Jonathan Stout named MVC Males’s Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year

ST. LOUIS – Senior ahead Jonathan Stout has been named the Missouri Valley Conference males’s soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year in a vote by league sports activities data administrators.

Stout headlines a gaggle of 35 student-athletes named to the 2025 MVC males’s soccer scholar-athlete group as introduced by the convention workplace on Tuesday morning. Along with Stout, the Broncos have a league-high six gamers named to the Scholar-Athlete Team. Also, on the group for WMU are junior defender Braxton Arpachinda, junior ahead Henrik Boer, senior ahead Connor Burkett, redshirt sophomore defender Christian Shannon, and sophomore midfielder Braden Stevanovic.

Over the common season, Stout was a league chief in objectives with 5 scores by way of 17 matches. Stout ended the common season as seventh within the Valley in objectives and sixth in photographs with 36 in 17 matches. Stout was additionally certainly one of solely two gamers with the Brown and Gold to begin in each match through the season. He was additionally named to the All-MVC Second Team on the finish of the season. Stout at present holds a 4.00 GPA whereas pursuing a level in college research.

Arpachinda was named to the Scholar-Athlete group after being Western Michigan’s different play to begin in each match of the 2025 common season. Through 17 matches Arpachinda scored three objectives and assisted on three others for 9 factors on the season. He was additionally named to the All-MVC Second Team together with Stout. Arpachinda has a 3.71 GPA and is majoring in structure and design.

Boer performed in 12 matches for the Broncos through the common season whereas registering an help towards Adrian. Boer is majoring in sports activities administration and has a 3.90 GPA heading into the spring semester.

Burkett appeared in all however one match by way of the 2025 common season for WMU and began in 15 of these. While the senior solely registered a degree within the common season, he was a stalwart contributor for the Brown and Gold, getting balls into key locations for different teammates to attain on. Burkett has a 3.81 GPA in product design and can graduate this spring.

Shannon appeared in all 17 matches with Western Michigan within the common season and began in 16. Anchoring the again line, Shannon spent a whopping 1,400 minutes on the pitch whereas scoring one aim and helping on one other. He was additionally named to the All-MVC Second Team with Arpachinda and Stout together with making the MVC All-Tournament Team. Shannon has a 3.98 GPA in enterprise analytics heading into the second half of his sophomore 12 months.

Stevanovic was a key bench participant for the Broncos, showing in all 17 matches and beginning in 10 by way of the common season. He scored his first aim with WMU towards Adrian whereas helping on two different objectives that match. Stevanovic additionally recorded an help in matches towards Detroit Mercy and Bradley for a season whole of six factors. Stevanovic has a 4.00 GPA in finance going into the ultimate semester of his sophomore 12 months.