Parsons Earns Academic All-District Second-Team Honors

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HANOVER, NH - Senior captain Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) added another postseason award to her resume as she was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Second Team on Thursday.

Parsons, who is also a two-time Academic All-Ivy recipient, earned a spot on the second team for the first time in her career. The economics major is set to graduate this coming June and will do so as one of the best student-athletes to ever put on a Dartmouth uniform.

In order to be nominated, athletes must be a starter or an important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. The selected student-athlete must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games and must have been enrolled for an entire calender year. The list of nominees consisted of over 85 women student-athletes from different sports around the region, excluding basketball, soccer, softball and track and field, as each of those sports have their own academic selections.

Parsons was a solid player at both ends of the ice for the Big Green during her four seasons in Hanover. She not only led Dartmouth in all offensive categories with 20 goals and 20 assists for 40 points, but was a great defensive player during her career as she was named a finalist for the best defensive forward in ECAC Hockey. Parsons became a force on the national stage as well and was a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the women’s college hockey player of the year.

She was named first team All-Ivy and ECAC Hockey Second Team. She finished the season leading ECAC Hockey with those 40 points and eighth in the nation in points per game (1.43). When her season ended she ranked fourth in the nation in assists per game (0.71), seventh in goals per game (0.71) and 13th in goals (20). She concluded the year ranked second in ECAC Hockey with 20 assists and fourth in power-play goals (6), while posting 13 multi-point games.

Parsons finished her career with 156 total points, which places her eighth all-time. The 66 goals she scored in her career made the top-10, while her 90 helpers are tied with Carly Haggard ’03 for seventh all-time.