Men's Lacrosse

Arsenault Earns USILA Scholar All-America Award

Arsenault Earns USILA Scholar All-America Award
Posted: Jul 25, 2023

STANDISH, Maine – Recent Saint Joseph's College graduate Eli Arsenault (Saco, Maine) has earned Scholar All-America honors from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA).

All Scholar All-Americans nominees must be a student with senior academic standing and a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale who behaves in a manner that brings credit to himself, his institution and to college lacrosse both on and off the field. Nominees must also be an All-American, a member of a North/South All-Star team, or an outstanding league or conference player.

Arsenault is the first player in SJC men's lacrosse program history to garner the high academic accolade.

A two-time First Team All-Conference honoree, Arsenault tallied 40 ground balls, 29 caused turnovers, and three goals during his senior campaign. In 47 career games, the senior LSM registered nine goals, seven assists, 138 ground balls, and 56 caused turnovers. He is just the second player in program history to claim First Team honors in consecutive seasons (2022, 2023).

Arsenault is one of just four Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) players recognized on the elite national list, which honored 134 athletes from across NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse.

Under the watch of seventh-year Head Coach Bill Cosentino this spring, Saint Joseph's posted a 10-8 overall record with an 8-2 mark in conference play. The Monks secured the #4 seed in the GNAC Tournament and hosted #5 Dean College in a quarterfinal contest on Friday, April 28th. St. Joe's trailed early but tied the game with a third-quarter surge, 9-9, before ultimately suffering a season-ending 15-9 defeat.

After starting the season with an 0-5 record, the Monks proceeded to win 10 of their next 12 games en route to earning the right to host a first-round playoff game for the first time since 2019.

The 2023 team established new program records for goals (249), assists (161), points (410), man-down goals (6), shots on goal (519), and caused turnovers (264) and ranked highly in NCAA DIII in caused turnovers per game (4th, 14.67) and opponent clear percentage (.676).

 

2023 USILA DIII SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS

 

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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.

 

 

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