Kurt Naugler of Westford, Mass., Tabbed CoSIDA Academic All-District I for Third Straight Season

2015 Nov 12

WPI senior Kurt Naugler has been named to the CoSIDA Division III Men's Soccer Academic All-District I team, as selected by Division III sports information directors from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. It marks the third consecutive year that Naugler has garnered the honor and he is now under consideration for Academic All-America status.

Naugler, a mechanical engineering major and NEWMAC All-Conference first teamer, paced the Crimson and Gray with eight assists, and led the NEWMAC with five in conference play, while ranking second with 14 points. He scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner, in the Worcester City Tournament against Becker and added one against Anna Maria. Naugler also doled out a pair of assists at Clark, versus Wheaton, and against Fitchburg State. In four years on Boynton Hill, Naugler scored 12 goals, eight of which were game-winners, and pitched in with 15 assists for 39 points in 70 games.

Academically, Naugler's IQP, "Using Technology to Enhance Opportunities in a Disadvantaged Community through Online Advocacy and Computer Education," was completed outside of Melbourne, Australia in the Spring. The Tau Beta Pi honor society treasurer is also a member of the Pi Tau Sigma honor society and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, while finding time to volunteer at the Global Harvest Festival conducted by Heifer International each fall.

The Engineers claimed the fifth-seed in the 2015 NEWMAC Men's Soccer Championship following their fourth consecutive double-digit win season overall (11-7-2) and a 3-3-1 ledger in league play under third-year head coach Brian Kelley. WPI took nationally-ranked Brandeis and Amherst to double overtime in a span of five matches that included a total of seven extra sessions and back-to-back OT wins at Clark (2OT) and Salve Regina.

About Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Projects Program. There are more than 45 WPI project centers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.