BOSTON ? For the second-consecutive season, America East Conference honors its men’s and women’s cross country student-athletes with the naming of an All-Academic Team for both sports. The awards, which are garnered by student-athletes with exceptional athletic and academic achievements, were announced on Monday (November 6).
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Featured on the men’s team is Boston’s Phil Shaw (Andover, Mass.), Maine’s Kirby Davis (Falmouth, Maine/Falmouth) and Josh Trevino (Rochester, N.H./Spaulding), New Hampshire’s Jordan Horwitz (Evanston, Ill./Evanston) and Stony Brook’s Shaun Krawitz (Auckland, New Zealand/Auckland University). All of these runners placed in the top 10 at the America East Championship and had GPAs of 3.0 or higher.
On the women’s side is Albany’s Jenna and Jessica Ortman (Williamsville, N.Y./Williamsville South), Katie Radzik (Mt. Sinai, N.Y./Mt. Sinai) of Binghamton, Boston’s Claire Robson (Durham, United Kingdom) and Marisa Ryan (Farmington, Conn.), New Hampshire’s Emily Mareb (Great Barrington, Mass.) and Catherine Parker (Westford, Mass.) and Stony Brook’s Dana Hastie (Wellington, New Zealand/Newlands College). Overall eight of the top-10 finishers at the America East Championship posted GPAs of 3.60 or better.
The All-Academic squads are a product of the June 2005 Athletics Director meetings. Faculty representatives and athletics directors from each of the conference’s nine member institutions decided to honor some of the league’s top athletes that are also quality students.
The All-Academic Team has been selected based on the student-athlete’s academic and athletic accomplishments. Academic achievement for consideration requires student-athletes to have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 entering the season. Athletically, student-athletes are required to be a top 10 finisher at the America East Cross Country Championship meet. Freshmen are not eligible for the all-academic teams and grade-point averages are taken from the semester prior to the competing athletic season.