King Voted First Team Academic All-American
11/19/2007 7:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Nov. 19, 2007
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Senior Stephen King was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team, announced November 19 by CoSIDA. The second-year captain is one of the top midfielders in the country and has excelled in the classroom, earning a 3.63 grade point average while majoring in finance.
This is King's second Academic All-America selection as he was a third team honoree in 2006. He is the only player from the ACC on the 12-man first team.
King, who will graduate after the fall semester, has achieved a perfect GPA of 4.0 in two of the last three semesters. In addition to being a third team Academic All-American last year, he was also named to the NSCAA/adidas College Men Scholar All-America Third Team and the All-ACC Academic Team.
The Medford, N.J. product has put together a fine senior season with 12 assists which is just three away from the single-season record set by Gino Ferrin and Keith Beach in 1985 and 1998, respectively. King currently leads the ACC in assists and is second in the nation in that category. His three assist performance on November 3 against No. 14 Virginia tied the program record for assists in a game.
King is second all-time in career assists at Maryland with 32 and his 92 points ranks sixth. With one more goal, he will have 31 which will rank 10th. He has been the workhorse for the Terrapins since his arrival in College Park in 2004, earning a start in every contest Maryland has played. He has started in 91 games in the red and black which is a program record.
King and the rest of the Terps (10-5-4) will learn their NCAA fate on Monday night when the bracket is announced live on ESPNews between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m.
