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Posted: Feb 14, 2024

Fawcett and Mulera named Joe Concannon Award Semifinalists

Fawcett and Mulera named Joe Concannon Award Semifinalists

NEWPORT, R.I.-- Matthew Fawcett (Lincoln, R.I.) and Johnny Mulera (Rockville, Md) from men's ice hockey have been named Joe Concannon Award semifinalists by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston.

The esteemed honor is presented annually to the best American-born NCAA Division II/III hockey player in New England.

Fawcett and Mulera represent Salve Regina among the list of 25 DIII institutions and 38 semifinalists. Semifinalists were selected from five conferences: the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC), the Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10), the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC), the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) and two independent teams. 

This is Mulera's second time as a finalist for the honor after he was named a semifinalist in 2023. 

The last student-athlete from a CCC institution to win the award was Endicott College's Connor O'Brien, co-winner with Babson College's Ryan Black, in 2022. 

The full release and list of semifinalists can be found here. 

The Joe Concannon Award:
The Gridiron Club established the Joe Concannon Award in 2001 to honor Joe, a lifelong devotee of college hockey, former member of the Walter Brown Award Selection Committee and, as a journalist, a staunch advocate for the amateur athletes he knew and covered. A native of Litchfield, Connecticut, Joe graduated from Boston University in 1961. He served as sports information director (SID) at Holy Cross before joining the Boston Globe in the late 1960's to cover college sports. Joe declined frequent invitations by his editors to write about Boston's major professional sports teams, preferring to concentrate on the colleges, distance running and golf. He authored the book Marathoning with Bill Rodgers and established the highly successful Litchfield Road Race in his hometown. Joe was a world traveler and was especially proud of his Irish heritage, frequently sojourning to the Emerald Isle. He passed away in 2000.