Seahawks land 30 on Academic All-Conference Team

NEWPORT, R.I. - The Salve Regina football team landed a program-best 30 student-athletes on the 2014 New England Football Conference Academic All-Conference team.. 

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, 189 student-athletes have been honored by the NEFC with Salve Regina boasting 30 honorees, again reseting the mark for most in program history. The honorees make up 31 percent of the Salve Regina football roster. Massachusetts Institute of Technology led all schools with 50 honorees.

The list of Salve Regina student-athletes to earn a spot on the NEFC Academic All-Conference team includes:

Seniors (12): 
Benjamin Barrett (West Greenwich, R.I.)
Dan Buonocore (Mahwah, N.J.)
Jimmy Dee (Bethel, Conn.)
Garfield Douglas (Attleboro, Mass.)
Alex Hennessy (West Babylon, N.Y.)
Erik Klein (Springfield, Pa.)
Mat Lena (Trumbull, Conn.)
Rory McEntee (Wakefield, R.I.)
Frank Musco (Montvale, N.J.)
Troy Smith (Madison, Conn.)
Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.)
Matthew Traynor (Secaucus, N.J.)

Juniors (8): 
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.)
Zakary Rodriguez (Cameron, N.C.)
Derrick Sarfo-Darko (East Hartford, Conn.)

Sophomores (10):
Colin Burke (West Hartford, Conn)
Chris Caron (Northford, Conn.)
Noah Drake (Needham, Mass.)
Joey Farrar (Watertown, Mass.)
Kevin Johnston (Raynham, Mass.)
David Mavilia (Scituate, Mass.)
Michael Pagliarini (Wyoming, R.I.)
Garrett Rupe (Peckville, Pa.)
Juan Usuga (New Britain, Conn.)