Field Hockey

Monks Earn NFHCA 2022 Division III National Academic Team Award

Posted: Feb 22, 2023

PHOTO CREDIT: LAUREL CLACE '25

STANDISH, ME - The Saint Joseph's College field hockey program is one of 59 NCAA DIII teams to earn 2022 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 3.5 during the first semester of the 2022-23 academic year. Saint Joseph's has now claimed the NFHCA academic honor on 12 occasions.

Earlier this month the Monks featured 10 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 Aimee Adams (Gardiner, Maine), Molly McCluskey (Orono, Maine), Megan Quirion (Oakland, Maine), and Anna Walker (Scarborough, Maine), sophomore Kassidy Collins (Gardiner, Maine), and freshmen Paige DeMascio (Greene, Maine), Emilia Galimberti (Wolfeboro, N.H.), Audra Gearin (Salisbury, Mass.), Kienna Haley (Scarborough, Maine), and Sadie Tirrell (Naples, Maine) garnered NFHCA All-Academic Squad honors, annouced on February 9th.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the highest team GPA with a mark of 3.86. Swarthmore College came in second with a team-average 3.83. NCAA runners-up Johns Hopkins University came in third with a 3.81 team average.

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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.