For Immediate Release
Thursday, November 3, 2022
NSIC Media Relations

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – Minnesota State’s Jenny Vetter was voted by the league coaches as the NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year for women’s soccer.  A native of Mankato, Minnesota, Vetter is a fifth-year senior majoring in biology and holds a 4.00 cumulative grade point average. 
 
The “NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award” is presented to a NSIC women’s soccer student-athlete who participates at their institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to their team and the University. The NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year award was initiated in 2020-21 to honor an outstanding senior that exemplifies the attributes of the model NSIC student-athlete.

On the pitch, Vetter is a  three-time NSIC Player of the Year, two-time All-NSIC first team, the 2019 D2CCA Central Region Player of the Year and NSIC Tournament MVP.  She finishes her career with 39 goals in NSIC matches, ranking her fourth all-time.  She also amassed 94 points (39 goals & 16 assists) in her career, also good for fourth in the NSIC record book. 

In the classroom, Vetter is a NSIC Myles Brand Award winner, a NSIC Honor Student-Athlete, a multiple year recipient of the NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence and was the first MSU women's student-athlete to become a three-time CoSIDA All-American.

”Jenny is one of the most humble, caring, hardworking individuals I have ever met. She has represented our program, university and community with incredible class. She has been a model of what a student athlete should be and has given so much of herself to our university, community and to our program as well as the NSIC..” said Minnesota State Head Coach Brian Bahl. 


About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 25 team national championships and crowned 96 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes have the opportunity to earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.
 

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