The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top male and female college soccer players. In 1967, Bob Hermann, the president of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the NPSL's successor, the North American Soccer League, established a trophy to annually recognize the top men's collegiate soccer player. The trophy, named the Hermann Trophy, has been awarded each year since 1967. In 1988, a second Hermann Trophy was inaugurated to recognize the top women's collegiate player of the year. In 1986, the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) began naming an annual player of the year as a rival to the Hermann Trophy. Then in 1996, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) initiated its own annual player of the year award. These three competing awards began merging three years later when the NSCAA and MAC agreed to cooperate on naming a combined collegiate player of the year. Finally, beginning in 2002, the MAC/NSCAA and Hermann Trophy organization merged to create a unified trophy for the top college soccer player of the year. The original Hermann Award Trophy is on display in the Hermann Atrium located in the McDonnell Athletic Center at MICDS in Ladue, Missouri. The original trophy was donated to the school by Hermann in 2003.
Key
* First overall draft pick in the MLS SuperDraft or NASL drafts † Inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame ‡ First overall draft pick and inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
List of Hermann Trophy winners
+ Men's Hermann Winners Year Name School Position Class 1967 Dov Markus Long Island 1968 Manuel Hernandez San Jose State 1969 Al Trost† Saint Louis 1970 Al Trost (2)† Saint Louis 1971 Mike SeereySaint Louis 1972 Mike Seerey (2)Saint Louis 1973 Dan CounceSaint Louis 1974 Farrukh QuarishiOneonta 1975 Steve Ralbovsky*Brown 1976 Glenn Myernick‡Hartwick 1977 Billy GazonasHartwick 1978 Angelo DiBernardoIndiana 1979 Jim StamatisPenn State 1980 Joe Morrone*Connecticut 1981 Armando BetancourtIndiana 1982 Joe UlrichDuke 1983 Mike JeffriesDuke 1984 Amr AlyColumbia 1985 Tom KainDuke 1986 John KerrDuke 1987 Bruce Murray†Clemson 1988 Ken SnowIndiana 1989 Tony Meola†Virginia 1990 Ken SnowIndiana 1991 Alexi Lalas† Rutgers 1992 Brad Friedel† UCLA 1993 Claudio Reyna† Virginia 1994 Brian MaisonneuveIndiana 1995 Matt McKeon St. Louis 1996 Mike Fisher Virginia 1997 Johnny Torres Creighton 1998 Wojtek Krakowiak Clemson 1999 Ali CurtisDuke 2000 Chris Gbandi*UConn 2001 Luchi GonzalezSMU 2002 Alecko Eskandarian*Virginia 2003 Chris Wingert St. John's 2004 Danny O'RourkeIndiana 2005 Jason Garey Maryland 2006 Joseph Lapira Notre Dame 2007 O'Brian WhiteConnecticut 2008 Marcus TracyWake Forest 2009 Teal BunburyAkron 2010 Darlington NagbeAkron 2011 Andrew Wenger*Duke 2012 Patrick MullinsMaryland 2013 Patrick Mullins (2)Maryland 2014 Leo StolzUCLA 2015 Jordan MorrisStanford 2016 Ian HarkesWake Forest 2017 Jon BakeroWake Forest 2018 Andrew GutmanIndiana 2019 Robbie Robinson*Clemson 2020 Gloire Amanda Oregon State 2021 Dante Polvara Georgetown 2022 Duncan McGuire Creighton 2023 Ousmane Sylla Clemson 2024 Michael Adedokun Ohio State 2025 Donavan Phillip NC State
Trophies won by school This is a list of the colleges and universities who have had a men's college soccer player win a Hermann trophy. Twenty-three different schools have produced a Hermann Trophy recipient.
School Trophiesheld Indiana 7 Duke 6 Saint Louis 5 Virginia 5 Clemson 4 Connecticut 3 Maryland 3 Wake Forest 3 Akron 2 Hartwick 2 UCLA 2 Brown 1 Columbia 1 Creighton 2 LIU 1 Georgetown 1 Notre Dame 1 Oneonta 1 Oregon State 1 Penn State 1 Rutgers 1 San Jose State 1 SMU 1 St. John's 1 Stanford 1 NC State 1 Ohio State 1
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