Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America honored a few Atlantic Sun Soccer teams with postseason awards. Campbell, the only A-Sun men's team honored, was awarded the Men's Soccer Team Academic Award.

The Women's Soccer Team Academic Award was given to Belmont, ETSU, Jacksonville and Mercer. ETSU's and Jacksonville's women's teams were also awarded the Team Ethics Award.

The Team Academic Award is given to schools with a team grade point average above 3.0.

The Team Ethics Award is divided into gold, silver and bronze categories.

ETSU was awarded the Silver Team Ethics Award, which is given to teams that receive no red cards and a maximum of five yellow cards. Jacksonville was awarded the Bronze Team Ethics Award, which goes to teams receiving no red cards and a maximum of 10 yellow cards.