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MAC Hermann Trophy

MISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB’S HERMANN TROPHY

United Soccer Coaches administers the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy, the highest individual award presented to a player in intercollegiate soccer. United Soccer Coaches Division I College Services members serve as the official voting body for the Hermann Trophy.

History

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 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, United Soccer Coaches (then NSCAA) initiated its own annual player of the year award. These three competing awards began merging three years later when United Soccer Coaches and MAC agreed to cooperate on naming a combined collegiate player of the year. Finally, beginning in 2002, United Soccer Coaches, the Missouri Athletic Club and the Hermann Trophy merged to create a unified award for the top college soccer player of the year. The original Hermann Award Trophy is on display in the Hermann Atrium located in the McDonnell Athletic Center at Mary Institute Country Day School in Ladue, Mo.

Selection Process

Today, the process of selecting a winner begins at the start of the college soccer season when a Watch List (men and women) of potential players is compiled by United Soccer Coaches All-America Committees. At the end of the collegiate regular season, 15 players from All-America voting by Division I coaches are announced as semifinalists for the award. That list is then voted on through an online voting process by men’s and women’s Division I soccer coaches whose teams are current United Soccer Coaches College Services members.

In early December, the top three vote-getters for both the men’s and women’s trophy are announced as finalists for the award. 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.

MAC Hermann Voting

Past Winners

Men

2022- Duncan McGuire (Creighton)
2021 – Dante Polvara (Georgetown)
2020 – Gloire Amanda (Oregon State)
2019 – Robbie Robinson (Clemson)
2018 – Andrew Gutman (Indiana)

2017 – Jon Bakero (Wake Forest)
2016 – Ian Harkes (Wake Forest)
2015 – Jordan Morris (Stanford)
2014 – Leo Stolz (UCLA)
2013 – Patrick Mullins (Maryland)
2012 – Patrick Mullins (Maryland)
2011 – Andrew Wenger (Duke)
2010 – Darlington Nagbe (Akron)
2009 – Teal Bunbury (Akron)
2008 – Marcus Tracy (Wake Forest)
2007 – O’Brian White (Connecticut)
2006 – Joseph Lapira (Notre Dame)
2005 – Jason Garey (Maryland)
2004 – Danny O’Rourke (Indiana)
2003 – Chris Wingert (St. John’s)
2002 – Alecko Eskandarian (Virginia)
2001 – Luchi Gonzalez (SMU)
2000 – Chris Gbandi (Connecticut)
1999 – Ali Curtis (Duke)
1998 – Wojtek Krakowiak (Clemson)
1997 – Johnny Torres (Creighton)
1996 – Mike Fisher (Virginia)
1995 – Mike Fisher (Virginia)
1994 – Brian Maisonneuve (Indiana)
1993 – Claudio Reyna (Virginia)
1992 – Brad Friedel (UCLA)
1991 – Alexi Lalas (Rutgers)
1990 – Ken Snow (Indiana)
1989 – Tony Meola (Virginia)
1988 – Ken Snow (Indiana)
1987 – Bruce Murray (Clemson)
1986 – John Kerr (Duke)
1985 – Tom Kain (Duke)
1984 – Amr Aly (Columbia)
1983 – Mike Jeffries (Duke)
1982 – Joe Ulrich (Duke)
1981 – Armando Betancourt (Indiana)
1980 – Joe Morrone (Connecticut)
1979 – Jim Stamatis (Penn State)
1978 – Angelo DiBernardo (Indiana)
1977 – Billy Gazonas (Hartwick)
1976 – Glenn Myernick (Hartwick)
1975 – Steve Ralbovsky (Brown)
1974 – Farrukh Quarishi (Oneonta State)
1973 – Dan Counce (Saint Louis)
1972 – Mike Seerey (Saint Louis)
1971 – Mike Seerey (Saint Louis)
1970 – Al Trost (Saint Louis)
1969 – Al Trost (Saint Louis)
1968 – Manuel Hernandez (San Jose State)
1967 – Dov Markus (Long Island)

Women

2022- Michelle Cooper (Duke)
2021 – Jaelin Howell (Florida State)

2020 – Jaelin Howell (Florida State)
2019 – Catarina Macario (Stanford)
2018 – Catarina Macario (Stanford)
2017 – Andi Sullivan (Stanford)
2016 – Kadeisha Buchanan (West Virginia)
2015 – Raquel Rodriguez (Penn State)
2014 – Morgan Brian (Virginia)
2013 – Morgan Brian (Virginia)
2012 – Crystal Dunn (North Carolina)
2011 – Teresa Noyola (Stanford)
2010 – Christen Press (Stanford)
2009 – Kelley O’Hara (Stanford)
2008 – Kerri Hanks (Notre Dame)
2007 – Mami Yamaguchi (Florida State)
2006 – Kerri Hanks (Notre Dame)
2005 – Christine Sinclair (Portland)
2004 – Christine Sinclair (Portland)
2003 – Cat Reddick (North Carolina)
2002 – Aly Wagner (Santa Clara)
2001 – Christie Welsh (Penn State)
2000 – Anne Makinen (Notre Dame)
1999 – Mandy Clemens (Santa Clara)
1998 – Cindy Parlow (North Carolina)
1997 – Cindy Parlow (North Carolina)
1996 – Cindy Daws (Notre Dame)
1995 – Shannon MacMillan (Portland)
1994 – Tisha Venturini (North Carolina)
1993 – Mia Hamm (North Carolina)
1992 – Mia Hamm (North Carolina)