Kerri Hanks Captures Second M.A.C. Hermann Trophy Award

 

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Notre Dame women’s soccer senior forward Kerri Hanks, the two-time BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year, has been named the Missouri Athletic Club (M.A.C.) Hermann Trophy Award winner. The award is the highest individual honor in intercollegiate soccer. Hanks is the fifth BIG EAST women’s soccer player to earn national player of the year honors and the first BIG EAST women’s soccer player to earn repeat honors as she took home the award as a sophomore in 2006. She was the first sophomore to win the award.

 

Hanks tallied 84 goals and 73 assists in her career to total 241 points. She is just the third player in NCAA history to amass 70 goals and 70 assists in a career joining Mia Hamm and Jenny Streiffer. She also is the only player to exceed 73 goals and 73 assists in a career. She owns 63 school and NCAA records and complied a conference-best 20 goals and 15 assists this year to total 55 points. Hanks finishes her collegiate career tied for second on the NCAA career assists list. She also ranks in the top 20 in seven other NCAA career scoring categories. Hanks and the 2008 Irish women’s soccer team (26-1-0, 11-0-0 BIG EAST) advanced to the national championship contest of the NCAA Championship.

 

Former BIG EAST women’s soccer players to win the MAC Hermann Trophy include Anne Makinen (2000) and Notre Dame’s Cindy Daws (1996). UConn’s Sarah Whalen (1997) and Notre Dame’s Jen Renola (1996) and also have won the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Player of the Year award.

 

The winners were decided by a vote of NCAA Division I soccer coaches who are current members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

Hanks who won the MAC Hermann Trophy in 2006, becomes just the fourth two-time winner joining Mia Hamm (North Carolina, 1992-93), Cindy Parlow (North Carolina, 1997-98) and Christine Sinclair (Portland, 2004-05). She is the only player, male or female, to win the award in non-consecutive years. The only Division I player to rank in the top-five nationally in goals, assists and points this past season, she was named a NSCAA/adidas first-team All-America.

 

During her four-year career at Notre Dame, the Irish posted a 92-10-3 (.890) record, winning three BIG EAST titles (2005, 2006 and 2008) and advancing to the NCAA College Cup three times (2006-08), including the national championship match twice (2006 and 2008). This season, Hanks helped Notre Dame raise the bar even higher, as the Irish reeled off a school-record 26 consecutive victories to open the campaign, soaring to No. 1 in the national polls for the majority of the year.