Soccer student-athletes Mami Yamaguchi of Florida State and O’Brian White of Connecticut have been named as winners of the 2007 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy, presented to the top female and male players in Division I. The winners are determined by Division I members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Both award winners are junior forwards who led Division I in scoring. Yamaguchi is the first Hermann winner from Florida State.

She led the country in points (66), while finishing second in goals (24) and assists (18). Yamaguchi was recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Year and earned her first NSCAA/adidas first-team All-America honor.

Yamaguchi led the Seminoles to the national championship game for the first time in school history. In the 2007 NCAA tournament, she paced the Seminoles with three goals and eight assists. Her eight assists rank as both a single-season and an all-time postseason school record. Yamaguchi owns an assortment of other school scoring records.
White led all Division I men’s scorers with 53 points and 23 goals. He is the third Connecticut player to win college soccer’s top individual honor.

White helped the Huskies capture their third Big East Conference title in four years and earn the No. 1 ranking in the NSCAA/adidas final regular-season rankings. He had multi-goal efforts on seven occasions, including three hat tricks, becoming the first player in school history to tally hat tricks in back-to-back games.

The Missouri Athletic Club has been presenting college soccer’s players of the year awards since 1986. The MAC was established in 1903 as an athletic, dining and social club.