Garnet Women Pick Up Third NSCAA Team Academic Award
For the third year in a row, the Swarthmore women's soccer team received the Team Academic Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).
The NSCAA awarded over 400 teams with honor for commitment to their studies during the 2006-2007 academic year. Teams must post a collective 3.00 or higher grade point average to earn the award. Swarthmore was one of four Centennial Conference teams recognized; Bryn Mawr, Franklin & Marshall and Haverford were also listed.
Three Garnet women were named to the 2007 Fall Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll: Monica Cody ’10 (Torrance, Calif. / Marymount), Cait Mullarkey ’09 (Wilmington, Del. / Ursuline Academy) and Caitlin O’Neil ’10 (Del Mar, Calif. / The Bishop’s School). To be named to the CC Academic Honor Roll, student-athletes must be a sophomore or higher in class standing and a starter or key reserve on her team. The student must maintain at least a 3.40 cumulative grade-point average.
Mullarkey was also selected to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II women's soccer team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Mullarkey was a third-team selection.
The Swarthmore defense set four Centennial records this season including the team recording 13 shutouts—the team finished third in all of Division III with a 0.301 goals-against average. Lauren Walker ’09 (Fallston, Md. / The Hotchkiss School) set the lowest goals against average of the season at the 0.27 mark, while recording the most shutouts in a season with 10. The team had a five players selected to the All-Conference team which is a school record. Mullarkey also marked a school record as the only Garnet student-athlete to be named first team three years in a row.
The Garnet made their second consecutive appearance in the Centennial Conference playoffs and capped the season with the program’s first-ever ECAC Southern Division III Championship. The team posted a 14-2-3 record overall and spent five weeks with a national ranking, the first-ever in program history, peaking at #18 in the NSCAA/adidas poll.
Click here to view the complete 2006-07 NSCAA Team Academic Award List