UCLA Soccer Applications Obtain Team Academic Awards

LOS ANGELES – For the eight consecutive 12 months, each the UCLA males’s and girls’s soccer applications have earned College Team Academic Awards from the United Soccer Coaches.

UCLA was certainly one of 161 faculties, throughout all NCAA divisions, to have each their males’s and girls’s groups acknowledged for the 2024-25 season.

The Bruin males recorded a 3.36 GPA throughout the newest college 12 months, incomes the workforce tutorial award for the eighth consecutive 12 months. UCLA has certified for the award yearly beneath seventh-year head coach Ryan Jorden. A complete of 14 UCLA males’s soccer gamers had been named to the Academic All-Big Ten workforce.

The Bruin ladies have now earned the award in 14 consecutive seasons after posting a collective 3.26 GPA in 2024-25. It was additionally the sixth 12 months in a row that the ladies have recorded a workforce GPA of three.25 or increased. Additionally, 15 gamers had been named to the Academic All-Big Ten workforce within the fall, and Lilly Reale and Sofia Cook earned Scholar All-America honors. 

The United Soccer Coaches awards are designed to yearly have fun the tutorial achievements of groups whose student-athletes collectively reveal a dedication to excellence of their research over the course of a full tutorial 12 months. To qualify for the award, groups should put up a workforce grade level common of three.00 or increased.

Both groups will start motion subsequent week with a pair of house exhibition contests. The Bruin males will host CSU Bakersfield on Friday, Aug. 8 at 7:30 p.m., whereas the ladies host LMU on Saturday, Aug. 9 at 6:00 p.m. Both matches are free to the general public and can happen at Wallis Annenberg Stadium. 

The 2025 season formally begins for the ladies on Thursday, Aug. 14 at Georgia. The males’s season opener takes place on Thursday, Aug. 21 at UC Irvine.