Awards
INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM ACADEMIC AWARDS
At the annual NSCAA Convention in January the National Soccer Coaches Association of America [NSCAA] and Adidas award High School Team Academic Awards.
The award is based on the academic performance of a team during the previous academic year (both semesters). To be eligible for the award a team must have a minimum grade point average of 3.25 for the year based on a 4.0 scale. Only athletes who appear on a varsity roster during the soccer season are eligible in calculating the grade point average. All soccer players on the roster must be included in the calculation.
For 2008 Maryland has 5 boys teams and 15 girls teams honored.
NSCAA/Adidas 2008 High School Boys Team Academic Award
| School | Coach |
| Catonsville High School Broadneck High School Loch Raven High School Middletown High School Walkersville High School | Victor Vega Sean Tettemer Joe Fiedler Bob Sheffler Kevin Conley |
NSCAA/Adidas 2008 High School Girls Team Academic Award
| School | Coach |
| Catonsville High School Churchill High School Dulaney High School Walter Johnson High School Kenwood High School Leonardtown High School Colonel Zadok Magruder High School Northeast Senior High School Parkside High School Quince Orchard High School St. Mary's Ryken High School South Carroll High School Stephen Decatur High School Tuscarora High School Urbana High School | James D. Fitzpatrick Haroot Hakopian Sharyn Kuczka Thomas E. Wheeler Derek Woodward Jennifer Henderson Trevin London Charles Parks Terry Webster Peg Keiller Will Morris Jerry Janowich Misty Bunting Mark Wolcott Charles Nichols |
Each year the NSCAA also names individual students to a Scholar All-America Team requiring them to have a minimum 3.75 GPA while participating in a varsity soccer program. The awardees from Maryland are listed below.
NSCAA/Adidas 2008 High School Scholar All-America Team
| Melissa Orgera Cheyenne Braga Jessica Cooke Jackie Blake Hedges | Broadneck High School Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Leonardtown High School St. Mary’s Ryken High School |
HONORS
| 2008 NSCAA/Adidas High School All-America Team | |
| Girls | |
| Gianna Mangione | McDonogh School |
| Caroline Miller | Walter Johnson High School |
| Boys | |
| Oumar Ballo | Archbishop Curley High School |
| Joe Vidmar | McDonogh School |
| 2008 NSCAA/Adidas High School All-South Team | |
| Boys | |
| Oumar Ballo | Archbishop Curley High School |
| Taylor Brummitt | Annapolis High School |
| Kevin Dansky | Churchill High School |
| Marquez Fernandez | McDonogh School |
| Julian Griggs | McDonogh School |
| Zach Kane | Perry Hall High School |
| Phil Martinelli | Marriotts Ridge High School |
| Matilla Melillo | Walkersville High School |
| Jimmy Nugent | Parkville High School |
| Jake Pace | River Hill High School |
| Paul Torres | Walt Whitman High School |
| Joe Vidmar | McDonogh School |
| Girls | |
| Cheyenne Braga | Our Lady of Good Counsel High School |
| Ali Brennan | McDonogh School |
| Brianna Hovington | Eleanor Roosevelt High School |
| Gianna Mangione | McDonogh School |
| Caroline Miller | Walter Johnson High School |
| Franciska Okoko | Arundel High School |
| Erica Paige | Archbishop Spalding |
| Ashley Spivey | McDonogh School |
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| NSCAA/Adidas 2008 High School South Region Coach of the Year | |
| Richard Kirkland | Bowie High School |