Austin Skakle

Classroom

Skakle has a 3.74 grade point average as a biology/pre-med major. He was named to the Academic All-District 3 men’s soccer University division second team (2008) by the College Sports Information Directors of America (District 3 includes all NCAA Division I schools in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia). He is a three-time member of the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Academic Team. He was presented Campbell’s Eric Brodin Award for Academic Excellence for the 2008 season. He was a Presidential Academic Scholarship recipient and earned President’s List honors in each of his last four semesters, and Dean’s List honors once. He is also a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society.

Character

Skakle was presented Campbell’s Coaches Award for the 2008 season. He is active in community and church projects. He is a member of Campbell University’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Community

Skakle was heavily involved in community service projects for the last three years and will be so again this year, including Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Christmas Child and the Red Cross Blood Drive. He is a volunteer with Grace Community Church, Relay for Life, Think Pink, Operation In-as-much, Buies Creek Elementary School Fall Festival, Coats Elementary School Fall Festival and soccer clinics.

Competition

Skakle is a three-year starter in the defense for Campbell, which won the 2008 Atlantic Sun regular-season championship with a 9-0-0 league record and finished the 2008 season with a 14-6-0 overall record, a No. 25 national ranking by Soccer America and a No. 3 rating in the South Region. He was in the starting 11 each time during Campbell’s school-record 12-game winning streak, including a 2-0 victory over seventh-ranked North Carolina. Skakle helped lead Campbell to the best team goals-against average (0.99) and the most shutouts (9) in the Atlantic Sun Conference. He has played in 48 career games with 40 starts. He has helped Campbell build an 18-3-4 record in A-Sun regular-season games over the past three years. He was a starter for the 2007 Campbell team which won the A-Sun tournament championship and claimed the school’s first-ever NCAA Men’s College Cup bid in 2007.