AUSTIN, Texas – Alabama’s Felicia Knox was named the College Sports Communicators’ Soccer Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, highlighting the list of five Crimson Tide players named Academic All-Americans Tuesday.
Knox joins Riley Mattingly Parker, Gessica Skorka, Reyna Reyes and Kat Rogers as a 2022 Soccer Academic All-American, nearly doubling Alabama soccer’s all-time total. Alabama is the only school with multiple honorees as Knox, Parker and Skorka were named first-team academic All-Americans and Reyes and Rogers were named third-team honorees.
Crimson Tide Academic All-America Honors
- The UA soccer team now has 11 academic All-American honorees with 12 accolades
- This season marks the first time in program history that more than two UA soccer student-athletes have received AAA recognition
- Overall, Alabama has had 221 all-time NCAA Division I Academic All-Americans, ranking the Tide fifth among NCAA Division I programs
- Alabama is second all-time in honors since 2000 (185), 2010 (137) and 2020 (39) trailing on Stanford over all three spans
- With Knox’s honor, Alabama has now seen 13 Crimson Tide student-athletes earn Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in their respective sports a total of 15 times, with Knox becoming the first UA soccer player to join the elite list
Alabama’s 2022 Academic Soccer All-Americans
- Riley Mattingly Parker and Kat Rogers both have 4.0 GPAs in their graduate programs with Parker working on a master’s degree in marketing and Rogers earning a degree in restaurant, hotel and meetings management
- Gessica Skorka has a 4.0 GPA in kinesiology, while Reyna Reyes holds a 3.57 GPA in business and Felicia Knox holds a 3.95 in hospitality management
- Knox holds an NCAA-leading 20 assists this season, shattering the program record, while ranking 11th in the NCAA for points with 34
- Parker leads the NCAA game-winning goals (7) and ranks sixth in both goals (17) and points (41), setting the UA record in all three categories
- Rogers ranks 23rd in the NCAA for total assists with nine this season, including three against Chattanooga to rank third all-time in single-game assists
- On defense, Reyes and Skorka led the backline to a school-record 12 shutouts out and 23 wins
- The defense allowed just 20 goals all season and averaged 8.9 shots per game from an opposing team
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