Ferris State Soccer Honored As Team Ethics & Sportsmanship Award Recipient

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Big Rapids, Mich. - For the second consecutive year, the Ferris State University women's soccer program has received distinguished praise for the way in which the Bulldogs competed under head coach Andy McCaslin.

The Bulldogs were recently one of only three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) programs to be named to the 2016 National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA) Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award recipients list. FSU earned a "Silver" designation for the second year in a row after being the only league member honored in the award process last season.

A total of 164 college teams and fall-competing high school teams were awarded either the Gold, Silver, or Bronze version of their respective NSCAA Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award.

The award recognizes teams that exhibit fair play, sporting behavior and adherence to the laws of the game, as reflected by the number of yellow caution cards or red ejection cards they are shown by referees throughout the season. It is based on the number of cards accumulated divided by the number of games played (i.e., 5 cards divided by 20 games played is 0.25 or 25%, which qualifies for a Silver Award).

In college women's soccer, a total of only nine teams were recipients of the Platinum Award, which is given to teams who had no yellow or red cards throughout the year. Fifteen teams earned the Gold Award with a percentage of cards ranging from 1-10%.

A total of 57 teams claimed the Silver Award, which is given to teams that accumulate a percentage of cards ranging from 11-30%, while the Bronze Award went to 19 teams, which is presented to teams that accumulate a percentage of cards ranging from 31-50%.

The Bulldogs concluded the 2016 campaign with a 6-8-4 overall record and went 4-3-4 in conference regular-season action to finish tied for fifth in the league. In FSU's last 12 outings this past year, the Bulldogs gave up only a single goal or less nine times and 10 of the decisions in that stretch either resulted in a victory or were determined by only one goal.

Ferris State also made its seventh consecutive GLIAC Tournament appearance and ninth overall in program history during the fall 2016 season. The Bulldogs had only a pair of seniors and three standouts who are all eligible to return next year earned All-GLIAC accolades.