2019 CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA D-III SOCCER TEAMS

MINNEAPOLIS -- For the second straight year, Augsburg University's Ashley St. Aubin (SR, Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville HS) was named to the Academic All-America Division III Women's Soccer Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), as a second-team honoree, it was announced on Tuesday.

A mathematics major with a 3.82 grade-point average, St. Aubin is the 12th Augsburg student-athlete to earn multiple Academic All-America honors from CoSIDA. Across all sports, Augsburg student-athletes have now been honored 44 times with CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 1981, including 34 honors since 2000. Among the 13 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schools, Augsburg has had the fourth-most CoSIDA Academic All-Americans all-time.

St. Aubin was one of 10 players to repeat as selections on the 33-member CoSIDA Academic All-America Division III Women's Soccer Team, divided into a 12-member first team, 10-member second team and 11-member third team. She was the lone MIAC women's soccer player to earn 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. St. Aubin earned CoSIDA Academic All-America second-team honors last season, CoSIDA Academic All-District honors each of the last three seasons, and United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America second-team and Scholar All-North/Central Region first-team honors last year. She's also a two-time Academic All-MIAC honoree.

St. Aubin made conference history in her final collegiate campaign, breaking the conference's 25-year-old record for career goals and tying a 32-year-old conference record for career points. She finished her career with school records for both goals (71) and points (173), adding 31 assists (second in Augsburg history). The old MIAC record of 69 goals was set in 1994 by Macalester's Jenny Scanlon (1991-94), and the old league points record of 173 (62 goals, 49 assists) was set in 1987 by Heidi Campbell of Saint Mary's (1984-87).

She became one of just 17 players in conference women's soccer history to earn All-MIAC honors all four years of their careers, when she was named to the All-MIAC squad last month. St. Aubin was named the MIAC's Offensive Player of the Year in 2017 and the league's Rookie of the Year in 2016. On Monday, she became the first Augsburg women's soccer player ever to earn United Soccer Coaches (formerly National Soccer Coaches Association of America) All-Region honors all four years of her career, when she was named a first-team forward for the third straight year, after earning second-team honors in 2016.

The first player in Augsburg women's soccer history to earn All-America honors in back-to-back seasons, St. Aubin was named a Division III All-American by the United Soccer Coaches (third team) and D3soccer.com (second team) in 2018, and by the United Soccer Coaches (second team) in 2017.

For the fourth straight season, St. Aubin led the MIAC's overall statistics in both goals (18) and total points (42), her fourth straight season with 36 or more points. Her nine assists were tied for second-most among league players. She recorded a goal or assist in 18 of Augsburg's 21 games this season. St. Aubin scored at least one goal in 55 games in her 83-game career, and the Auggies were 48-6-1 when she scored a goal.

Under 21st-year head coach Mike Navarre, the Auggies returned to the NCAA Division III national tournament for the third time in a six-year span, after winning a share of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular-season title and reaching the conference playoff title game for the fifth time in the last eight seasons. Augsburg finished the 2019 season with a 15-4-2 overall record and 9-1-1 mark in MIAC play, marking the eighth straight year of double-digit victories and the sixth straight year earning eight or more conference wins. St. Aubin led a senior class that combined for a 59-20-4 (.735) overall and 33-8-3 (.784) MIAC record in its four seasons, with two MIAC regular-season championships (2017, 2019), an MIAC playoff title (2016), three MIAC playoff title game appearances (2016, 2018, 2019) and two NCAA Division III national tournament appearances (2016, 2019).

The Academic All-America program is administered by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Top student-athletes, who have already earned Academic All-District first-team honors, are eligible for inclusion on the Academic All-America team. Student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their current institutions, have a grade-point average above 3.30 (4.0 scale) and have outstanding athletic credentials. The Academic All-America ballot is voted on by a committee of CoSIDA members, along with sports information directors in the various divisions. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in NCAA Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports. 

The Division III Academic All-America program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the Division III Academic All-America teams program. This is the ninth year of the expanded Academic All-America program, with separate teams comprising NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, along with a College Division team of NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools. 

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Augsburg College's All-Time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans:
Ashley St. Aubin, women's soccer, 2019 (second team)
Booker Coplin, men's basketball, 2019 (second team)
Christopher Lemke, football, 2018 (first team)
Ashley St. Aubin, women's soccer, 2018 (second team)
Nate Flynn, men's ice hockey (men's at-large), 2018 (first team)
Victor Gliva, wrestling (men's at-large), 2018 (first team)
Sam Bennyhoff, wrestling (men's at-large), 2018 (second team)
Christopher Lemke, football, 2017 (first team)
Nate Flynn, men's ice hockey (men's at-large), 2017 (second team)
Mary Cornelius, women's track and field/cross country, 2016 (third team)
Erika Allen, women's ice hockey (women's at-large), 2016 (second team)
Zach Swingen, football, 2015 (first team)
Chris DeVet, football, 2014 (first team)
Zach Swingen, football, 2014 (second team)
Lauren Rice, women's track and field/cross country, 2014 (first team)
Elianna Bier, women's swimming and diving (women's at-large), 2014 (second team)
Chad Thompson, football, 2013 (second team)
Chris DeVet, football, 2013 (second team)
Bri Dorale, softball, 2013 (first team)
Chad Thompson, football, 2012 (first team)
Tony Valek, wrestling (men's at-large), 2012 (first team)
Tony Valek, wrestling (men's at-large), 2011 (first team)
Alex Hildebrandt, men's soccer, 2009 (second team)
Alex Hildebrandt, men's soccer, 2008 (third team)
Nick Manders, men's soccer, 2007 (second team)
Andrew Neumann, football, 2006 (second team)
Ryan Valek, wrestling (men's at-large), 2006 (first team)
Riley Conway, men's track and field/cross country, 2005 (second team)
Mark Matzek, wrestling (men's at-large), 2005 (first team)
Ryan Valek, wrestling (men's at-large), 2005 (third team)
Darren Ginther, baseball, 2005 (first team)
Brent Peroutka, football, 2001 (second team)
Josh Cagle, wrestling (men's at-large), 2000 (first team)
Brian Jones, wrestling (men's at-large), 2000 (second team)
Josh Cagle, wrestling (men's at-large), 1999 (second team)
Jim Peterson, wrestling (men's at-large), 1999 (second team)
Scott Hvistendahl, football, 1998 (second team)
Ted Schultz, football, 1997 (first team)
Scott Hvistendahl, football, 1997 (second team)
Dan Lewandowski, wrestling (men's at-large), 1997 (second team)
Andrea Haight, softball, 1991 (second team)
Karen Sterner, track and field (women's at-large), 1987 (second team)
Karen Sterner, track and field (women's at-large), 1986 (first team)
Paul Elliot, football, 1981 (only one team selected)

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(NOTE: Story includes information taken from Augsburg's 2019 All-Region women's soccer release and previous Academic All-America releases.)