Women's Team (pdf)
TROY, N.Y. – ECAC Hockey has announced its selections to the 2010 Women's All-Academic Team and 15 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athletes have been recognized, including the 2009-10 ECACH Student-Athlete of the Year and four-time All-Academic honoree,
Laura Gersten.
In addition to Gersten, selections from the women's team included
Amanda Castignetti,
Rossli Chace,
Katie Daniels,
Ashley Gaylord,
Laura Guillemette,
Alisa Harrison,
Kristen Jakubowski,
Whitney Naslund, Sydney O'Keefe,
Shannon Ramelot,
Sonja van der Bliek,
Jill Vandegrift,
Allysen Weidner and
Allison Wright.
Chace, Gersten, Naslund and Weidner were four-time selections to the All-Academic Team, while Gaylord, O'Keefe, van der Bliek and Wright were making their third appearance on the league's squad. Daniels, Guillemette and Jakubowski are two-time honorees.
As a team, the Engineers women produced the third most selections of any ECAC Hockey school. Harvard, which had 18 selections, led the league followed by Yale University and Dartmouth College, who each had 16 selections. Rensselaer was third with Colgate University and Princeton University coming in fourth with 12 selections apiece. St. Lawrence University and Union College each had 11 selections, followed by Quinnipiac University (9), Clarkson University (7), Cornell University (6) and Brown University (3).
The Rensselaer men's hockey team, which produced 17 selections, and the women's team combined to produce 32 honorees, falling just one short of Dartmouth, which had a combined 33 student-athletes named All-Academics.
Student-athletes are eligible for the All-Academic Team if they have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.00 on a 4.00 scale or have an average GPA of 3.00 over the past three semesters.
Under the direction of head coach
John Burke, Rensselaer posted a 16-15-6 overall record in 2009-10 with an 11-7-4 ECAC Hockey mark. RPI, which defeated Quinnipiac in a best-of-three quarterfinal series, advanced to its second straight appearance in the semifinals before falling to eventual conference champion and NCAA Runner-up, Cornell.
