INDIANAPOLIS – Various Great Midwest Athletic Conference men’s soccer student-athletes received postseason awards from different organizations following the conclusion of the 2016 season.
 
A total of six were named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Midwest Region Team. Twenty-two were honored between the first and second teams.
 
Leading the way on the NSCAA All-Midwest Region First Team was Davis & Elkins senior defender Lukas Grosse-Puppendahl. Puppendahl was the only G-MAC selection to the first team after being named the conference’s 2016 defensive player of the year.
 
Despite missing the conference tournament due to injury, Grosse-Puppendahl received high honors from CoSIDA, the NSCAA and D2CCA for his work on and off the pitch.
 
Grosse-Puppendahl earned CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team honors and coinciding Academic All-District Team status. He became just the fifth player in conference history to receive the national award.
 
He was joined on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team by senior teammate Benjamin Pastur, a 3.92 GPA double major in finance and economics.
 
D&E had two other standouts appear on the NSCAA All-Midwest Region Second Team with freshman forward Tim Staerz and junior midfielder Pablo Salvador Lopez.
 
Additionally, on the NSCAA All-Midwest Region Second Team, conference tourney champ Alderson Broaddus had three selections, including junior Shavon John-Brown, freshman Ashley Sibisi and senior Alec Andall.
 
All three Battlers have been individual award conference winners at some point in their careers (John-Brown – 2016 G-MAC Offensive Player of the Year; Sibisi – 2016 G-MAC Freshman of the Year; Andall – 2015 G-MAC Defensive Player of the Year).
 
On the D2CCA Midwest Region Team, Grosse-Puppendahl once again represented the G-MAC with first-team accolades while John-Brown garnered second-team status.
 
Grosse-Puppendahl played in 68 total games and finished with 41 points to rank seventh all-time in conference history. With 19 goals, including seven in game-winning fashion, he ranks sixth all-time. In his four-year career, he was a three-time G-MAC All-Conference selection, including first-team honors as a junior and senior.