NSCAA Recognizes Wasp Soccer

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Wasatch Soccer Named For Academic All-American and All-Region Excellence

BY KENNY BRISTOW

Wave Sports Writer

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America, the world’s largest soccer coach’s organization, representing clubs at all levels from youth to university, recently released their 2011-12 award winners.  Wasatch High School was recognized in two categories as a team and one for an individual player.

The Wasp boys and girls teams, both coached by Dawain Wheatley, were recognized for High School Team Academic excellence.  To qualify for this award, the team must have a minimum grade point average of 3.25 for the entire academic year.  The team GPA is determined by adding every player’s GPA, then dividing by the number of players on the team.

The girls carried a 3.75 team GPA and the boys qualified with a team GPA of 3.34.  Wasatch was one of only 51 schools across the country to earn the awards for both boys and girls in the 2011/2012 school year.  This is an amazing accomplishment considering a total of 366 high school teams (141 boys, 225 girls) throughout the U.S. have earned the NSCAA Team Academic Award for the 2011-12 academic year.

Congratulations to Coach Wheatley and his staffs and to their players who work so hard not only on the field, but in the classroom to receive this type of national recognition.

In the same release of academic year-end awards, Cooper Hall, a graduate of the Wasatch High School class of 2012, and an outstanding goalkeeper on the boy’s team, earned a selection to the NSCAA Boy’s All-Region VII team for his amazing play in the net for the Wasps.  Hall led the state in shutouts his senior year with 13 and was runner-up his junior season with 12. 

Goalkeeper Cooper Hall recorded 25 shutouts in two years as a starter for Wasatch earning him national recognition from the NSCAA for 2011-12.