Seventeen Engineers Earn All-Academic Accolades
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TROY, N.Y. – ECAC Hockey has announced its members of the
2010 Men’s All-Academic Team and 17 Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) student-athletes have been recognized, including
six who are making their third straight appearances on the
list.
Honorees include Alex Angers-Goulet,
Bryan Brutlag, Erik
Burgdoerfer, Jerry
D’Amigo, Jeff Foss,
Scott Halpern, Tyler Helfrich, Christian Jensen, Paul Kerins,
Joel Malchuk, Bryce Merriam, Peter Merth, Marty O’Grady,
Chase Polacek, Justin Smith, Garett Vassel and
Mark Zarbo.
A senior, Vassel is making his fourth appearance on the
league’s All-Academic Team, while juniors Foss, Halpern,
Helfrich, Malchuk and Polacek are all three-time honorees. Two-time
selections include seniors Jensen, Kerins and Merth, as well as
sophomores Angers-Goulet and Smith.
As a team, the Engineers men produced the third most selections of
any ECAC Hockey school. Brown, which had 28 selections, led the
league followed by Quinnipiac, which had 19. Rensselaer and
Dartmouth each had 17, while Union was one behind with 16. Colgate
had 15 selections, followed closely by both Harvard (14) and
Princeton (14). Cornell and St. Lawrence each had 13, followed by
Yale (11) and Clarkson (4).
The Rensselaer women’s hockey team had 15 All-Academic
honorees for a combined 32 total, falling one shy of
Dartmouth’s league-high 33 selections.
Student-athletes are eligible for the All-Academic Team if they
have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.00 on a 4.00
scale or have an average GPA of 3.00 over the past three
semesters.
The Engineers finished last season with an 18-17-4 overall record
and a 10-9-3 mark in ECAC Hockey play, earning home ice in the
playoffs for the first time since the 2005-06 campaign.
