2008-09 GNAC Headlines
Check out this week's athletes of the week in baseball, men's and women's lacrosse, softball and men's tennis.
Hadlock posted a combined 5-1 record on the week going 3-0 in singles play and 2-1 in doubles action out of the first spot.
The Suffolk University Athletic Department has announced that Steve Counihan will return as Head Coach for both Women’s and Men’s Tennis in 2009-2010. Counihan returns after leading Women’s Tennis to a 2007 Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship.
Great Northeast Athletic Conference Commissioner Joe Walsh is chair of the committee that has brought the Irish National Men's Basketball team to Boston for two weeks this summer.
Saint Joseph’s College Athletic Director Brian Curtin announced recently that Mike McDevitt has been named as the St. Joe’s Women’s Basketball Head Coach, filling the vacancy that was left by Deb Reardon last month.
Emmanuel College's senior cross country and track & field team captain Cathryn Lariviere (Windham, N.H.) was selected to The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 1st Team. Lariviere's most recent honor was officially announced on June 4, 2009. The Academic All-District selections are nominated and voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The selections make up first and second teams from the college and university divisions of eight different districts nationwide. Lariviere was one of just ten women chosen from the college division in the New England/New York region of the country.
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference has named Vaughn Calhoun as the Assistant Commissioner.
52 GNAC student-athletes were ranked in the top 20 of their respective sports for the 2008-2009 school year.
Mount Holyoke College sophomore Miki Yoshida (Hong Kong, China/Hong Kong Int'l) has been named to the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Her term of service will begin immediately and continue through May 1, 2012. Yoshida will represent both the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) and the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC).
The 2009 season will bring a lot changes to the Emmanuel College men’s soccer team. The Saints will finally be playing on their very own turf field, and they will be playing under the reign of head coach Colin Goin. After previous-head coach Julio Avila resigned, Goin, having assisted Avila the past two seasons, accepted the head coaching position at Emmanuel.
An Unsung Coach Hears through the Noise of a Black Athlete’s Dream is an inspiring true story as told by Tony Price. An Unsung Coach is a wake up call for young athletes who have a dream about who they can become. It challenges them to look beyond their self gratification of playing the game and helps them evaluate their potential to become team leaders or coaches who are willing and equipped to share their knowledge of sports on an administrative level.
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference recognized 503 student-athletes from 15 league sports on the 2009 Great Northeast Athletic Conference Academic All-Conference Team. Second-year student-athletes from all 13 member institutions who hold a cumulative 3.25 (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average for the 2008-2009 academic school year and are a member of a varsity team are eligible.
Emerson College lacrosse midfielder Maeghan Ross (So., Wrentham, Mass.) has been named to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Association Division III Pilgrim Region All-Region team. Ross, who was the 2009 Great Northeast Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year, was a second team selection, and was the only GNAC Player named to either of the first two teams.
Saint Joseph’s College junior pitcher/outfielder Pat Moran (Winterport, ME/Hampden Academy) has been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star Second Team as a utility player.
Lasell College senior attack Caitlyn Murphy (Kathonah, NY) has been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star Second Team.
Johnson & Wales senior Robert Newcomb (Quincy, Mass.) was named a 2009 Golf Coaches Association of America/Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar, announced by the GCAA at the annual Division III National Awards dinner recently at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center.
