May 6, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference recently announced the 2009 NEWMAC Spring Academic All-Conference Team. Once again, MIT reigned supreme, collecting a league-best 48 honors, and finishing the year with a total of 124 awards.
Honoress 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 fall semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Spring sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include: baseball, women's crew, women's lacrosse, softball, men's tennis, and men's and women's outdoor track and field.
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.
Springfield secured the second-highest number of honorees with 41 selections, followed by WPI with 25. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Baseball
William
Blackman
Cameron
Brown
Brian
Doyle
Daniel Hyatt
Thomas
Phillips
Women's
Lacrosse
Stephanie
Brenman
Edith
Reshef
Lauren
Rodda
Lynne Tye
Softball
Maia
Bageant
Keri Dixon
Kaitlyn
McCartney
Jessica
Oleinik
Aubrey
Tatarowicz
Men's
Tennis
Ryan
Castonia
Jonathan
Farm
Robert
Habib
David Iba
Peden
Nichols
Ken Van
Tilburg
Men's Outdoor Track
and Field
Hemagiri
Arumugam
Matthew Bieniosek
Jack
Bourbonnais
Yermie
Cohen
Logan Daum
Jonathan
Garrity
Andrew
Musacchio
Adam
Mustafa
William Phipps
Jake
Ruzevick
Nathaniel Sharpe
Vladimir
Sobes
Gregory Tao
Ian Tracy
Women's Outdoor Track
and Field
Julie Andren
Adrienne
Bolger
Hazel
Briner
Jennifer
Doyle
Erika
Erickson
Caroline
Figgatt
Elizabeth
Finn
Karin
Fisher
Alina
Gatowski
Victoria
Hsu
Emily
Hwang
Margaret
Leibovic
Amy
Magnuson
Jacqueline Wentz