Finalists Named for League’s Student-Athlete-of-the-Year Award
ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey today announced the finalists for
the 2011 Women’s Student-Athlete of the Year Award. Katharine
Chute, Harvard, Clarkson’s Katelyn Ptolemy and Jackee
Snikeris of Yale have each been selected as finalists for the honor
by the League’s coaches.
Chute, a senior forward concentrating in Organismic &
Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, is a three-time ECAC Hockey
all-academic selection (2008, 2009 and 2010) who currently holds a
3.853 cumulative grade-point average. Chute has received either an
A or A- in every class but one while at Harvard and that was a B+.
The Spring Lake Park, MN native has demonstrated a balance and
sensitivity with her teammates, that has yielded the highest
respect. Chute is known to live her life on a high-level striving
for personal excellence. She has also been involved with the local
community tutoring elementary students. Chute has excelled on the
ice as well playing in 128 career games, amassing 64 total points
on 26 goals and 38 assists. Upon graduation Chute is interested in
pursuing research in graduate school.
Another finalist for the prestigious Student-Athlete Award is
Katelyn Ptolemy from Clarkson. The junior blue liner rapidly
emerged as a leader in and out of the classroom for the Golden
Knights. Ptolemy currently boasts a 3.62 grade-point average
majoring in Biology and minoring in Psychology. She is known as an
exceptional student with superb ability to remember facts and apply
them to new situations and analyze them thoroughly. The National
Scholar Athlete has also taken part in several community affairs
while in Potsdam, including; Salvation Army Holiday Drive,
Community Clean-ups, Relay for Life, Big Brother and Big Sisters
programs, and Learn to Skate events. Often referred to as selfless
and confident, Potlemy serves as an Assistant Captain for the Green
and Gold.
Senior goaltender Jackee Snikeris is the third finalists for the
league’s Student-Athlete Award. Snikeris is a pre-med History
of Science, History of Medicine major who has a 3.59 cumulative GPA
and will receive her fourth ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team selection
this season. In addition to working at a nearby hospital and having
some of her work there published in the Journal of Surgical
Radiology, she has also volunteered at a local hospice for the past
two years and taught skating to local middle schoolers. She has
been a part of team-wide initiatives to raise awareness of the need
for bone marrow donors and umbilical cord blood donors to help save
the lives of patients in need, inspired by her teammate Mandi
Schwartz’ battle with cancer. She has taken part in
Yale’s Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society and
helped teach sports skills to local children. She has also been a
part of a program that pairs local brain tumor patients with Yale
sports teams. On the ice, Snikeris re-wrote the Yale record book
many times over. She holds the school’s career records for
save percentage (.931), goals-against average (2.12) and shutouts
(16). She also holds the single-season Yale records for save
percentage (.941, 2010-11) and goals-against average (1.67,
2008-09) and is tied for the shutout record (five, 2008-09).
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