Martin is the third Stonehill coach in program history to earn the NE10's Sandy Hoffman Coach of the Year Award (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard) |
Martin third Skyhawk coach to earn Hoffman Coach of the Year accolades
Remick earns All-NE10 first team accolades to headline Skyhawks four picks
Allen named to NE10 All-Rookie Team
NE10 Announces Volleyball Postseason Awards
EASTON, Mass. (November 18, 2021) – Stonehill College third year head coach Craig Martin has been named the Northeast-10 Conference's Sandy Hoffman Coach of the Year, with four members of the volleyball program earning All-NE10 honors and a fifth collecting NE10 All-Rookie Team accolades, as selected by the Conference's 14 head coaches, the league announced.
Senior Abby Remick headlines the list of four All-NE10 selections for Stonehill with a spot on the first team. Classmate Shannon Burgess and junior Basia Peragine were both named to the All-NE10 second team, while senior Carly Russell has earned All-NE10 third team honors.
Stonehill's four All-NE10 selections matches the program-record set in 2011 and give the program 42 All-Conference honorees in program history overall. It marks the second-straight season the Skyhawks have had an All-NE10 first team pick, with Remick joining former teammate Sophia Poveda, '21 who was a first team selection in 2019, and Remick is the 13th first team selection in program history overall.
Martin is just the third Stonehill head coach to earn the NE10's Sandy Hoffman Coach of the Year award after guiding the Skyhawks atop the NCAA Division II East Regional rankings for the first time in program history. He is the first Stonehill coach to earn NE10 Coach of the Year honors since Lauren Amundson in 2011, while Nguyen Le earned the honors in 1996.
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Martin has led Stonehill to 20 wins for just the eighth time in program history and its first since also winning 21 matches in 2014, which also marks its last ten-win NE10 season. The Skyhawks are 21-4 since opening with four losses at a tournament in Florida, including a stretch of 15 wins over 16 matches and 20 wins in 22. Martin has led Stonehill to a 40-19 (.678) record since becoming the 13th head coach in program history in June 2019. The Skyhawks are 19-7 (.731) in NE10 play under Martin, with back-to-back NE10 semifinal appearances. Martin has totaled 118 career wins, including his seven years as women's head coach at Mount Ida College.
Also earning postseason recognition is sophomore Jentry Allen with a spot on the NE10 All-Rookie Team. It marks the program's first All-Rookie selection since senior teammates Remick and Lauren Wilke in 2018 and the ninth overall since the NE10 started the All-Rookie program in 2008.
Remick, an NE10 All-Rookie Team selection as a freshman in 2018, earns All-NE10 honors for the first time with her first team selection. She has played all 29 matches for Stonehill this fall, averaging a team-high 3.08 kills and 3.5 points per set, while also contributing 0.29 service aces, 2.42 digs and 0.26 blocks per set, having scored a team-high 374.5 points this season. She ranks eighth among NE10 leaders for kills per set and tenth in scoring. Remick earned NE10 Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career on September 28 and has totaled a team-high 11 double-doubles this fall (15 career), including four of the last six matches. She registered a season-high 17 kills in a five-set win at Southern New Hampshire University on October 15 and collected a season-best 17 digs against American International College in September 25 and at Saint Anselm College on October 19.
Remick has appeared in 78 matches over her Stonehill career, having totaled 776 kills, 55 service aces, 487 digs, 67 blocks and 870.5 points. She is averaging 2.82 kills, 0.20 aces. 1.77 digs and 0.24 blocks per set over her career. Remick's 327 kills this season currently ranks seventh on the program's single-season list. She received the Fred C. Petti Academic Award recently for having the highest grade point average among all Stonehill student-athletes for the 2020-21 academic year (4.0) and has also earned the Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative GPA on the volleyball team. She has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll every semester at the College and received the Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award.
Burgess also earns All-NE10 honors for the first time with her spot on the second team. She has appeared in all 29 matches for Stonehill this fall, hitting .248 with 2.03 kills and a team-best 0.68 blocks per set (11th NE10), ranking third on the team in scoring with 277.5 points. She produced eight double-figure kill totals this fall, including a career-high 15 in five set wins at Mercy College and Adelphi University. Burgess tallied a career-high seven blocks in a five-set win at Bentley University on November 5.
Burgess has played 62 matches over her Stonehill career, totaling 375 kills, 37 service aces, 117 digs and 129 blocks, while scoring 492.0 points. She has received the Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award and been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll each semester at the College.
Peragine earns All-NE10 honors for the first time with her second team selection as well. She has played all 29 matches for Stonehill this fall and is averaging 2.93 kills, with a .228 hitting percentage, 0.35 blocks and 3.1 points per set this season. She is second on the team in scoring with 340 points, ranking 11th in the NE10 for kills per set. Peragine has totaled double-digit kills in a team-high 19 matches this season, including each of the last 14, posting a career-high 21 in back-to-back five set wins over Franklin Pierce University and Southern New Hampshire University on October 9 and 15, hitting over .350 in both matches.
Remick is the 13th student-athlete in program history to earn All-NE10 first team honors in volleyball (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard) |
Peragine has appeared in 59 matches over her Stonehill career, totaling 581 kills, 86 blocks and 636.5 points. She received the Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal as a sophomore for having the highest cumulative GPA on the team and has been named to the Dean's List, NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll all four semesters to date.
Russell earns All-NE10 honors for the first time with her selection to the third team. The two-time NE10 Libero of the Week has appeared in all 29 matches and leads the team with 4.74 digs and 0.36 service aces per set. She ranks fourth among NE10 dig leaders, while ranking 14th for aces per set. Russell is the first in program history to surpass 500 digs in a season with her program-record total of 507 this fall, matching her career-best with 31 twice this fall against Daemen College (9/18) and at Bentley (11/5). She broke the previous program digs mark of 487 by Erin Kelly, '13 in 2011.
Russell has appeared in 81 matches over her Stonehill career and has totaled 945 digs and 74 service aces in that time, averaging 3.19 digs and 0.41 aces per set. She is in her second year serving as president of Stonehill's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), having served as the volleyball team's SAAC representative all four years, having been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor roll each semesters.
Allen earns a spot on the NE10 All-Rookie Team after appearing in 27 matches and averaging 1.91 kills per set, while totaling 178 kills, 53 digs and 12 blocks. In 30 career matches, she has totaled 201 kills (1.97), 69 digs and 14 total blocks for 217.0 points. She has posted six double-figure kill matches this season, including a season-high 15, with just one attack error, for a .452 attack percentage in a win at Southern Connecticut State University on October 5.
Allen has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll both semesters, receiving the College's Excellence in First-Year Chemistry Award and is a member of the Pre-Heath Society at the College.
Stonehill (21-8, 10-3 NE10) is ranked No. 2 in this week's NCAA Division II East Region rankings after being ranked No. 1 for the first time in program history over the first two weeks of regional rankings. The Skyhawks are making their 24th NE10 Tournament appearance this week, reaching the semifinal round for the second-straight season and 11th time in program history overall. No. 3-seeded Stonehill will be seeking its first trip to the Championship match in program history tonight when it squares off against No. 2-seed University of New Haven for their semifinal at American International College's Butova Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m. The NE10 Championship match is scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m.
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