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Skyhawk seniors listed among 28 student-athletes nominated by 14 member institutions
NE10 Announces 2020-21 Male & Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Nominees
All-Time NE10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year Recipients
EASTON, Mass. (May 25, 2021) – Stonehill College seniors Sophia Poveda and Derek Ivey have been listed among the 28 nominees for the Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards, the Conference announced today.
Eligibility requirements for nomination are that a student-athlete must be in their final year of athletic eligibility, graduating with a degree in May (unless in a master's program), must be enrolled in a full-time course load and must have a minimum final cumulative grade point average of 3.30. A committee made up of faculty members and athletic administrators conducts voting for the awards. The 2021 NE10 Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year will be announced the night of Monday, June 7, as part of a pre-recorded live awards show on NE10 NOW – the Conference's digital streaming platform.
Poveda, who was yesterday listed as Stonehill's nominee for NE10 Woman of the Year, received Stonehill's Edward E. Martin Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year award earlier this month. She recently graduated with a 3.71 cumulative grade point average in the Moreau Honors Program, earning a Bachelor's Degree as a double-major in political science and international studies. She is a four-year letterwinner and two-year captain of the volleyball program who earned All-NE10 first team honors as a junior in 2019. She is a three-time Arthur Ashe, Jr., Sports Scholar, and two-time Division II Athletic Director's Association (ADA) Academic Achievement Award recipient, while receiving the St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative grade point average on the volleyball team.
It marks the second-straight year Stonehill volleyball has had an NE10 Scholar-Athlete nominee (PHOTO BY Mike Tureski/SportsPix) |
Poveda, who delivered the student address at Stonehill's Class of 2021 Commencement, has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll all seven semesters to date, with Academic Distinction status for having a GPA between 3.50 and 3.99 the last five semesters. She received the Presidential Scholarship all four years and has been named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll and Dean's List all seven semesters. Poveda is a Footlocker Scholar-Athlete Scholarship recipient and was honored as a U.S. Army/Pro Football Hall of Fame Award for Excellence National Finalist.
Poveda participated in the Goldman Sachs Undergraduate Camp in Dallas, Texas, in February 2019, from which she was selected for the company's Virtual Series Insight Scholar, and completed an internship with the United States Embassy, in Buenos Aires, Argentina the summer of 2019. She was a peer mentor at Stonehill with the Moreau Honors Program meeting and communicating with assigned incoming freshmen to assist with the college transition and a subject tutor with Stonehill's Center for Writing and Academic Achievement in Spanish, economics, political science, and business courses. During her sophomore year, Poveda was nominated by her coach to be involved in the Stonehill Leadership Development Series for student-athletes. Poveda is a Student Spokesperson for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) where she was a speaker at FCA Night of Champions, donor events, and school chapels.
Poveda played in 68 matches (227 sets) over her four-year Stonehill career, averaging 2.49 kills, 0.35 service aces and 2.31 digs per set as an outside hitter. She finished her career with 566 kills, 79 aces, 524 digs and 53 blocks, totaling 20 double-doubles. Poveda ranked sixth in the NE10 for aces per set (0.38) in 2019, while also ranking seventh in kills per set (2.88) and points per set (3.38) after ranking third among NE10 leaders with 0.47 aces per set in 2018.
Ivey, who received Stonehill's Edward E. Martin Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year award this spring, graduated last week with a 3.94 cumulative grade point average and Bachelor's Degree in economics. The National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy® semifinalist and Hampshire Honor Society member earned the NE10 Elite 24 Award this winter for having the highest cumulative grade point average among all NE10 football student-athletes. He is the third CoSIDA Academic All-American® in program history at Stonehill and the first football student-athlete to earn first team honors, having also collected CoSIDA Academic All-District® first team and NE10 Academic All-Conference accolades in 2019.
Ivey is an NE10 Scholar-Athlete nominee after receiving Stonehill's Martin Male Senior Scholar-Athlete Award (PHOTO BY Mary Gettens) |
Ivey is a two-time Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award recipient and been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll, Athletic Director's Honor Roll and Dean's List all seven semesters at the College to date. He received NE10 Academic Excellence status three semesters for having a perfect 4.0 GPA, to go with Academic Distinction Status four semesters with a GPA between 3.50 and 3.99. Ivey has been inducted into the Omicron Delta Epsilon and Lambda Epsilon Sigma Academic Honor Societies, been selected as the Economics Department's Outstanding Senior and is a two-time St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal recipient for having the highest GPA on the football team.
Named to Stonehill's Dean's List all seven semesters, Ivey served as a Teaching Assistant at Boston College during the summer of 2020, for two courses: Empirical Money and Banking, and Monetary Policy. He has also been a TA at Stonehill during the Fall 2020 semester for Money & Banking. Ivey managed an asset portfolio that outperformed the S&P 500 when comparing annualized returns as part of semester long portfolio projects. He has also volunteered his time at My Brother's Keeper in Easton, delivering food to families in need throughout the area.
Ivey, a four-year member of the Stonehill football team, started all ten games for the Skyhawks at right tackle in 2019, part of an offensive line that blocked for the top-ranked offense in the NE10 with a Conference-best 415.8 yards per game (21st nationally), including 193.7 rushing yards (2nd NE10) and 222.1 passing yards per game (4th). Stonehill ranked second in the NE10 for pass efficiency (141.04) and fewest sacks allowed (1.60/gm) and the line blocked for the program's first Harlon Hill Trophy candidate who set program records for rushing yards (1.513) touchdowns (16), total touchdowns (18), scoring (108 points) and all-purpose yards (1,611).
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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