Howick is the women's tennis program's third NE10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award recipient (PHOTO BY Jan Volk/SportsPix) |
Howick is program's third NE10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award recipient
Ormesher joins Howick in earning NE10 Academic All-Conference honors
NE10 Spring Scholar-Athlete Award announcement
Spring NE10 Academic All-Conference announcement
Stonehill's All-Time NE10 Scholar-Athlete Award recipients
Stonehill's All-Time NE10 Academic All-Conference selections
EASTON, Mass. (July 6, 2020) – Two members of the Northeast-10 Conference champion Stonehill women's tennis program have earned NE10 academic honors the Conference announced.
Howick |
Ormesher |
Recent graduate Annelise Howick highlights the award recipients for Stonehill by being selected as the NE10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence award recipient for women's tennis. She is joined on the NE10 Academic All-Conference team by sophomore Samantha Ormesher as the duo earn Academic All-Conference honors for the first time in their careers. Howick is just the third Stonehill women's tennis student-athlete to receive the Sport Excellence Award since the program started in 2009, joining Analise Kump, '16 and Paige Frost, '13, and the 34th all-time from Stonehill, including the third during the 2019-20 academic year. The duo gives the program 15 NE10 Academic All-Conference selections since the program started in 2007.
Howick, who graduated this spring with a 3.60 cumulative grade point average as a health science major, earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors and the Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award for the first time in her career. She earned a perfect 4.0 semester GPA this spring and received the Division II Athletic Director's Association (ADA) Academic Achievement Award and named an Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II Scholar-Athlete twice. Howick has been inducted to Lambda Epsilon Sigma honor society and been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll all eight semesters and Athletic Director's Honor Roll four semesters.
Howick is a two-time All-NE10 performer for Stonehill, helping the Skyhawks to NE10 regular season championships and NCAA Tournament bids all four years and NE10 Tournament titles as a junior and senior. She finished her career ranked No. 7 in the Oracle/ITA Division II East Region doubles rankings with freshman partner Cristina Solorzano Valencia, with the duo reaching the semifinals of the USTA/ITA Division II East Regional back in September. Howick and Solarzano Valencia earned All-NE10 second team honors this past spring at No. 2 doubles, posting a 15-3 record overall, including 7-1 in the NE10. Howick finished her career with a 50-36 career combined record in singles and doubles play, including a 41-26 career mark in doubles play, with a 20-8 NE10 record. She was also named to the All-NE10 first team, along with former partner and classmate Alexandra Vo in 2017, earning a regional doubles ranking of No. 10 by the ITA.
Ormesher earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the first time |
Ormesher, a rising junior with a 3.71 cumulative GPA as a biology major at Stonehill, earns NE10 Academic All-Conference honors for the first time in her career. She has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll all four semesters to date, with Academic Distinction status the last three semesters for having a GPA between 3.50 and 3.99, while being named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll four semesters as well.
Ormesher, named an ITA Scholar-Athlete as a freshman, is a three-time All-NE10 performer after collecting third team honors at No. 1 doubles last fall along with junior playing partner Isabelle Porter. Ormesher was an All-NE10 first team performer at No. 3 singles, earning second team honors at No. 2 doubles with Vo, as a freshman, when she was named the Most Outstanding Player for the NE10 Championships in helping lead the Skyhawks to their first tournament championship in five years. Ormesher posted a combined 14-10 record in singles and doubles play during her sophomore season, posting a 7-4 singles record, including 5-3 in the NE10, to go with a 7-6 doubles mark with three different playing partners, posting a 7-3 record in NE10 play, while she and Porter combined for a 6-5 mark, including 6-2 in the NE10. Ormesher enters her junior season having posted a career combined record of 38-24 in singles and doubles play, including 19-11 in singles play (14-5 NE10) and 19-13 in doubles (16-5 NE10).
Stonehill finished its 2019-20 season with a 12-3 record overall, including 9-1 in the NE10 to claim a share of its tenth regular season championship, winning the NE10 Tournament for the second-straight year and seventh time in program history. The Skyhawks has clinched the NE10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament this spring, which would have been the program's sixth-straight NCAA bid and 14th in program history overall.
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