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The Hermann Trophy
MALORIE RUTLEDGE
• 3-time All-American • 2-time SEC Offensive Player of the Year • 3-time First-Team All-SEC Selection • 3-time NSCAA/adidas All-Region Selection • U-23 U.S. Women’s National Team Player Pool • 2010 WPS Draft (13th Overall Pick by Philadelphia Independence)
Each year, the Heisman Trophy Trust presents the famed Heisman Trophy to the most outstanding college football player in the country. In the sport of college soccer, athletes from across the country compete each season for the right to raise the Hermann Trophy as the premier soccer player in the NCAA as presented by the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis.
Considered the highest honor in intercollegiate soccer, the recipient of the Hermann Trophy is selected each year by Division I head coaches who are certified members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. After releasing the Hermann Trophy Watch List each preseason, the field is then cut to 15 semifinalists in November before three finalists are named prior to the NCAA Women’s College Cup in early December.
The LSU Soccer program has been represented on the Hermann Trophy Watch List twice in its history as former Tiger All-American Malorie Rutledge was recognized as one of the top players in the country by the Missouri Athletic Club. While Rutledge never made the cut as one of the award’s 15 semifinalists, she certainly earned a reputation as being one of the elite talents in all of college soccer with a brilliant four-year career from 2006-09.
