Four Skyhawks bring the total to 30 Academic All-District® awardees
2021 Women's Cross Country and Track & Field CoSIDA Academic All-District Announcement
Stonehill's All-Time Academic All-District List
Anderle |
Giusti |
Sexton |
Mason |
EASTON, Massachusetts (July 29, 2021) – The Stonehill College women's cross country and track & field teams saw four Skyhawks selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® first team in District I, as selected by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in the East Region. The four included recent graduates Sophia Anderle, Kathleen Giusti, and Alexandra Sexton and rising senior Claire Mason.
They are now eligible for Academic All-America honors, selected by CoSIDA's Academic All-America committee, as well as voters from Division II, to be announced in early August. The four Skyhawks, earning their first honor from CoSIDA, add their name to a list of now 30 Stonehill women's cross country and track & field awardees, with the program's first honoree in 2005. Out of the 14 All-District I award winners, 11 were from the Northeast-10 Conference and the Skyhawks had the most selections.
Anderle, who graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors in May with a 3.79 GPA while studying biology, most recently earned 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 U.S. Track & Field Cross Country and Track & Field (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 with Summa Cum Laude honors this May with a 3.92 cumulative grade-point average as a health science major, also earned her first NE10 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 2021 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.
Sexton, who graduated in May with a cumulative GPA of 3.44 and Magna Cum Laude honors, while majoring in Marketing and Graphic Design, earned her fifth-career USTFCCCA All-East Region honor as a two-sport student-athlete this past season. The tri-captain cleared a career-best height of 3.50m (11-feet, 5.75 inches) in the pole vault at the 2021 NE10 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, where she was the individual champion earning All-Conference first team honors and the third-straight title for Stonehill in the event. The All-Conference nod was her fourth-career honor. She also competed in the 4x400-meter relay assisting the quartet to a fifth-place finish at the Championship. Sexton qualified for her fourth New England Championship during the outdoor season. She was part of Stonehill's American Institute of Graphic Arts organization, was an in-house design member, a peer mentor, and was part of the Student-Athlete Leadership Series. The Los Gatos, California native studied abroad in 2019 in Italy and has interned with a marketing agency in Palm Springs and Fremont, California.
Rising senior, Mason is studying Psychology and Business Management as she has averaged a 3.51 GPA thus far. She has totaled four NE10 All-Conference honors and two USTFCCCA All-East Region awards in her career as a three-sport student-athlete. This year as one of three captains in track & field, Mason was the individual champion in the 1500-meter run at the NE10 Championship earning the program's sixth title in seven years with a time of 4:45.71. She also competed in the 4x800-meter relay earning All-Conference honors taking home third with a time of 9:49.65 and the 800-meter run clocking in a time of 2:20.24, finishing fifth overall. In her first outdoor New England Championship, Mason earned All-New England honors placing seventh with a time of 2:18.30 in the 800-meter run. The East Lyme, Connecticut native is a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative for the cross country program, and she is a Stonehill Business Student Ambassador. She has been inducted into the Lux Et Spes and Psychology Honor Societies and has volunteered with the Spinal Cord Injury Unit in Brockton, Massachusetts. Currently she is interning with an online community Voice in Sport, where she is recruiting experts (sports psychologists, nutritionists, etc.) to join the platform so that young girls who sign up have access to them and other resources.
Stonehill wrapped up the season taking second place at the NE10 Outdoor Championships just two points behind Champion American International College and sending three to the New England Outdoor Championships.
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