Utah Soccer Succeeding in Classroom

7/23/2018 11:21 AM | Soccer

Nineteen student-athletes on Honor Roll and Dean's List

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Soccer excelled again in the classroom during the 2018 spring semester with 19 student-athletes named to the Honor Roll and Dean's List.

To earn a spot on the Dean's List, a Utah student-athlete must have a GPA over 3.50 for the semester. Graduates Janie Kearl, July Mathias and Natalie Vukic joined current Utes Ireland Dunn, SaraJean Edwards, Hayley Farrar, Max Flom, Aleea Gwerder, Jessica Hixson, Natalie Kump, Hailey Skolmoski, Liberty Taylor, Tatum Thornton, Cameron Tingey and Paola van der Veen.

All 15 of those players also qualified for the Honor Roll (3.0 GPA minimum) along with Holly Daugirda, Zona Kinnaman and graduates Madi Clarkson and Mikayla Elmer.

Back in April, Daugirda, Edwards, Farrar, Flom, Hixson, Kump, Mathias, Skolmoski, Tingey and Vukic all took part in the inaugural "All A's" dinner for earning a GPA of 3.70 or higher during the fall semester.

Some other notable accomplishments included Skolmoski earning CoSIDA Academic All-District honors and van der Veen earning a spot on the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-West Region team.

Sixteen Utes garnered Pac-12 All-Academic accolades with Flom and Mathias pacing the unit as first-team selections. Kearl, Skolmoski and Vukic were on the second team with Van der Veen, Daugirda, Dunn, Gwerder, Haylee Cacciacarne, Kristin Fairbairn, Eden Jacobsen, Tavia Leachman, Carly Nelson and Natalee Wells corralling honorable mention spots

As a team, the squad maintained a 3.36 GPA for the spring and has a cumulative mark of 3.53. Utah was honored with a Team Academic Award by the United Soccer Coaches in 2017 after it posted the best GPA in the Pac-12 and ranked 19th nationally among Division 1 programs (3.62).