America East Release
Hartford Winter/Spring 2012 Honor Roll

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – The America East Conference announced on Thursday that 1,253 of its winter and spring student-athletes, which includes 115 Hartford student-athletes, were named to the Winter/Spring Honor Roll. Of the 114 Hawks honored, 61 were named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll for achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. The Hawks placed 61.5 percent of their winter and spring student-athletes on the honor roll.

The America East Honor Roll comes just a week after the University of Hartford student-athletes earned the America East Academic Cup for achieving the highest cumulative grade point average among student-athletes from America East institutions for the 2011-12 academic year. The Hawks posted a 3.16 GPA, beating the University of Vermont by one one-hundredth of a point. The honor marked the first Academic Cup for Hartford since 1996-97.

A total of nine Hartford squads were eligible for the Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll. Lacrosse led all nine teams with a total of 26 honor roll nods, 14 of which qualified for the Commissioner's Honor Roll. On the women's side, the track & field team posted the most honor roll members with 15 (seven on the Commissioner's Honor Roll) while the softball team boasts the most student-athletes named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll, eight, among the women's teams. A total of 12 softball players made the honor roll.

The baseball team placed 21 of its members on the honor roll, 11 of which earned Commissioner's Honor Roll status. Also on the men's side, basketball received 9 nods overall with four on the Commissioner's list. Men's tennis placed six on the honor roll and two on the Commissioner's Honor Roll while men's track & field boasts 12 honor roll members and six Commissioner's Honor Roll honorees. Women's basketball picked up nine honor roll nods with five achieving the Commissioner's Honor Roll while each of the four women's tennis players honored achieved Commissioner's Honor Roll status.

A total of 12 Hawk student-athletes found their way onto the America East All-Academic teams for their respective sports. Alex Hall earned the honor for women's basketball while Andrew Chalmers and Andrew Dwyer from men's indoor track & field earned selections following the winter season. The baseball team's James Alfonso, Brian Hunter and Simon Kudernatsch, lacrosse's Ryan Compitello, Aidan Genik and Steven Groccia, softball's Amber Andrews and Kate Wacyk and men's tennis player Aneil Bhalla were named to their respective All-Academic teams in the spring.

In addition to the honor roll, the America East also announced that the cumulative Academic Progress Rate of the conference ranked third among all Division I conferences, according to information released by the NCAA Wednesday. The America East's APR of 984 represents a five-point improvement from a year ago. The conference's APR has stayed even or improved in each academic year since 2004-05.  

The America East is proud to have one of the most comprehensive academic awards programs in the country. In addition to the honor roll, an All-Academic team comprised of student-athletes that excel both academically and athletically is chosen in each of the conference's 20 sports by a committee consisting of faculty athletic representatives, academic advisors and sports information directors. Additionally, a scholar-athlete, someone who distinguishes his/herself as the top student-athlete in his/her sport, is awarded. From that group, one male and one female is selected the America East Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Finally, the Academic Cup is awarded to the school with the highest cumulative GPA among its student-athletes for that academic year.