CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- Eleven America East student-athletes were honored on the 2007 Women’s Soccer All-Academic squad, which was released by the conference office on Wednesday afternoon. Click here for the complete release in PDF format.
The All-Academic team consists of Binghamton’s Kim Povill (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa), Boston University’s Emily Pallotta (Andover, Mass./Andover) and Marisha Schumacher-Hodge (Pittsburgh, Pa./Schneley), Hartford’s Elizabeth Cook (Halifax, Nova Scotia/Halifax Grammar) and Laura Guigli (North Stonington, Conn./Wheeler), Maine’s Laura Harper (Nepean, Ontario/Mother Teresa) and Anjelica Hodgson (York, Maine/York), New Hampshire’s Caitlyn Serafine (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua) and Michelle Sheehan (Belmont, Mass./Belmont) and Stony Brook’s Brook Barbuto (Syracuse, N.Y./Corcoran) and Jackie Timmes (Mastic, N.Y./William Ford).
Sheenan also earned the conference’s Player of the Year award. Overall, the All-Academic team consists of seven first-team all-conference members and four second-team choices.
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 nominee on the post-season awards ballot, which is determined by the league’s head coaches. Team size for team sports is based on the number of athletes that participate in a contest at one time (e.g., 11 on the field for soccer). Freshmen are not eligible for the all-academic teams and grade-point averages are taken from the semester prior to the competing athletic season.