TROY, N.Y. - The 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Men's Soccer teams have been announced and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Sean Fleury has been selected to the Second Team.

Fleury, a native of Princeton, Mass., is a biomedical engineering major with a minor in management. An Academic All-District First Team selection, he has a 3.78 cumulative grade point average. A forward, Fleury played in 17 of the team's 19 games, recording a team-best eight assists and three goals for 14 points. He took 26 shots, including 12 on goal. He finished second in the Liberty League in assists and third in assists per game (0.47).

A graduate of Wachusett Regional High School, Fleury scored seven goals and picked up 12 assists in 61 career games. During his tenure at Rensselaer, Fleury helped the Rensselaer to the 2009 Liberty League regular season title, the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Tournaments, the 2007 ECAC Championship title and wins at the Red Hawk Classic in 2006 and 2008 and the 2008 Union Classic.

Fleury, who has been a Dean's List and Liberty League All-Academic selection multiple times, is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society and Rensselaer's Biomedical Engineering Society. He served a co-op at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, interned with Harvard-MIT HST Summer Institute in Biomedical Optics and is a volunteer at UMass Memorial Hospital. In addition to working on publishing four papers, he is a Founders Award of Excellence and William Hernstadt Patroon Award recipient.

In order to be eligible for academic honors, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). He must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his current institution and must have completed at least one full academic year at their current institution.

Rensselaer, which won the Liberty League regular season title, concluded its season with a 14-3-2 record and a 5-1-1 mark. The Engineers received an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season, claiming a first round victory before bowing out in the second round.