14 Skyhawks received the new NE10 academic honor for graduates with Magna and Summa Cum Laude recognition
NE10 Announces Inaugural Recipients of Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence
EASTON, Mass. (May 14, 2021)– The Northeast-10 Conference announced this year that they will be awarding the newly established NE10 Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence to those NE10 graduating student-athletes who have attained the Latin honor of Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude at their institution.
The awardees have participated in at least two seasons of NE10 competition and are a current student-athlete at the time of graduation.
Stonehill College's 70th commencement will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 10 a.m. The Baccalaureate Mass will be celebrated today, Friday, May 14 at 4 p.m. Commencement exercises will follow detailed health and safety guidelines issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Commencement will take place on W.B. Mason Stadium. In-person attendance is limited, and family and friends can access the Mass and the Commencement ceremony virtually via a livestream.
2021 NE10 Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence Awardees
Summa Cum Laude
Kathleen Giusti – Women's Track and Field
Derek Ivey – Football
Michael McShane– Men's Soccer
Magna Cum Laude
Sophia Anderle– Women's Cross Country & Women's Track and Field
Miranda Ciccarelli– Women's Soccer
Jack Fields – Football
Genna Hartman – Softball
Fiona Jordan– Women's Track and Field
Jared McCracken – Ice Hockey
Julia Perrone– Softball
Sophia Poveda – Women's Volleyball
Eric Rauker – Football
Michel-Ange Siaba– Men's Track and Field
Ryan Weis – Football
With 23 intercollegiate sports, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. Stonehill has won the Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup six times, all coming within the last 15 years, after receiving the Cup for the winter sports season in 2019-20 while holding an overall lead in the standings prior to the remainder of the athletic calendar being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March. Stonehill won seven NE10 Championships during the 2019-20 academic year, with six programs earning NCAA Division II Championship bids. The Skyhawks have received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first ten years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. Stonehill has earned a 92% Academic Success Ranking (ASR) by the NCAA, which considers the academic success rate of the institution based on the graduation rate of student-athletes, good for third in the NE10 and 18th among all NCAA Division II institutions, with seven Skyhawk teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%.
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