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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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History
In 1967, Robert 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 Mr. Hermann in 2003.
Selection process
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)
- Unified with Hermann Trophy Award
- Unified with MAC Award
- Not awarded
Hermann Trophy (women's)
Year Hermann Trophy MAC Player of the Year
NSCAA Player of the Year
2010 Christen Press 2009 Kelley O'Hara 2008 Kerri Hanks 2007 Mami Yamaguchi 2006 Kerri Hanks 2005 Christine Sinclair 2004 Christine Sinclair 2003 Cat Reddick 2002 Aly Wagner 2001 Christie Welsh Christie Welsh 2000 Anne Makinen Anne Makinen 1999 Mandy Clemens Mandy Clemens 1998 Cindy Parlow Cindy Parlow Danielle Fotopoulos 1997 Cindy Parlow Cindy Parlow Sara Whalen 1996 Cindy Dawes Cindy Dawes Jennifer Renola 1995 Shannon MacMillan Shannon MacMillan 1994 Tisha Venturini Tisha Venturini 1993 Mia Hamm Mia Hamm 1992 Mia Hamm Mia Hamm 1991 Kristine Lilly Kristine Lilly 1990 April Kater April Kater 1989 Shannon Higgins Shannon Higgins 1988 Michelle Akers Michelle Akers - Unified with Hermann Trophy Award
- Unified with MAC Award
- Not awarded
See also
- Soccer America Player of the Year Award
- ISAA Player of the Year (discontinued)
External links
- Missouri Athletic Club-Hermann Trophy website
- Robert Hermann Hall of Fame Bio
- NSCAA: Past Champions
- MAC-Hermann Trophy: Past Winners
Categories:- Association football trophies and awards
- College soccer trophies and awards in the United States
- Awards established in 1967
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