academic All-District Team within the fall.

The males’s soccer workforce will open their season in opposition to the Fordham Rams at Sentara Park on Thursday, August 21. The girls’s workforce will start their season on the street at NC State on Thursday, August 14, earlier than returning to Sentara Park to tackle the Liberty Flames on the 17^th.