OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Maryland senior midfielder Mael Corboz has been named a candidate for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award.
A total of 60 NCAA men's and women's soccer student-athletes who excel both on and off the field were selected as candidates for the award in collegiate soccer. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition.
In the classroom, Corboz maintains a 3.4 GPA as an engineering major at Maryland and is a senior captain and leader of a youth-laden 2015 squad that includes 11 freshmen.
Corboz started a non-profit called the Healthy HeartBeets that focuses on educating children from lower-income areas regarding healthy eating. It started as a means of providing information about affordable alternatives to fast food but eventually became a larger nutrition education program through which he went to different schools and talked to young children about what they typically eat and taught them about healthier alternatives to those specific products.
A first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2014 after leading the Big Ten in goals scored (10), Corboz was named the Big Ten Championship Most Valuable Player after notching the game-winner against Indiana in the title game. He led the Terps to both regular season and tournament titles in Maryland's inaugural season in the Big Ten.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Each of the two candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one male candidate and one female candidate who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.
The Senior CLASS Award winners will be announced during the 2015 NCAA Men's and Women's College Cup championships in December.
Men's Soccer 2015 Candidates
Name, School
Amass Amankona, University of Dayton
Colin Bonner, UNCW
Bradley Bourgeois, The University of Tulsa
Biko Bradnock-Brennan, Charlotte
Jonathan Campbell, North Carolina
Mike Casey, Rhode Island
Mael Corboz, University of Maryland
Tyler David, Saint Louis Univeristy
Christian Duarte, CSU Bakersfield
Nick Edginton, Marshall University
Jack Gorab, Brown University
Clint Hoffar, IUPUI
Femi Hollinger-Janzen, Indiana University
Ryan James, Bowling Green State University
Vincent Keller, Creighton
Jesse Klug, Bucknell
Kyle MacDonald, Penn State University
Zach Mason, The Ohio State University
Joshua Mercer, NJIT
Jamie Merriam, West Virginia
Chase Minter, Cal Poly
Trevor Morley, CSUN
Cameron Niccum, Army West Point
Matt Pacifici, Davidson College
Philip Piper, Yale
Timo Pitter, Creighton
Nathan Steinwascher, University of Detroit Mercy
Scott Thomsen, Virginia
Brandon Vincent, Stanford
Todd Wharton, Virginia
