Greening Named Academic All-District

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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell sophomore Colin Greening has been named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District Second Team in the At-Large program for District I, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America Thursday.

Greening finished his second season at Cornell with 14 goals and 19 assists for 33 points to lead the Big Red. His 14 goals were the most on the team for the second consecutive season, and he earned second-team All-ECAC Hockey and All-Ivy League honors for his play in both leagues. Greening, a native of St. John's, Newfoundland, had eight multi-point games, including Cornell's first hat trick since 2005 when he scored three goals against Dartmouth on Feb. 29. A two-time Academic All-ECAC Hockey honoree, he was a nominee for the ECAC Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year award. Greening served as an assistant captain as a sophomore, the first second-year player to do so in the 13-year tenure of head coach Mike Schafer. Greening enters his junior season with 52 career points on 25 goals and 27 assists in 67 career games. Greening has a 3.83 grade-point average and is undecided on a major.

The At-Large program includes student-athletes in those sports that do not have their own program in the Academic All-America program. Teams at Cornell that are included in the men's at-large program include the golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, tennis and wrestling. For the women's program, the women's rowing, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving and tennis teams are included in the at-large category. Schools are limited to three nominees, each of whom must have a minimum grade-point average of 3.20 on a 4.00 scale, be a starter or important reserve, and must have completed a minimum of one full academic year at the institution. District I of the University Division includes all Division I schools in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec.

The total number of Cornell student-athletes named to the 2007-08 Academic All-District Teams is 13, tying the number set in 2003-04 for the most in a year in the last five years, with the men's and women's track and field teams still to come this year.