First year the award has been handed out by the conference

RINDGE, N.H. (March 3, 2010) – Franklin Pierce University standout Angelika Johansson (Falkenberg, Sweden) recently earned the Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete Sports Excellence Award for the sport of women’s soccer. It marks the first year the NE-10 is handing out such awards to one representative of each league-sponsored sport.

Johansson, a mathematics major with a 3.98 cumulative grade point average, started all 24 matches this past season for Franklin Pierce as she recorded 20 goals (second-straight season she had at least 20 goals) and assisted on three others for 43 points. She ranked among the national and conference leaders in both categories.

Johansson earned All-Northeast-10 First-Team honors along with NSCAA All-America accolades this season. The junior forward also received ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District I First-Team honors and was later named to the publication’s Academic All-America Second-Team. She was also named to the NE-10 Academic All-Conference team for the second straight season.

For more information on Franklin Pierce women’s soccer, please visit the team’s page at athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.)