43 Rams Named to Fall 2010 MASCAC All-Academic Team
Buzzards Bay, Mass. - Nearly 500 student-athletes, including 43 student-athletes from Framingham State University, have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Fall 2010 All-Academic Team as announced by MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann this afternoon.
Women’s soccer led the way with 11 student-athletes honored, while field hockey and football had 10 honorees apiece. Men’s soccer and volleyball each placed five and cross country placed two on the MASCAC Fall All-Academic team.
Honorees from the 2010 women’s soccer team include senior Jill Johnson (Mathematics), junior Taylor Benton (Fashion Design and Retailing), sophomores Lauren Bova (Undeclared), Kristen Espinola (Undeclared), Megan Gangell (Undeclared), Kara Herbert (Fashion Design and Retailing) and Jillian Waters (Sociology) and freshmen Jess Latini (Undeclared), Michelle Mendes (Biology) and Kaitlyn Rossi (Modern Languages).
Field hockey seniors Andrea DiTerlizzi (Liberal Studies), Allesha Kenyon (Sociology), Kristen Sacco (Art Studio), and Kira Terill (Psychology), and junior Kristin Gentili (Food and Nutrition) qualified for the All-Academic Team along with freshmen Katherine Devoe (Communication Arts), Brittany Goben (Biology), Kelsey Hayes (Undeclared), Cassandra Koegel (Mathematics), and Cristina Valente (Communication Arts).
Members of the football team recognized on the All-Academic Team include seniors Phil Cosmos (History), Anthony Pappagallo (Communication Arts), and Travis Wright (Communication Arts), juniors Bobby Donoghue (History) and Mike Timmons (Sociology), sophomores Joe Masucci (Business Administration) and Patrick Morrissey (History), and freshmen George Hennessey (Undeclared), Randall Kelleher (Business Administration) and Pat Lamusta (Business Administration).
Also honored were Brian Catalfamo (History), Brunno Goncalves (Communication Arts), Richie Greene (Sociology), Greg Halle (Business Administration), and Ronaldo Vieira (Business Administration) from the men’s soccer team, Allie Appleman (Geography), Nicole Donofrio (Liberal Studies), Andressa Fernandes (Economics), Jackie Friel (Psychology) and Liz Harding (Health and Consumer Sciences) from the volleyball team and freshmen Katherine Anderson (Food and Nutrition) and Monique LaPierre (Psychology) from the 2010 cross country squad.
Student-athletes that compete in championship varsity sports offered by each of the eight MASCAC institutions during the course of the recently completed Fall 2010 academic semester and have achieved a 3.20 cumulative or semester-based grade point average during the semester are eligible for selection to the Fall All-Academic Team.
What began in 1970 as the vision of Massachusetts State College Trustee Howard C. Smith has evolved into one of the nation’s most prestigious athletic conferences over the last four decades, and during the course of the 2010-11 academic year, the overall excellence of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference will be the focus of celebration during the league’s 40th Anniversary. Throughout the year, the MASCAC will honor numerous student-athletes, teams, coaches, administrators and other individuals who have had a profound impact in shaping the rich history and tradition of the member institutions that have comprised the league since Smith’s vision became reality in June 1971, and that celebration will in the words of Commissioner Baumann, “will truly bring to light what the mean of the term ‘student-athlete’ is really about.”