NEWMAC Announces 2008 Fall Academic All-Conference Team
Nov. 13, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2008 NEWMAC Fall Academic All-Conference Team. Once again, MIT reigned supreme, collecting a league-best 51 honors.
Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2008 spring semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Fall sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include: field hockey, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, and women's volleyball.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
WPI secured the second-highest number of honorees with 37 selections, followed by Springfield with 32. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Men's Cross
Country
Tyler
Abrams
Hemagiri
Arumugam
Matt
Bieniosek
Jack
Bourbonnais
Yermie
Cohen
Kevin
Kleinguetl
Bill
Phipps
Jake
Ruzevick
Women's Cross
Country
Adrienne
Bolger
Jennifer
Doyle
Elizabeth
Finn
Alina
Gatowski
Maria
Monks
Jacqui Wentz
Field Hockey
Priscilla Army
Alona
Birjiniuk
Katie
Boothe
Keri Dixon
Jessica
Oleinik
Danielle
Smith
Men's
Soccer
Andrew
Bishara
Peter Bojo
Jason
Bouhenguel
Tom
Caldwell
Matt
Cornachione
Josh
Gafford
Tristan
Kooistra
Alexander
Mannion
Jacob
Shapiro
Adam
Talsma
Christian
Therkelsen
Jason Zhu
Neil
Zimmerman
Women's Soccer
Stephanie
Brenman
Lauren
Hernley
Katie
Pesce
Julia
Roberts
Sarah
Smith
Monique
Squiers
Liz
Theurer
Sarah Vega
Jodie Wu
Women's Tennis
Sheena
Bhalla
Leslie
Hansen
Sonya
Makhni
Emily
Onufer
Karina
Pikhart
Yi Wang
Women's Volleyball
Katrina
Ellison
Alex May
Emily Obert