Posted: Jan 23, 2014

26 Seahawks land on Academic All-Conference team

Highlighting the 26 NEFC Academic All-Conference selections was sophomore Michael McNamara with the highest cumulative GPA on the team.

NEWPORT, R.I. - The Salve Regina football team landed a program-best 26 student-athletes on the 2013 New England Football Conference Academic All-Conference team, as announced by the league's publicist Wednesday evening.

To qualify for the team a player must have completed three semesters at the same institution with a cumulative of 3.0 or better grade point average (based on a 4.0 scale). In total, 179 student-athletes have been honored by the NEFC with Salve Regina boasting 26 honorees, the most in program history. The honorees make up 31% of the Salve Regina football roster. Massachusetts Institute of Technology led all schools with 44 honorees.

Eight of the 25 Academic All-Conference honorees were previously selected to the NEFC All-Conference teams, including junior Dan Buonocore (Mahwah, N.J.), senior Joshua Burnett (Whitman, Mass.), sophomore Danny Ives (Madison, Conn.), senior Justin Johnson (Durham, Conn.), sophomore Alex Leddy (Warwick, R.I.), junior Rory McEntee (Wakefield, R.I.), junior Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.) and junior Matthew Traynor (Secaucus, N.J.).

The list of Salve Regina student-athletes to earn a spot on the NEFC Academic All-Conference team includes:
Seniors (7):
Joshua Burnett (Whitman, Mass.) #&
Dakota Cowell (Berkeley, Mass.)
Kyle Henrick (Salem, N.H.) #
Justin Johnson (Durham, Conn.) #&
Dan Parks (Nesconset, N.Y.) #
Robert Pruyn (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) #
Stephen Tomaselli (Franklin Square, N.Y.) @

Juniors (10):
Benjamin Barrett (West Greenwich, R.I.)
Dan Buonocore (Mahwah, N.J.) @&
Jimmy Dee (Bethel, Conn.)
Alex Hennessy (West Babylon, N.Y.) @
Erik Klein (Springfield, Pa.) @
Rory McEntee (Wakefield, R.I.) &
Frank Musco (Montvale, N.J.) @
Troy Smith (Madison, Conn.) @
Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.) @&
Matthew Traynor (Secaucus, N.J.) @&

Sophomores (9):
Christian Clark (Williamsport, Pa.)
Joe Cuccia (Brookfield, Conn.)
Kyle Hein (East Sandwich, Mass.)
Alex Hulme (Hopkinton, Mass.)
Danny Ives (Madison, Conn.) &
Alex Leddy (Warwick, R.I.) &
Michael McNamara (Goshen, Ind.)
Zak Rodriguez (Cameron, N.C.)
Derrick Sarfo-Darko (East Hartford, Conn.)

# - Three-time NEFC Academic All-Conference selection
@ - Two-time NEFC Academic All-Conference selection
& - 2013 NEFC All-Conference selection