KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy will be awarded to the top male and female collegiate soccer players in the nation on Friday, Jan. 9. The crystal soccer ball trophy represents the highest individual achievement in the sport.
The finalists for the women’s MAC Hermann Trophy are Stanford University senior forward Jasmine Aikey (Palo Alto, Calif.), Florida State junior forward Jordynn Dudley (Milton, Ga.) and University of Notre Dame sophomore forward Izzy Engle (Edina, Minn). The finalists for the men’s award are University of Washington senior forward Richie Aman (Hanover, N.H.), Grand Canyon University freshman forward Junior Diouf (Thies, Senegal) and NC State University junior forward Donavan Phillip (Castries, Saint Lucia).
Many of the biggest names in American soccer, including Mia Hamm, Crystal Dunn, Claudio Reyna, and Alexi Lalas, have won the award.
The awards banquet will begin in the second floor ballroom of the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis, Mo., at 5:15 pm PT and the winners will be announced at the conclusion of the banquet at approximately 6:30 p.m. PT on the second floor of the Missouri Athletic Club’s Downtown Clubhouse. A live stream of the banquet will be available at machermanntrophy.org beginning at 5:00 p.m. PT.
Three former MAC Hermann Trophy winners, Brad Friedel, John Harkes and Alexi Lalas, will be the banquet’s featured speakers to share their experiences playing for the U.S. in the World Cup.
The MAC Hermann Trophy, a 10-pound crystal soccer ball awarded annually since 1967, honors the United Soccer Coaches National Players of the Year in NCAA Division I men’s and women’s soccer based on voting conducted by member coaches.
Previous winners of this prestigious award, including Stanford's Kelley O'Hara, Christen Press, Teresa Noyola, Andi Sullivan and Catarina Macario, can be found here.