{"id":43429,"date":"2019-10-08T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=43429"},"modified":"2019-10-14T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:08:15","slug":"emu-womens-soccer-team-wins-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/emu-womens-soccer-team-wins-academic-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s soccer team wins academic award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/wsoc\/index\">EMU women&#8217;s soccer team<\/a> has earned the Team Academic Award from the United Soccer Coaches. The award recognizes the team GPA from the 2018-19 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the fourth time in the past five seasons that the team claimed the award from the coaches association, earning it in 2015, 2016, and 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a great achievement by our team from last year,&#8221; said sixth-year Head Coach Ted Erickson. &#8220;The commitment these ladies have made to improving this program, while maintaining success in the classroom, is outstanding and a center point of our program.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Soccer Coaches (formerly the National Soccer Coaches Association of America) started its team academic award in 1996. To qualify, a college team must hold a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. 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