Stockpiling Hardware It was another banner year for Yellowjacket sports teams in 2021-22, or more accurately, a ten-banner year. In a show of dominance, Yellowjacket sports teams combined to claim ten Upper Midwest Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championships. Women’s soccer and men’s tennis swept the regular season and tournament titles, the first such championships for both programs. Men’s soccer claimed both the regular season and tournament championships, pushing their run to four straight regular season and five straight tournament championships. Men’s cross country, men’s indoor track and field and men’s outdoor track and field each raised a banner, as did softball, winning the UMAC regular season title for the first time in program history. The athletic excellence was punctuated with UW-Superior claiming the UMAC’s Jerome Kruse All Sports Trophy for the first time in school history.
Individually, Yellowjacket student-athletes claimed 19 major awards from the UMAC and the WIAC, plus five coaches were named the conference’s coach of the year. UW-Superior also boasted its first All-American since 2016, when men’s hockey player Artur Terchiyev earned AHCA All-American Second Team honors. In the classroom, Yellowjacket student-athletes again outperformed the general student population, posting a cumulative grade point average of 3.293. In total, 171 student-athletes received academic all- conference recognition from the UMAC and WIAC, with sophomore women’s soccer player Niya Wilson being named Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America. “Our student-athletes are committed to success, both in the classroom and in the athletic arena, and as a group they put together one of the best years in the history of our university,” Bursik said. “All of the honors, from championships to individual awards to the Kruse trophy are a testament to their hard work and dedication to being their best.”
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