Skyhawks recognized for academic excellence
United Soccer Coaches Announces 2019-20 College Team Academic Award Winners
EASTON, Massachusetts (September 29, 2020) – The 2019-20 Stonehill College men's soccer team was awarded their eighth-straight Team Academic Award, as announced by the United Soccer Coaches last week.
The award, which was initiated in 1996, honors collegiate and high school men's and women's soccer teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.00 cumulative team grade-point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale.
United Soccer Coaches recognized 918 teams, 348 men and 570 women. Stonehill was one of four Northeast-10 Conference teams to be recognized on the men's side.
The Skyhawks join Adelphi University, Bentley University, and the College of Saint Rose of those that earned the honor this year. Overall, Adelphi leads the way with 19 awards.
Senior Michael McShane has earned two Saint Thomas Aquinas Medals in his career, as he has had the highest cumulative grade point average on the team back-to-back years. Daniel Pereira '20 earned his first NE10 Academic All-Conference award following the conclusion of the fall season. Fourteen Skyhawks received NCAA Division II Athletic Director's Association Academic Achievement Awards, which includes a student-athletes' cumulative GPA higher than a 3.5.
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