Former Montana soccer standout Alexa Coyle, now in her first month as a member of the Hibernian Womenâs Football Club of the Scottish Womenâs Premier League, was named one of 22 Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athletes for the 2020-21 school year, the league office announced on Thursday.
Coyle helped Montana advance to two NCAA tournaments and claim four Big Sky regular-season and tournament titles while leading the Grizzlies in points all four years of her playing career.
Her 19 career goals are tied for ninth in program history. She is tied for fourth in game-winning goals (nine).
Coyle, four times named Academic All-Big Sky, graduated in May with a 3.96 GPA as a management information systems major. As a senior she was voted first-team Academic All-District 6 by CoSIDA and second-team Scholar All-West Region by the United Soccer Coaches.