16 Rams Named to 2011 MASCAC Spring All-Academic Team

Buzzards Bay, Mass. — Nearly 330 student-athletes, including 16 student-athletes from Framingham State University, have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) with selection to the league’s Spring 2011 All-Academic Team as announced by MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann.

Softball leads the way with ten student-athletes honored, while women’s lacrosse placed five and baseball placed one on the All-Academic squad. 

Honorees from the 2011 softball team include seniors Kasey Phipps (Liberal Studies) and Kelly Reardon (Food & Nutrition), juniors Katie Donovan (Liberal Studies) and Alysia Morrissette (Business Administration), sophomores Olivia D’Alessandro (Billerica, Mass.), Sherren Doyle (Business Administration), Taylor Ezold (Mathematics) and Yaya Faria (Psychology), and freshmen Kim Danish (Psychology) and Molly McKinnon (Communication Arts). 

Sophomores Heather Masse (Business Administration) and Brittany McLean (Food & Nutrition), and freshmen Carissa DiTullio (Food & Nutrition), Rebecca Rixan (English) and Kaitlyn Rossi (Modern Languages) were honored from the women’s lacrosse team, while senior Chris Brassard (Business Administration) was honored from baseball. 

Student-athletes from the eight institutions that compete in MASCAC spring championship varsity sports during the recently completed Spring 2011 semester and have achieved a 3.20 cumulative or semester-based grade point average during the most recently completed semester of matriculation are eligible for selection to the Spring All-Academic Team.

What began in 1970 as the vision of Massachusetts State College Trustee Howard C. Smith has evolved into one of the nation’s most prestigious athletic conferences over the last four decades, and during the course of the 2010-11 academic year, the overall excellence of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference will be the focus of celebration during the league’s 40^th Anniversary.  Throughout the year, the MASCAC will honor numerous student-athletes, teams, coaches, administrators and other individuals who have had a profound impact in shaping the rich history and tradition of the member institutions that have comprised the league since Smith’s vision became reality in June 1971, and that celebration will in the words of Commissioner Baumann, “will truly bring to light what the mean of the term ‘student-athlete’ is really about.”