BOSTON ? Eleven America East student-athletes were honored on the 2007 Field Hockey All-Academic Team on Thursday evening in conjunction with the field hockey championship banquet held in Boston.
The All-Academic team is comprised of Albany’s Ashley Ross (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley), Boston University’s Suus Dekker (Rotterdam, Holland/Insula College(Thuredrecht)), Sarah Hudak (Harleysville, Pa./Souderton Area), Fairfield’s Carly McCullough (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), Maine’s Erin Reusch (Salem, N.H./Salem), Amy Zdrojesky (East Greenville, Pa. Upper Perkomen), New Hampshire’s Margaux Shute (Norridgewock, Maine/Skowhegan Area), Vermont’s Danielle Collins (Walpole, Mass./Walpole), Maegan Luce (Hartford, Vt./Hartford), and Kim Striegler (Whitney Point, N.Y./Whitney Point).
Collins and Hudak were also named the Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively, at the banquet. The All-Academic Team consists of six first-team all-conference members and five second-team honorees.
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 nomination 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 field hockey). In the event that the number of student-athletes meeting the requirements is greater than the number that participate in a contest at one time, all-conference vote totals were used as the tie-breaking criteria. Freshmen are not eligible for the all-academic teams and grade-point averages are taken from the semester prior to the competing athletic season.