{"id":44714,"date":"2025-08-04T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:05:13","slug":"soccer-teams-both-honored-with-united-soccer-coaches-team-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44714\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer teams both honored with United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedsoccercoaches.org\/2024-25-college-team-academic-award-winners-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United Soccer Coaches Release<\/a> &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 The St. Olaf College men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s soccer teams both received the United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award for the 2024-25 academic year, as announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Olaf was one of 161 institutions across the country that had both of its men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s programs earn the award, which is given to programs that achieve a team grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher for the year. Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/molly-fiedler\/1396\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1396\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Fiedler<\/a>&#8216;s women&#8217;s program posted a GPA of 3.79 during 2024-25 to rank in the top 10 nationally among NCAA Division III programs, while head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.stolaf.edu\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/justin-oliver\/1383\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1383\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Oliver<\/a>&#8216;s men&#8217;s program compiled a 3.47 team GPA.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked the 15th time in the last 17 seasons that the St. Olaf women&#8217;s program has collected the award and the 14th time in the last 15 seasons for the men&#8217;s program.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; United Soccer Coaches Release &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; KANSAS CITY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-44714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}