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Monday, March 19, 2018

The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top male and female college soccer players.

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In 1967, Bob Hermann, the president of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the NPSL's successor, the North American Soccer League, established a trophy to annually recognize the top men's collegiate soccer player. The trophy, named the Hermann Trophy, has been awarded each year since 1967. In 1988, a second Hermann Trophy was inaugurated to recognize the top women's collegiate player of the year.

In 1986, the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) began naming an annual player of the year as a rival to the Hermann Trophy. Then in 1996, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) initiated its own annual player of the year award. These three competing awards began merging three years later when the NSCAA and MAC agreed to cooperate on naming a combined collegiate player of the year. Finally, beginning in 2002, the MAC/NSCAA and Hermann Trophy organization merged to create a unified trophy for the top college soccer player of the year.

The original Hermann Award Trophy is on display in the Hermann Atrium located in the McDonnell Athletic Center at MICDS in Ladue, Missouri. The original trophy was donated to the school by Hermann in 2003.

The current MAC Hermann Trophy is on display in the lobbies of the Missouri Athletic Club's Downtown and West County Clubhouses.

Selection process


Crystal Dunn Captures Hermann Trophy - UNC Tar Heels Athletics
Crystal Dunn Captures Hermann Trophy - UNC Tar Heels Athletics. Source : goheels.com

Today, the process of selecting a winner begins at the start of the college soccer season when a list of potential nominees is compiled by a nominating committee. Near the end of the collegiate regular season, 15 players whom the committee considers the best in Division I soccer are announced as semifinalists for the award. That list is then voted on through an online voting process by men's and women's Division I soccer coaches whose teams are current NSCAA College Services members. In early December the top three vote-getters for both the men's and women's trophy are announced as finalists for the award. These six individuals are invited to an annual banquet held at the Missouri Athletic Club of St. Louis. That evening, the winners of the two awards are announced and receive a 10-pound crystal replica soccer ball made by Tyrone Crystal of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Hermann Trophy (men's)


Top 10 Fighting Irish of All Time | SI.com
Top 10 Fighting Irish of All Time | SI.com. Source : www.si.com

     Unified with Hermann Trophy Award
     Unified with MAC Award
     Not awarded

Hermann Trophy (women's)


Dunn, Ohai Named To Hermann Trophy List - UNC Tar Heels Athletics
Dunn, Ohai Named To Hermann Trophy List - UNC Tar Heels Athletics. Source : goheels.com

     Unified with Hermann Trophy Award
     Unified with MAC Award
     Not awarded

See also


Jesuit alumnus Patrick Mullins lifts second Hermann Trophy - NOLA.com
Jesuit alumnus Patrick Mullins lifts second Hermann Trophy - NOLA.com. Source : highschoolsports.nola.com

  • Soccer America Player of the Year Award
  • ISAA Player of the Year (discontinued)

References



External links



  • MAC Hermann Trophy (official website)
  • MAC Hermann Trophy (MAC website)


 
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