NE10 Goaltender of the Year earns his first NE10 Sport Excellence Award
NE10 Announces Winter Sport Excellence Award Winners
Stonehill NE10 Sport Excellence Award Winners
Schoen |
EASTON, Mass. (April 22, 2020) – Stonehill College senior Matthew Schoen has been tabbed Northeast-10 Conference men's ice hockey Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence award winner, as announced by the league on Wednesday.
Last week, the Conference announced the Winter NE10 Academic All-Conference teams and Stonehill saw seven student-athletes selected by a pool of faculty athletic representatives, senior woman administrators and athletic communications directors. This number was the third highest in the conference for the winter programs.
Schoen, who is majoring in finance with a minor in management information systems has culminated a 3.67 GPA and is just the third Skyhawk to earn the honor after Billy Palmer '19 and Dana Borges '13 earned it both twice.
Schoen, earned his first NE10 Academic All-Conference award last week from the Conference after playing in 23 of 29 games this season. The senior goaltender tallied 59 goals against, 2.62 goals against average, 828 saves, .933 save percentage, all with a 12-7-3 record. Among the NE10 he finished first in games played (23), saves (828), save percentage (.933), and wins (12), third in goals against average (2.62), and seventh in goals against (59). The senior earned his first honor from the NE10 as he was named NE10 Goaltender of the Year, Stonehill's fourth Goaltender of the Year, and tabbed on the NE10 All-Conference first team. Following the Championship game, the senior was named the NE10 All-Tournament Most Outstanding Player as well as tabbed on the NE10 All-Tournament Team.
Schoen was tabbed as the NE10 Most Outstanding Player as well as NE10 Goaltender of the Year |
Academically, the Tolland, Connecticut native has been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll six times, the Athletic Director's Honor Roll five times and the Dean's List. For the past two seasons, Schoen was also selected as an American Hockey Coaches' Association (AHCA) All American Scholar and Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award winner. He is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Stonehill's Business Honor Society. During the first week of April, the Skyhawks also announced their St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, medalists and Schoen was named as a first-time recipient for having the highest cumulative grade point average on their respective teams through the fall 2019 semester.
With 23 intercollegiate sports after announcing the addition of women's swimming for the 2020-21 academic year and women's ice hockey for 2021-22, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. Stonehill has won the Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup five times, all coming within the last 14 years. The Skyhawks have received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first nine years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. Stonehill has earned a 95% 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 tenth among all NCAA Division II institutions, with nine Skyhawk teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%.
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