Missouri State defender Justin Douglass and forward Ryan Anderson have been named to the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division I All-Midwest Region Second Team, as named by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Thursday. Both are repeat selections from a season ago, when Anderson was named to the first team and Douglass the second team.
Douglass earned First Team All-MVC honors for the second consecutive season as the team’s co-captain. The senior from Spring, Texas, started all 19 matches for Missouri State this season and tallied 69 starts in his career. Douglass scored three goals and added three assists in 2006. The Strake Jesuit High grad anchored a backline that helped record seven shutouts and allowed a league-low 15 regular season goals. Douglass was also named to the 2006 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second-consecutive season and was named the MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Sept. 13. Last season, Douglass was named a Second Team NSCAA/Adidas Men’s Scholar All-American and Third Team CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American, as he became only the second player in school history to earn both awards. Douglass maintains a 3.18 grade-point average in cell and molecular biology.
Anderson also was a repeat First Team All-MVC selection after leading the Bears with four goals and 10 points in 2006. The junior from St. Charles, Mo., led the MVC with 89 shots and moved into sixth on the school’s career goals chart, with 23, and seventh in points, with 54. Before the season, Anderson was one of 25 players named to the Hermann Trophy watch list for the nation’s best player after scoring 15 goals and earning the league’s Co-Player of the Year award as a sophomore in 2005. The St. Charles West High grad earned Second Team NSCAA/adidas All-America honors a season ago, making him the first Bear in school history to receive the award. This season, Anderson earned the MVC Offensive Player of the Week award on Oct. 17 following a game-winning goal in overtime of the Bears’ 1-0 victory over Western Kentucky on Oct. 14.
Missouri State finished the season with an 8-8-3 record, which included a 3-2-1 MVC mark, and ended with a 3-1 loss to Eastern Illinois in the quarterfinals of the State Farm MVC Tournament.
