Two Great Northeast Athletic Conference baseball
student-athletes earned recognition for their performance in the
classroom as well as the athletic field this spring. Suffolk junior
outfielder Rory Gentile (Gloucester, MA) and Emerson junior
outfielder Peter Karl (Wallingford, CT) were both named to ESPN the
Magazine’s Academic All-District teams by the College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Gentile was a first-team selection for District 1. Gentile
currently maintains a 3.75 cumulative grade point average as a
Business Management major in Suffolk's Sawyer School of Management.
This season Gentile has been a catalyst for the Rams offense. The
centerfielder was named as a first team All-Conference selection by
the Great Northeast Athletic Conference as well as being named to
the GNAC All-Tournament team for his strong play in helping Suffolk
claim the 2009 conference championship.
Karl was a second-team selection for District 1. He currently
maintains a 3.56 cumulative grade point average as a Broadcast
Journalism major. Earlier this spring Karl was named as a first
team All-Conference selection by the Great Northeast Athletic
Conference.
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSida)
selects Academic All America teams in 12 programs: football,
women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball,
women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track &
field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's
at large and women's at large. A first team, second team and third
team are selected in both the University (Division I and I-AA) and
College (Division II, III and NAIA) Divisions.