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ALBANY, N.Y. - Carli Clemis, a junior goaltender at Dartmouth College, has been named the 2007-08 ECAC Women's Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year, it was announced Friday at the 25th ECAC Women's Hockey Annual Awards banquet.  The second recipient of the award, which recognizes academic achievement of ECAC Hockey student-athletes, Clemis was one of three finalists for this year's honor. Yale's Danielle Kozlowski and Princeton's Micol Martinelli also were finalists.

Clemis is a former ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Year, first-teamer and four-time ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week.  She is fourth all-time in career wins at Dartmouth with 41, while second all-time with a 2.11 goals against average in two-plus seasons with the Big Green.  Off the ice she is a model student-athlete.  Majoring in Biology with a focus for Pre-Med, Clemis holds a 3.70 GPA and is a member of the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team.  She has been involved in many community projects including being a team leader for Relay for Life, volunteer for the Kidney Foundation of Canada and at the Taber Hospital in Alberta, and a member of the Alpha Phi International Fraternity, which main philanthropic focus is the American Cancer Society. 

Each school was asked to nominate a top scholar athlete who met the following requirements: a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 on a 4.00 scale through the fall term; participation in a minimum of 50 percent of the team's contests (33 percent of team's minutes for goaltenders); demonstrated leadership on and off the ice (e.g., character, contributions to the community, participation/involvement in institutional groups/committees, etc.).

The finalists were selected by a committee made up of athletic department and university administrators.

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ECAC Hockey boasts elite student-athletes and teams from 12 of the nation's most prestigious institutions - Brown University, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, Union College, and Yale University.