The NSCAA is dedicated to educating coaches, but are also committed to honoring student-athletes on and off-the-field. The All-America Luncheon placed the game’s finest student-athletes on display Saturday, Jan. 14 at the 2012 NSCAA Convention.

Sunil Gulati, President of US Soccer, was named 2011 Honorary All-America. He is currently serving his second term at President. The award is given to the person who has brought particular distinction to soccer through their efforts within and beyond the boundaries of the sport.  Former MLS MVP Taylor Twellman was on sitet to present the awards to the All-Americas. Twellman was a two-time NSCAA All-America at the University of Maryland and the runner-up for both the Hermann Trophy and Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year in 1999. He has played in the MLS and for the U.S. Men’s National Team before suffering a neck injury and serious concussion. Twellman strongly supports the efforts to determine whether or not multiple concussions cause permanent harm to the brain.

Scholar All-America

High School Boys and Girls
Senior Cody Niedemeier of Broadneck High School, Annapolis, Md., was awarded the 2011 Boys’ High School Athlete of the Year. He made a total of 201 saves and had a .901 save percentage as a keeper. Niedemeier helped his DC United Academy team win the 2010 MLS SUM Cup Championship on a penalty kick shootout. He has been in the U-14 and U-15 U.S. National Player Pool. He carries a 4.2 weighted grade point average and is ranked 44th out of 541 and has earned academic honors in every marking period since middle school. He graduated a semester early to attend the University of Maryland.

Haleigh Hoff was awarded the 2011 Girls' High School Athlete of the Year. Hoff is a senior forward from Winfield High School in Winfield, West Virginia. She is a four-year starter and captain of her team for three years. Hoff helped lead the team to back-to-back state tournament appearances in 2010 and 2011. A four-year all-state selection, she was named the 2010 West Virginia High School Soccer Coaches Association Forward of the Year, then was chosen as Player of the Year in 2011. She also has earned NSCAA High School All-America honors. Hoff has maintained a 4.0 grade point average and has been an active member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta and has served four years on student council. She has volunteered, coached and trained for the West Virginia Chaos Soccer Club. Hoff has enrolled at the University of Kentucky for the spring 2012 semester.

College Men and Women
Ethan Finlay of Creighton University, Marshfield, Wis., is the 2011 Men’s College Scholar All-America Athlete of the Year. Finlay was a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy this year. The senior forward helped lead the Bluejays to the NCAA semifinals while maintaining a 3.40 grade point average in finance. Finlay was named the 2010 and 2011 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year as he led the league with 14 goals and 34 points in 2011.

2011 MAC Hermann Trophy winner, Teresa Noyola, is a three time NSCAA/Continental Tire All-America and this year’s Women’s College Scholar All-America Athlete of the Year. Noyola completed her collegiate career as a member of the 2011 NCAA Championship Stanford Cardinal team. She helped lead Stanford to a 95-4-4 record during her four years including a 53-0-1 mark at home. She has maintained a 3.52 cumulative grade point average in math and computational science.  Noyola is the third female to unite the MAC Hermann Trophy and Scholar Athlete of the Year Award, joining Portland’s Christine Sinclair in 2005 and Kelley O’Hara of Stanford in 2009.

All-America

Youth Boys and Girls
Morgan Andrews from Milford, NH was named the 2011 Girls' NSCAA Youth Player of the Year and Marc Pelosi from Sunnyvale, Calif. Was named the 2011 Boys' NSCAA Youth Player of the Year.

High School Boys and Girls
Visit High School Boys and Girls  for the complete list of players from their respective states.

Junior College Men and Women
Junior College Division I Players of the year are Diego Ramos, Darton College, and Lauren Emmerson, Tyler Junior College. Junior Division III Players of the Year are Alfredo Ontiveros, Mount San Antonio College, and Cara Curtin, Santa Rosa Junior College.

Senior College Men and Women
The 2011 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy winners are Andrew Wenger, Duke University, and Teresa Noyola, Stanford University.. NCAA Division II Players of the Year are Fabian Kling, Fort Lewis College, and Carmelina Puopolo, College of Saint Rose. The NCAA Division III Players of the Year are Travis Wall, Ohio Weslyan University, and Jaime Orewiler, Wheation College (Ill.). NAIA Players of the Year are Derek Prinz, Hastings College, and Jamie Achten, Lee Univeristy.

Inspireum Soccer Awards

The Inspireum Soccer Awards celebrate outstanding young athletes, not because of their statistical performance, but because of their ability both on and off the soccer field to inspire teammates, classmates, families and communities.  This year we will discover, amplify, and celebrate hundreds of soccer players nationwide who display great character, courage, contribution and commitment.  Players are nominated by coaches, parents, teammates, and friends for this prestigious award.

The 2011 Winners for the Inspireum Soccer Award is Christian Metzler, Woodbridge, VA. Metzler capped off his high school career as he scored the game-winning penalty kick. This goal had multiple meanings for the senior keeper. The main reason was that he was born with only one leg. The top ranked keeper used his prosthetic leg to score the point. Metzler has lead Pope John Paul the Great Catholic High School soccer team to a winning season as the 13th ranked team in Virginia. He earend a spot on the Second All-State Team. Off-the-field he volunteers countless hours at the Walter Reed and Bethesda Medical Centers mentoring children and as a companion for wounded warriors with prosthetics.

Jerry Yeagley Award

The Jerry Yeagley Award for Exceptional Personal Service is presented annually to a college men’s or women’s soccer player (past or present) who has demonstrated exceptional personal achievement and extraordinary accomplishment that transcend normal expectation, and who is or was an example and inspiration to his/her teammates and university.

This year Mary McVeigh was awarded the Jerry Yeagley Award. She is the Assistant Coach at Dartmouth University. McVeigh is a 2002 All-America winner and a two-time first team All-Ivy honoree at Dartmouth. She ranks in the top-10 in all six career and season scoring categories. She graduated from Dartmouth in 2003 and earned her master’s degree from Lehigh in 2007. She was the seventh overall pick in the 2003 Women’s United Soccer Association with the Philadelhpia Charge. McVeigh is one of the founders of Soccer Without Borders in Nicaragua, which brings eduation and sport opportunities to underprivileged youth, particularly girls.

Visit 2011 Awards Central for a complete list of all the 2011 NSCAA award winners. 

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