2016 NSCAA DIVISION III SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA
2016 NSCAA DIVISION III SCHOLAR ALL-NORTH/CENTRAL REGION
MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College women's soccer players
Emily Gregg (SR, River Falls, Wis.) and
Marta Anderson (SR, Mankato, Minn./Mankato East HS) earned scholar-athlete honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, it was announced on Friday.
A biology major with a 3.72 grade-point average, Gregg was named to the NSCAA Division III Scholar All-America team as a first-team defender, while Anderson, a marketing major with a 3.71 GPA, was named a Scholar All-America third-team midfielder. Both were named to the NSCAA Division III Scholar All-North/Central Region team as first-team honorees.
Gregg and Anderson are the third and fourth Auggies to earn NSCAA Scholar All-America honors in women's soccer program history, and they bring to 12 the number of Auggie women's soccer players to ever earn NSCAA Scholar All-Region honors.
The honors are the latest in a tremendous senior campaign for both Gregg and Anderson. Both earned
All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and
NSCAA Division III All-North Region first-team honors, and Gregg was also named as an
NSCAA Division III All-America second-team honoree.
Gregg developed a reputation as one of the best defensive sweepers in the MIAC – the last line of defense between the opponent's offense and the goalkeeper. She was part of a defense that helped produce 15 team shutouts, while allowing just 10 goals and a 0.44 team goals against-average – all three totals second-best
among MIAC teams in overall statistics this season. Augsburg's team GAA is 18th-best
among NCAA Division III teams nationally, and its 14 shutouts are tied for 13th-most in Division III.
Gregg's 1,884 minutes played (85.6 minutes per-game) led the team, and she finished with two goals and one assist for five points, including a game-winning goal, this season. In her 81 career games (79 starts), she finished her career with three goals and seven assists for 13 points, and was a part of 45 team shutouts and a 0.70 team goals-against-average.
Anderson recorded six goals and seven assists for 19 points in her senior season, including the lone goal in
Augsburg's 1-0, MIAC playoff championship game victory at St. Thomas on Nov. 5, one of her two game-winning goals on the season. Her seven assists were tied for third-most
among MIAC players in overall statistics, while her six goals were 13th-most and her 19 points were 14th-most.
She played in 1,832 minutes this season (79.7 minutes per-game), second-most on the team. In her 82 career games (81 starts), she finished her career with 17 goals and 29 assists for 63 points – second in school history in career assists, eighth in points and tied for 11th in goals.
Both team co-captains this season, Gregg and Anderson were leaders for an Augsburg squad that went 18-5-0 overall and 8-3-0 in MIAC play, winning the MIAC's postseason playoff championship and advancing to the NCAA Division III national tournament, both accomplishments for the second time in a three-year span. Under 18th-year head coach
Mike Navarre, the Auggies reached the second round of the NCAA tournament, and the team's 18 victories were the most in a single season in school history.
(NOTE: Story includes information taken from previous Augsburg women's soccer award releases.)
