Ormesher earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the second-straight year (PHOTO BY Doug Monson/Stonehill Athletics) |
Ormesher of women's tennis is Skyhawks lone repeat recipient of the nine
NE10 Honors 113 Spring Student-Athletes with Academic All-Conference recognition
EASTON, Mass. (July 1, 2021) – Stonehill College has placed nine of its spring student-athletes on the Northeast-10 Conference's Academic All-Conference teams for their performances on the field of play as well as the classroom, the league announced.
To be eligible for selection to NE10 Academic All-Conference teams, a student-athlete must have met or exceeded the following minimum requirements: Started in at least half or played in at least two-thirds of the team's competitions as a significant contributor and achieved a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) or better on a 4.0 scale. Each NE10 institution has at least one representative on the Academic All-Conference teams from this past spring, which marked the league's formal return to competition during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conference provided revised schedules and conducted ten spring championships – three more than usual with the additions of men's golf, women's golf and women's tennis.
Representing Stonehill on the NE10 Academic All-Conference teams are seniors Michel-Ange Siaba, the 2021 NE10 Man of the Year, and Ethan Famiano of the men's track & field program, Michelle Theilgard, Stonehill's Fr. John McCarthy, CSC, Female Leadership Award recipient, from the softball program, and Sophia Anderle and Kathleen Guisti from the women's track & field program, along with women's tennis junior Samantha Ormesher, an NE10 Elite 24 recipient, and sophomores Julia Dapron, the women's golf program's first ever selection, Lydia Rudden, from women's lacrosse, and Conor Kiely, in baseball.
Siaba |
Famiano |
Theilgard |
Ormesher |
Anderle |
Guisti |
Dapron |
Rudden |
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Kiely |
Siaba, the NE10 Man of the Year and Stonehill's Fr. William Gartland, CSC, Male Student-Athlete of the Year, recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.86 grade point average as a criminology major at the College and earns Academic All-Conference for the first time. He was a 2021 Fulbright Scholarship semifinalist, Presidential Merit Scholarship recipient and has been inducted to the Edwin H. Sutherland Criminology Honor Society. Siaba has been named to the Dean's List every semester enrolled at the College and has also earned NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll status each semester since transferring to Stonehill from Humboldt State University in California.
Siaba made an immediate impact with the track & field program at Stonehill over his two years with the Skyhawks, earning four U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-East Region awards. He added the honor in the long jump this spring to honors for the long jump, triple jump and heptathlon during the 2019-20 indoor season. This spring, he posted season-bests of 22-feet, 9-inches in the long jump and 46-feet, 3.5-inches in the triple jump, earning All-New England honors for the first time with his eighth place finish in the long jump at the 2021 New England Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Siaba was named Most Outstanding Field Athlete at the 2020 Northeast-10 Indoor Track & Field Championships after picking up three All-Conference performances at the event. He earned All-NE10 second team honors for the long jump and triple jump, finishing third in both events with distances of a school-record 23-feet, 1.75-inches and 46-feet 6.75-inches, respectively. Siaba was a third team All-NE10 performer in the heptathlon, posting a school-record 4,666 points for his third-place finish for that event.
Famiano, who earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the first time, also graduated recently from Stonehill with a 3.63 cumulative grade point average as an elementary education and philosophy double-major. He earned CoSIDA Academic All-District I first team honors as a junior in 2020 and has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll each semester at the College.
Famiano is a two-time USTFCCCA All-East Region performer for the 60-meter high hurdles over his career. He earned All-NE10 third team and All-New England honors for the 110-meter high hurdles in 2019. This spring he turned in a pair of first place finishes in the 110-meter hurdles at the Merrimack College Carnival (15.29-seconds) and Bentley University Dual Meet (15.53), while finishing second (15.11) in the Holy Cross Dual. Famiano also turned in a fifth-place finish in the 110m hurdles at the NE10 Championships (15.41) this spring.
Theilgard, who graduated in May with a 3.37 cumulative grade-point average as a finance major, earns her first Academic All-Conference honor. She started and played in all 29 games this season, averaged .330 at the plate, scored 18 runs and tallied 16 RBI. She recorded seven doubles, a triple and four homeruns with four stolen bases. Theilgard is a four-year letterwinner and two-year captain who is a three-time All-NE10 selection, with third team honors as a senior, while being also named to the NE10 All-Rookie Team her freshman year. During Stonehill's annual awards, Theilgard was named the Fr. John McCarthy, CSC, Leadership Award, and she has been named to the NE10 Academic and Athletic Director's Honor Rolls multiple semesters, while being named Stonehill's Spring Outstanding Junior Award recipient.
Over her career, Theilgard has appeared in 113 games, hitting .353 (117-for-331), with 30 doubles, two triples, 14 homeruns, and 65 RBI, while stealing 13 bases on 15 attempts. She has been active with the team's endeavors through Team IMPACT, while also volunteering for the Special Olympics and the Boys and Girls Club of Brockton. She has been named to the Financial Management Honor Society and been a member of Women in Finance (LAUNCH) and the ENGAGE Leadership Program at Stonehill.
Anderle, who graduated Magna Cum Laude in May with a 3.79 GPA while studying biology, earns her first NE10 Academic All-Conference honor. The three-season student-athlete assisted Stonehill to a runner-up place finish at the NE10 Outdoor Track & Field Championships this spring, where she took home second in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:36.55. The cross country co-captain also earned her fifth career USTFCCCA All-East Region honor and has competed in two NCAA Cross Country Championships. She was inducted into Stonehill's Lambda Epsilon Sigma honor society and received the athletic department's St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest GPA on the cross country team. Anderle has been named to the Dean's List, Athletic Director's and NE10 Academic Honor Rolls, while also earning two NCAA Division II ADA Academic Achievement Awards. She was a Resident Assistant at Stonehill, a Chemistry Peer Lead Team Learning Leader and was accepted for a service year at the Colorado Vincentian Volunteer House as a Social Case Worker.
Giusti, who graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.92 cumulative grade-point average as a health science major, earns her first Academic All-Conference honor. The two-sport student-athlete who competed in the high jump earned Stonehill's Health Science Department award prior to graduation. This past season, Giusti earned USTFCCCA All-East Region honors, bringing her career total to three, and finished sixth at the NE10 Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the high jump with a height of 4-feet, 11.75-inches (1.52m), as the team finished second overall. Giusti has earned two St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, medals for having the highest cumulative GPA on the women's track & field team, while being named eight times to the Dean's List, NE10 Academic and Athletic Director's Honor Rolls and earned two Division II ADA Academic Achievement Awards.
Ormesher, who has earned a 3.76 cumulative GPA as a biology major at Stonehill, earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the second-straight year. She was recognized with the NE10's Elite 24 Award at this spring's NE10 Women's Tennis Championship for having the highest cumulative GPA among all championship match participants and received the College's Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative GPA on the women's tennis team. The five-time All-NE10 performer is a two-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II Scholar-Athlete that has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll all six semesters at the College to date. Ormesher was selected to Stonehill's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, where she and a classmate are working this summer with Bronwyn Bleakley, Associate Professor of Biology, to investigate the Physiology of friendship: "How do guppies become familiar enough to cooperate?"
Ormesher, who earned All-NE10 third team honors at No. 5 singles and No. 2 doubles this spring, led Stonehill to the NE10 Championship match for the seventh-straight year and the program's 15th NCAA Tournament bid. She finished the season with a 15-7 combined record in singles and doubles play this season, posting a 7-2 singles mark (5-1 NE10) and 8-5 doubles mark (7-2 NE10). The 2018 NE10 Championship Most Outstanding Player and NE10 All-Rookie Team selection enters her senior year with a career combined record of 54-32, including a 27-14 singles record (19-6 NE10) and 27-18 doubles mark (23-7 NE10).
Dapron, who has earned a 3.31 cumulative GPA as a business management major, adds another program first to her outstanding sophomore season for the women's golf program. She not only earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the first time but is the first in the program's four-year history to be selected. The Dean's List student has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll three semesters.
Dapron earned All-NE10 honors for the first time as the first in program history named to the first team after being one of the first two NE10 All-Championship team performers this spring. She finished second at the 2021 NE10 Women's Golf Championship, marking the highest individual finish in program history (83-87=170), after being the first Stonehill golfer to hold a first round lead. Dapron finished in the top ten in all three of the Skyhawks events this spring, leading the team with an 86.40 stroke average over her five rounds. She now owns an 84.93 stroke average in 15 rounds over her career, posting the three career top tens and top five, carding a pair of career-low rounds of 80 as a freshman.
Siaba, the NE10 Man of the Year, adds Academic All-Conference honors to his list of accolades. (PHOTO BY Brian Foley) |
Rudden, who has earned a 3.83 cumulative GPA in Stonehill's Moreau Honors Program, has also been selected to the NE10 Academic All-Conference team for the first time. She received Stonehill's Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal this spring for having the highest cumulative GPA on the team and has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll, Athletic Director's Honor Roll and Dean's List every semester.
Rudden started all ten games for the Stonehill women's lacrosse program this spring, posting 13 goals and a team-high 19 assists for 32 points, ranking second on the team in points and third in goals. She ranked sixth among NE10 assist leaders and chipped in eight ground balls and a caused turnover. Rudden contributed a season-high six points with a goal and five assists in Stonehill's win over Southern New Hampshire University (4/21) and added five points with four goals and an assist in a win over Saint Michael's College on April 13. She enters her junior year with 17 goals and 29 assists for 46 points in 13 career games over her first two seasons.
Kiely, who finished his sophomore year with a 3.77 cumulative GPA, while majoring in finance earns his first NE10 Academic All-Conference accolade. The sophomore outfielder started all 32 games this season, hitting a career best .400 (46-for-115) at the plate, also leading the team in RBI (23), hits (46), runs (30), on-base percentage (.496), and slugging percentage (.487). The Skyhawks lead-off batter is the program's first All-Region selection since 2015, being named to the America Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-East Region second team. Prior to the honor, he was named to the NE10 All-Conference first team, the program's first first team selection since 2015, and the NE10 All-Rookie Team. Academically, he was named to the Dean's List and Athletic Director's and NE10 Academic Honor Rolls four times.
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 has 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. The Skyhawks 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 teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%.
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