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| Dan Gravlin |
The University of Missouri-Rolla is one of 52 institutions in the nation -- and one of just two in the 14-team Great Lakes Valley Conference -- to have both its men's and women's soccer programs earn the Team Academic Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
UMR's men's team, which also had an individual honored, recorded a team grade point average of 3.26 during the 2005-06 academic year. The women's team came in with a 3.18 team grade point average. Teams must have a 3.0 grade point average to earn the academic award from the NSCAA.
The individual from the men's team that was named was junior forward Dan Gravlin, who last month was selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America soccer team for the 2006 season.
Gravlin, a civil engineering major at UMR, finished the year with one goal and a team-high four assists in the Miners' 9-9-2 campaign. Gravlin had a four-point game during the season with a goal and two assists in a key GLVC win over Missouri-St. Louis in early October.
In the GLVC, Rockhurst also had both of its teams make the NSCAA honor roll list. Two other men's teams, Indianapolis and Wisconsin-Parkside, along with the women's teams from Bellarmine and Northern Kentucky, were recipients of the academic honors as well as the squads from UMR and Rockhurst.
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