Alpine Skiing

Seven SJC Alpine Skiers Claim USCSA Scholar All-America Accolades

Posted: Mar 16, 2022

STANDISH, Maine – The United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) Scholar All-America awards have been announced and seven Saint Joseph's College alpine skiers have claimed the high academic honor.

Sophomore Maeghan Perkins and freshmen Lillian Souweine (Bangor, Maine) and Jacob Morris (North Woodstock, N.H.) have earned First Team Scholar All-America honors, senior Sarah Hotchkiss (New Durham, N.H.) and sophomores Erica Irvin (Windham, N.H.) and Courtney Pingree (Marblehead, Mass.) have collected Second Team accolades, and first-year Madelyn Zordan garnered Honorable Mention acclaim.

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.

In just their third year as a varsity program, the Monks achieved several historical program-firsts this winter. Under the watch of Head Coach Margot Cosentino, both SJC teams for the first time earned berths into the 2022 USCSA Eastern Regional Championship, where the women and men placed fifth and seventh, respectively, at Sugarloaf Mountain.

By virtue of their top-seven finishes in the regionals, both programs qualified for the USCSA National Championships for the first time with the women posting a 17th-place finish and the men placing 18th at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.