For the third straight year, the Wayne State College women's soccer team received the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award for the 2016-17 academic year.
To qualify for the award, a team must have a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the entire academic year. Wayne State College finished the 2016-17 academic year with a 3.5 grade point average and had 15 of its 24 players register an individual grade point average of 3.5 or better.
Wayne State was one of seven schools from the NSIC to receive the academic honor and had the second-highest team GPA, trailing only Bemidji State (3.57).
