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Welsh, Hodgson, Shannon, and Smith Garner United Soccer Coaches All-Region Honors

UNITED STATES — The United Soccer Coaches released its All-Region honors for the 2024 season. This year, senior goalkeeper Colin Welsh and junior midfielder Carson Hodgson garnered first-team selections, while redshirt freshman defender Christian Shannon and graduate student midfielder Owen Smith earned second-team honors. The Brown and Gold led the Missouri Valley Conference with four total selections and tied for a conference-high in first-team nods with two.

WMU impressively repeated with four All-Region selections in back-to-back years for the first time in program history. In 2023 WMU earned a program record five United Soccer Coaches All-Region honors (Jaylen Shannon (1st), Jonathan Robinson (1st), Charlie Sharp (1st), Dylan Sing (1st), and Carson Hodgson (2nd).