Dec. 15, 2008

NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has placed 26 student-athletes on the second annual Little East Conference Fall All-Academic Team.

The team includes student-athletes who competed on teams in the fall, and were sophomores or better with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better. The team included student-athletes in the fall sports sponsored by the LEC: field hockey, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball. Eleven student-athletes repeated as members of the team this season,

"UMass Dartmouth student-athletes have shown that not only can they improve their performance in uniform, but also in the classroom," said UMass Dartmouth Director of Athletics Ian Day. "I am very proud of all of the success our students have shown this Fall.

FALL 2007 LITTLE EAST ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM-UMASS DARTMOUTH Field Hockey Jackie Anderson, Sophomore (Mechanical Engineering)-Medway, MA/Medway HS Kim Crosby, Junior (Accounting)-Mashpee, MA/Mashpee HS (UMass Lowell) Kate Dorrance, Sophomore (Visual Design)-Rehoboth, MA/Dighton-Rehoboth HS Becca Festinger, Sophomore (Social Science)-Greenfield, MA/Greenfield GS Connie Jones, Senior (Visual Design) - Springfield, MA/Somers (CT) HS Erin Langan, Senior (Biology) - Townsend, MA/North Middlesex HS Rebecca Stephens, Senior (Biology) - North Andover, MA/North Andover HS

Men's Cross Country Tyler Buck, Senior (History) - Valley Center, CA/Valley Center HS Eric Holmes, Graduate (Physics) - Abington, MA/Abington HS Matt Lemanski, Junior (Computer Science) - East Longmeadow, MA/East Longmeadow HS Tim Whelan, Junior (Accounting) - Abington, MA/Abington HS

Women's Cross Country Jess Carpenter, Junior (Chemistry)-Rutland, MA/Wachusett Regional HS

Men's Soccer

Byron Andrade, Junior (Accounting)-Brockton, MA/Brockton HS Giuliano Basile, Sophomore (Mechanical Engineering)-East Longmeadow, MA/East Longmeadow HS Alex Bettencourt, Junior (Operations Management) - New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS Jarred Goldstein, Junior (Marketing)-Weymouth, MA/Weymouth HS (UMass Lowell) Women's Soccer

Michaela Blackham, Sophomore (Visual Design)- Weymouth, MA/Weymouth HS Kelsey Boothby, Junior (Human Resource Management)-Holbrook, MA/Holbrook HS Allison Carver, Junior (English)-Andover, MA/Andover HS Sarah Killingbeck, Senior (Finance)-Norton, MA/Norton HS Cristal Peixoto, Sophomore (Finance)-Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS

Women's Tennis

Becky Bullock, Senior (Accounting)-Wrentham, MA/King Phillip Regional HS Allison DeAngelis, Senior (Visual Design)-Milford, MA/Milford HS Amber Ubertini, Sophomore (Business Administration)-Dalton, MA/Wahconah HS

Volleyball Lauren Lombardi, Sophomore (Biology)-Milford, MA/Milford HS Hilary Teichert, Senior (Psychology)-Pocasset, MA/Bourne HS Eleni Tsaparakis, Sophomore (Visual Design)-Norwalk, CT/Norwalk HS