STANDISH, Maine – The 2023 United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) Scholar All-America awards have been announced and nine Saint Joseph's College alpine skiers have claimed the high academic honor.
Junior Maeghan Perkins and sophomores Lillian Souweine (Bangor, Maine) and Jacob Morris (North Woodstock, N.H.) have earned First Team Scholar All-America honors for the second-consecutive season while freshman Sienna Mack (Lincoln, N.H.) and juniors Courtney Pingree (Marblehead, Mass.) and Erica Irvin (Windham, N.H.) have collected Second Team accolades. Sophomore Maddie Zordan (New Hartford, Conn.) and freshmen Jack Price (Franconia, N.H.) and Colin Rathbone (Groton, Mass.) are on the Honorable Mention list.
Pingree, Irvin and Zordan are also second-time recipients of the annual academic accolade.
To earn USCSA Scholar All-American honors, athletes must be a member of a team that advanced to the National Championships and have a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average or higher. First Team honorees sport a GPA of 3.80 or higher, Second Team recipients have a GPA in the 3.50-3.79 range, and those who have a 3.30-3.49 GPA claimed Honorable Mention honors.
As a fourth-year varsity program, and for the second-consecutive season, Saint Joseph's sent the men's and women's teams to the USCSA National Championships after both teams placed in the top seven in the USCSA Regionals at Sugarloaf Mountain on February 18-19th.
Under the watch of Head Coach Margot Cosentino, the SJC women finished 15th and the Monks' men placed 22nd in the USCSA Slalom National Championships at Mammoth Mountain (Calif.) on Thursday, March 9th.
The Saint Joseph's men's team won six races this winter and claimed the USCSA Reynolds Division Championship with 12 points, three ahead of UMaine-Farmington, while the St. Joe's women placed second in the Reynolds standings with 16 points, three behind the Beavers' tally, after winning a pair of events with seven runner-up performances during the 2023 campaign.
