{"id":99402,"date":"2025-08-26T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99402\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:01:16","slug":"mens-soccer-earns-fourth-straight-united-soccer-coaches-team-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99402\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Soccer Earns Fourth-Straight 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\">2024-25 United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Awards<\/a> &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 For the fourth consecutive year, the Belmont University men&#8217;s soccer program has been recognized by United Soccer Coaches for its outstanding work in the classroom. The Bruins have earned the coaches association&#8217;s Team Academic Award for the 2024-25 academic year, as announced earlier in August.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt marks the 12th time in program history Belmont has collected the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins posted a 3.575 team grade point average in 2024-25, including achieving an impressive 3.73 team GPA during the spring semester.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior midfielders <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/aj-chastonay\/4136\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4136\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Chastonay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/brad-dildy\/4550\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4550\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Dildy<\/a>, along with junior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/aj-elliott\/4551\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4551\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Elliott<\/a>, were named to the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Teams and a record six Belmont student-athletes were tabbed Academic All-District\u00ae by College Sports Communicators (CSC). Joining Chastonay and Dildy as 2024 Academic All-District\u00ae selections were senior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/alex-clayton\/4117\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4117\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Clayton<\/a>, junior midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/oscar-hough\/4552\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4552\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Hough<\/a>, senior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/alex-johnson\/4121\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4121\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Johnson<\/a> and redshirt junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/belmontbruins.com\/sports\/mens-soccer\/roster\/jimiyu-mark\/4555\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4555\" target=\"_blank\">Jimiyu Mark<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnnually, United Soccer Coaches awards collegiate soccer programs at all levels for their exemplary performance in the classroom. To garner United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award status, a program must maintain a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the academic year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins are off to a 2-0 start and return to match action this weekend at Ivy League staple Harvard.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelmont has earned a result in five of its last six matches dating back to the end of last season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow to Follow<br \/>\nFollow Belmont men&#8217;s soccer on social media \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BelmontMSoccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BelmontMSoccer<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/belmontmsoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@belmontmsoccer<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BelmontMSoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belmont University Men&#8217;s Soccer on Facebook<\/a> \u2013 for complete coverage of the Bruins. Stay up to date with all of Belmont&#8217;s athletic programs via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/belmont-bruins\/id933521621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official app of the Belmont Bruins<\/a>, available both in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#ItsBruinTime<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 2024-25 United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Awards &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-99402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99402","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=99402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}