42 Rams Named to Fall 2011 MASCAC All-Academic Team

Buzzards Bay, Mass. — A total of 500 student-athletes, including 42 from Framingham State University, have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Fall 2011 All-Academic Team as announced by MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann.

Football and women’s soccer lead the way with 12 and 10 student-athletes honored respectively, while cross country placed seven on the All-Academic squad.  Men’s soccer and field hockey each placed six and volleyball placed one on the 2011 MASCAC Fall All-Academic team.

Honorees from the 2011 MASCAC Champion football squad include senior Tyler Luiz (Business Administration), juniors Alex Avery (Psychology), Greg Beatrice (History), Keenon Cunningham (Communications), Tyrone Figueroa (Business Administration), and Joe Masucci (Business Administration), sophomores Aaron Ferreira (Business Administration), George Hennessey (Undeclared), Pat Lamusta (Business Administration) and Tory Rich (History), and freshmen Brian Montambault (Psychology) and Nnamdi Ogbaegbe (Business Administration).

Honorees from the 2011 women’s soccer team include senior Taylor Benton (Fashion Design & Retailing), juniors Lauren Bova (Elementary Education), Sarah Carey (Business Administration), and Taylor Ezold (Business Administration), sophomores Kayla Austin (Criminology), Jessica Latini (Psychology), Cara Murtagh (Psychology), and Kristi Stewart (Psychology), and freshmen Emily Biegner (Undeclared) and McKenzie Vershon (English).

Senior Joe Jarvis (Sociology), juniors Greg Hartwich (Communications), Alex Martin (Food & Nutrition) and Colin Mettey (Biology), sophomore Monique LaPierre (Psychology) and freshmen Janet Brady (Biology) and Joseph Schow (Undeclared) were honored from the cross country team.

Members of the 2011 MASCAC Regular Season and Tournament Champion men’s soccer team included on the All-Academic team include junior Bryan Damas (Business Administration), sophomores Andy Baptista (Communications), Henrique DaSilva (Business Administration) and Ronaldo Vieira (Business Administration) and freshmen James Doleman (Undeclared) and Billy Levitsky (Sociology).

Also honored were Katie Devoe (Communications), Brittany Goben (Biology), Emma Littlefield (Criminology), Demi Miskiv (Studio Art), Rhea Urbaniak (Undeclared) and Hannah Wilkins (Undeclared) from the field hockey team and junior Jackie Friel (Psychology) was the lone representative from the volleyball 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 2011 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.

The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference, the nation’s oldest Division III men’s and women’s playing conference, has a rich and storied tradition of competitive success while celebrating excellence in the classroom.  MASCAC member schools include Bridgewater State University, Fitchburg State University, Framingham State University, MCLA, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Salem State University, Westfield State University and Worcester State University.  Two other institutions, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Plymouth State University, are affiliate members of the conference in the sport of men’s ice hockey.