Three America East student-athletes earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American status this week as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
UMBC junior men's swimmer Keilan Freeman (Calgary, Alberta) was a second-team choice as announced on Tuesday, June 8. Freeman is a mechanical engineering major with a 4.00 grade-point average (GPA).
The women's all-american teams, which were announced earlier today, Thursday, June 10, include UMBC senior tennis player Alice Chen (North Potomac, Md.) and Albany senior women's lacrosse player Olivia Jarem (Clifton Park, N.Y.). Both also earned second-team honors with 4.00 GPAs in their respective majors, biochemistry & molecular biology and pyschology, respectively.
Freeman was
part of the 800-yard freestyle relay team that broke the UMBC and
America East Championship record for the third-straight year at the 2010
America East Swimming and Diving Championships. He also finished ninth
in the 200 back and the 400 IM and 10th in the 200 free at the
conference meet. An outstanding student, Freeman has a 4.00 GPA in
mechanical engineering. He was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the
Engineering Honors Society, as well as Chi Alpha Sigma, the National
College Athlete Honor Society this spring.
Chen was one of six women’s tennis players in the America East
Conference to earn a spot on the league’s All-Academic team. Playing at
the No. 1 singles slot, she posted a brilliant record of 16-6 in her
senior campaign. A repeat winner from the spring of 2009, she was a
second-team all-conference selection in doubles competition. Recently, she was awarded a 2010 Maryland Association of College Directors of
Athletics (MACDA) postgraduate scholarships, which recognizes three student-athletes for superior work in the classroom and
on the field. Chen was a three-time member of the America East Commissioner’s Honor
Roll, and she was named to both the President’s and
Dean’s Lists every semester of her academic career.
Jarem recently received a
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, one of 13 females honored nationwide,
and plans to study sports psychology in graduate school. She was the
recipient of UAlbany's Presidential Scholar-Athlete Award as the
school's top senior female student-athlete and the State University of
New York Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. Jarem
totaled 31 goals and four assists for the nation's second-ranked scoring
offense. The Clifton Park, N.Y. native, is 10th among the conference
leaders in goals. She led the Great Danes to their first-ever top-20
national ranking, a school-record 13-3 campaign and the program's first
America East Conference regular-season title. Jarem netted two or more
goals in 11 contests and posted a .534 shot percentage.
The Women’s At-Large program for Academic All-America® includes the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, tennis and water polo, while The Men’s At-Large program for the
Academic All-America® includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics,
ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis and water
polo. To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.