RUSTON – For the 11th straight year the Louisiana Tech soccer team received the Team Academic Award, an award handed out annually by the United Soccer Coaches for exemplary performance in the classroom.
 
LA Tech, led by 12th-year head coach Kevin Sherry, was one of 484 women's collegiate soccer teams to earn the Team Academic Award for the 2017-18 academic year.  It is given to programs with a composite grade point average of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale for all players on the roster.
 
The Lady Techsters were one of seven Conference USA women's soccer programs to receive this honor after posting a 3.35 GPA.
 
United Soccer Coaches annual celebrates the academic achievements of high school and college soccer teams whose student-athletes collectively demonstrate a commitment to excellence in their studies over the course of a full school year. 
 
United Soccer Coaches was founded in 1941 and is the largest community for soccer coaches in the world.
 
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