STANDISH, ME - The Saint Joseph's College field hockey program is one of 148 NCAA DIII teams to earn 2021 NFHCA Division III National Academic Team honors.
The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) presents the award to those institutions that achieve a minimum GPA of 3.0 during the first semester of the 2021-22 academic year. Saint Joseph's has now claimed the NFHCA academic honor on 11 occasions.
Earlier this month the Monks featured 16 players on the NFHCA National Academic squad, an honor bestowed up collegiate student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 3.3 or higher through the first semester of the current academic year.
Seniors Isabella Anton (Mont Vernon, N.H.), Alexis Beardsley (Livermore, Maine), Emma Dubuc (Burlington, Vt.), Olivia Esposito (North Reading, Mass.) and Elly Walker (Scarborough, Maine), juniors Aimee Adams (Gardiner, Maine), Molly McCluskey (Orono, Maine), Megan Quirion (Oakland, Maine), Cailin Seavey (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine) and Anna Walker (Scarborough, Maine), sophomores Kaelyn Blais (Berlin, N.H.) and Cailyn Wesley (Peabody, Mass.), and freshmen Kassidy Collins (Gardiner, Maine), Abbie Jacques (Mount Vernon, Maine), Danielle Libby (Windham, Maine), and Alison Michalik (Rutland, Mass.) garnered NFHCA All-Academic Squad honors, as announced on February 10th.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the highest team GPA with a mark of 3.86. Dean College came in second with a team-average 3.80. NCAA National Champion, Middlebury College, and NCAA runners-up Johns Hopkins University, also appear on the top-five performers list.
