The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top male and female college soccer players. Indiana University's athletic teams are called the Hoosiers and their colors are cream and crimson though red and white have been used at times in the past The United States of America —commonly referred to as the College soccer is a term used to describe soccer that is played by Teams operated by Colleges and universities as opposed to a professional
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 National Professional Soccer League (NPSL was a former professional soccer league featuring teams from the United States and Canada. North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U 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. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America ( NSCAA) is an organization of American Soccer coaches founded in 1941 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. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered
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. Over the season, this list is updated and slowly reduced to 15 players whom the committee considers the best in Division I soccer. That list is sent to each men's and women's Division I soccer coaches who then vote for their respective award. However, the coaches can vote for any Division I player, not just those the nominating committee recommends. The top three vote getters for both the men's and women's trophy are announced in late November. 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. Tyrone Crystal is a hand made Crystal manufacturing company in Dungannon, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which has an international reputation of producing Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of
The original Herman Award Trophy is on display in the Hermann Atrium located in the McDonnell Athletic Center at MICDS in Ladue, Missouri. Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School or " MICDS " is a secular co-educational private school for about 1200 students in grades JK-12 which are separated The original trophy was donated to the school by Mr. Hermann in 2003.
Male Hermann Trophy Winners
Female Hermann Trophy Winners
- 2007 - Mami Yamaguchi
- 2006 - Kerri Hanks
- 2005 - Christine Sinclair
- 2004 - Christine Sinclair
- 2003 - Cat Reddick
- 2002 - Aly Wagner
- 2001 - Christie Welsh
- 2000 - Anne Makinen
- 1999 - Mandy Clemens
- 1998 - Cindy Parlow
- 1997 - Cindy Parlow
- 1996 - Cindy Daws
- 1995 - Shannon MacMillan
- 1994 - Tisha Venturini
- 1993 - Mia Hamm
- 1992 - Mia Hamm
- 1991 - Kristine Lilly
- 1990 - April Kater
- 1989 - Shannon Higgins
- 1988 - Michelle Akers
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