KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NSCAA announced today (Oct. 6) the honorees for the 2015-16 NSCAA College Team Academic Award, which is presented to collegiate soccer programs that have a minimum grade-point average of 3.0 or higher for the entire academic year.

Nine Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference soccer programs – six women's and three men's – were among the 892 teams that achieved that standard during the 2015-16 academic year. Hope and Kalamazoo were among the 222 athletic departments nationally to have both their men's and women's soccer programs reach the echelon.

Listed below are the MIAA teams that earned the NSCAA College Team Academic Award. For the complete release from the NSCAA, click here.

Women

Albion College, Eric Scott, 3.40

Alma College, Ashley Bingaman, 3.33

Hope College, Leigh Sears, 3.56

Kalamazoo College, Bryan Goyings, 3.53

Olivet College, Kim McGowan, 3.62

Saint Mary's College, Jesse Urquhart, 3.45

Men

Calvin College, Ryan Souders, 3.21

Hope College, Steven Smith, 3.26

Kalamazoo College, Lumumba Shabazz, 3.38

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