Parsons Chosen as Student-Athlete-of-Year Finalist
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HANOVER, N.H. -- Junior forward Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) was
one of three skaters to be named as finalist for the 2008-09 ECAC
Hockey Women’s Student-Athlete of the Year on Wednesday.
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); and demonstrated leadership on and off
the ice (e.g., character, contributions to the community,
participation/involvement in institutional groups/committees,
etc.).
Parsons joins Kristina Kester of Harvard and Yale’s Danielle
Kozlowski as the three finalists for the award. A committee made up
of athletics department and university administrators selected
three finalists. The winner will be announced during the week of
the Women’s ECAC Hockey Championship.
She is a member of Link-Up, a student-run group that matches
incoming freshman women with female mentors from the senior class
on campus. Volunteer with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She has maintained
her current 3.74 grade point average with multiple terms of an
‘overloading’ class schedule, while a member of the
U.S. National Team. Parsons has exemplified leadership for the Big
Green on the ice with younger players.
Parsons has seen action in 24 games for the Big Green. She missed
four games to play for Team USA at The Four Nations Cup in November
and has returned to pot 10 goals and add 10 assists for 20 points.
Parsons became the second member of this year's squad to 100 points
in a career with a goal against Union on Jan. 31. Five of her 10
goals have come on the power play, which puts her third on the team
in the category.
