For the second year in a row, The College of Wooster's Chantal Koechli was one of 12 players within the college division (NCAA Div. II and III, and NAIA) to be selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team for women's soccer, announced the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Tuesday.

Koechli, a senior midfielder with a 3.97 grade-point average as a biology and molecular biology major, becomes just the second two-time first-team Academic All-American® at Wooster, with football standout Blake Moore '80 being the other.

Earlier this week, Koechli picked up first-team all-North Coast Athletic Conference recognition following a 12-point season. She scored four goals and distributed assists on four others, while also playing an integral role on a defense that yielded less than a goal per game (0.89), highlighted by nine shutouts.

Koechli wrapped up her career with 47 points, including 23 assists, which was the second-most in school history. She started all four seasons (72 matches), earning three all-NCAC citations as well as third-team all-Great Lakes Region mention as a junior (2009 honorees will be announced later this fall) and leading the Scots to a 49-21-6 record (.684) from 2006-09.

Off the soccer pitch, Koechli has been elected into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society and spent this past summer performing environmental biology research (optimizing cyanogenesis in soil microbes) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Additionally, she is the co-chair of the Wooster Volunteer Network and active with the Lincoln Way Reads program.

Created in 1952, the Academic All-America Teams program now annually honors 816 male and female student-athletes who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.