2009 NSCAA ALL-NORTH REGION TEAM

MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College men's soccer defender Alex Hildebrandt (SR, St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park HS) was named to the 2009 National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division III All-North Region squad, earning first-team honors for the second straight year, it was announced on Friday.

The all-region honor is the latest in a career filled with major accomplishments for Hildebrandt. So far this season, he earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors for the second straight year, and earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second-team and Academic All-District first-team honors for his accomplishments in the classroom as an accounting/finance major with a 3.83 grade-point average.

In 2008, Hildebrandt earned nearly every honor a collegiate soccer player can receive, earning NSCAA/Adidas Division III All-America second-team and NSCAA/Adidas All-Far West Region first-team honors. In the classroom, he was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America and Academic All-District squads, in addition to earning NSCAA/Adidas Scholar All-Region, Scholar All-America and Academic All-MIAC honors. He was also an All-MIAC honorable-mention honoree in 2006, and earned All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team honors in both 2008 and 2009.

This season, Hildebrandt finished with four goals for eight points in 1,464 minutes played (93.0 percent of Augsburg's 1,573 team minutes this season), including two game-winning goals. In his career at Augsburg (71 games), Hildebrandt finished with 14 goals and nine assists for 37 points, including five game-winning goals.

Augsburg finished 8-8-1 overall, 3-7-0 in MIAC play this season, the sixth under head coach Greg Holker. In Hildebrandt's career, the Auggies went 43-23-11 (.630 winning percentage), reaching the MIAC postseason playoffs twice and qualifying for the NCAA Division III national tournament for the first time in school history last season, reaching the "Sweet Sixteen" round.