University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Ten Bruins Earn Pac-12 All-Academic Honors
November 29, 2017 | Women's Soccer
Ten members of the UCLA women's soccer team received Pac-12 All-Academic honors this season, including second-team honorees Sunny Dunphy and Julia Hernandez.
Dunphy and Hernandez are first-time honorees and the first Bruin pair to earn first or second team honors in one season since Elise Britt (1st team) and Dana Wall (2nd team) in 2010. Dunphy, a sophomore forward who has played in every game for the Bruins this year, has posted a 3.93 cumulative GPA. Hernandez, a junior forward who is tied for second on the team in goals scored with six, holds a 3.85 GPA in Applied Mathematics.
Earning honorable mention All-Academic awards are senior defender MacKenzie Cerda, sophomore midfielder Jessie Fleming, redshirt senior defender Zoey Goralski, senior defender Gabrielle Matulich, sophomore defender Kaiya McCullough, sophomore goalkeeper Teagan Micah, sophomore defender Jacey Pederson and redshirt senior midfielder Claire Winter. Goralski is a four-time honoree, while Matulich and Winter are three-time honorees. Cerda, Fleming, McCullough, Micah and Pederson receive their first academic honors.
To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and appear in at least 50 percent of their team's games.
UCLA has had seven or more student-athletes selected to the All-Academic team every year since 2012, and the 10 honorees are second-most in program history.
The Bruins have shined academically under head coach Amanda Cromwell. Her teams have earned United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Awards every year since she began in 2013-14 and for six consecutive years. The 2016-17 team received the UCLA Athletics Most Improved Team GPA award and was runner-up for the Highest Team GPA Award for large teams. This season, three Bruins earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors (Hernandez, Dunphy and McCullough).
