Hall of Fame Refreshes College Honors Display to Include UT Title Team

ONEONTA, N.Y. - The National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum has refreshed the College Honors displays in the Museum to recognize the sixteen 2007 National Collegiate Champions and the recipients of the MAC/Hermann Award as the top male and female players in collegiate soccer.

New champions and Mac/Hermann recipients O'Brian White of the University of Connecticut and Mami Yamaguchi of Florida State University are pictured in the display.

"We are very pleased to honor these teams and individuals who have achieved greatly during the past collegiate season," Hall of Fame and Museum President Steve Baumann said. "It is especially sweet this year as Broome Community College, one of our local schools, won the National Junior College Division III Women's Championship."

The National Collegiate Champions are:
NCAA Division I Men: Wake Forest University
NCAA Division I Women: University of Southern California
NCAA Division II Women: University of Tampa
NCAA Division II Men: Franklin Pierce College
NCAA Division III Men: Middlebury College
NCAA Division III Women: Wheaton College
NCCAA Division I Women: Indiana Wesleyan University
NCCAA Division I Men: The Master's College
NCCAA Division II Men: Manhattan Christian College
NCCAA Division II Women: Crown College
NAIA Women: Martin Methodist College
NAIA Men: Azusa Pacific University
NJCAA Division I Men: Yavapai College
NJCAA Division I Women: Community College of Baltimore County - Catonsville
NJCAA Division III Women: Broome Community College
NJCAA Division III Men: Richland College

About the Hall of Fame

The Mission of the National Soccer Hall of Fame is to Celebrate the History, Honor the Heroes, Inspire the Youth and Preserve the Legacy of Soccer in the United States.

Located in Oneonta, N.Y., the National Soccer Hall of Fame opened a new 30,000 sq.ft., state-of-the-art multimedia museum in 1999 and is open every day of the year except Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving. The Hall of Fame tells the story of soccer in America through artifacts, photographs, video and written narratives. The main VideoWall portrays some of the greatest moments and the greatest goals in soccer history as well as live soccer action from the World Cup, MLS, and U.S. Soccer matches. The Hall features an extensive interactive, youth oriented Kicks Zone, including a kid-sized indoor field, where visitors have fun kicking, heading and playing computer trivia stations and video soccer games. Unique and rare artifacts on exhibit range from The Dewar Cup, the oldest team trophy in U.S. Sport, to the Women's World Cup won by the USA in 1999, the uniforms of Pele and Mia Hamm's, Kristine Lilly's golden shoes, NASL championship rings, and MLS championship trophies. That and so much more are all at the National Soccer Hall of Fame. In addition to the interactive Museum, the National Soccer Hall of Fame's 61-acre complex boasts the Kicks Hall of Fame Museum Store, a research library, four world-class soccer fields and office/meeting facilities.

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