14 Rams Named to 2010-11 MASCAC Winter All-Academic Team

Buzzards Bay, Mass. — Nearly 300 student-athletes, including 14 student-athletes from Framingham State University, have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Winter 2010-11 All-Academic Team as announced by MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann yesterday afternoon.

Ice hockey leads the way with eight student-athletes honored, while women’s basketball had five honorees and men’s basketball had one. 

Honorees from the 2010-11 ice hockey team include senior John Sheehan (Business Administration), juniors Michael Colleran (Environmental Science) and Charles Vaillancourt (History), sophomore Ben Pacific (Food and Nutrition), and freshmen Peter Baldwin (Business Administration), Chris Geibe (Psychology), Herbert Kyles (Business Administration) and Nate Strah (Business Administration).

Women’s basketball seniors Jill Johnson (Mathematics) and Nicole McConaghy (Communication Arts), sophomores Michelle Hagerty (Geography) and Kia Minor (Undeclared) and freshman Julie Teehan (Liberal Studies) qualified for the All-Academic Team along with men’s basketball senior Anthony Pappagallo (Communication Arts).  Pappagallo and Johnson earn their second MASCAC All-Academic honors of the year as both were also named to the 2010 MASCAC Fall All-Academic Team.

Student-athletes from the nine institutions that compete in MASCAC winter championship varsity sports that 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 Winter 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.”