78 Bobcats named to NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team

Posted by: Andy Walter on May 31, 2012Tags: achievements, wins

Matt Bettles '13 is one of three Bates All-Americans from this season, along with Joan O'Neill '12 and Haley Sive '12, who also was selected NESCAC Spring All-Academic. (File photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen)

HADLEY, Mass. — Seventy-eight Bates College students from Bates’ spring sports teams have received 2012 NESCAC Spring All-Academic honors, announced today by the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

To be honored, a student-athlete must have reached sophomore academic standing and be a varsity letter winner with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.35. A transfer student must have completed one year of study at the institution. Beginning with the 2010-11 academic year, sophomores are eligible to receive recognition on the All-Academic team.

Among a plethora of standout athletes on Bates’ list is three All-Americans from the past season, in junior men’s tennis player Matt Bettles (Taunton, England), senior women’s lacrosse player Joan O’Neill (Westwood, Mass.) and senior women’s rower Haley Sive (Glenville, N.Y.).

A whopping 19 others received regional or all-conference athletic honors this season, including women’s track sophomore Abby Alexander (Harvard, Mass.), women’s track senior Lizzy Carleton (Westborough, Mass.), men’s track senior Ben Chebot (Newton, Mass.), men’s track senior Sean Colligan (Goffstown, N.H.), women’s track junior Lindsay Cullen (Newburyport, Mass.), women’s lacrosse senior Jenna Dannis (Dalton, N.H.), women’s rowing senior Allison DiSalvo (Lowell, Mass.), women’s lacrosse junior Linnea Fulton (Bristol, R.I.), men’s track senior Sam Goldstein (Memphis, Tenn.), men’s track junior Anthony Haeuser (South Portland, Maine), men’s track junior David Hardison (South Portland, Maine), women’s track senior Juliana Kirkland (Greene, Maine), softball senior Leah Maciejewski (Tewksbury, Mass.), men’s track sophomore Jarret McKallagat (Atkinson, N.H.), women’s track sophomore Kallie Nixon (Medfield, Mass.), women’s track senior Taylor Piers (Falmouth, Maine), women’s track junior Lisa Reedich (Harvard, Mass.), men’s track junior Ken Whitney (West Hartford, Conn.) and men’s track junior Andrew Wortham (Newton, Mass.).

Hardison and Nixon are two of the nine student-athletes from the 11 institutions in the NESCAC who completed the trifecta of being named All-NESCAC, NESCAC All-Sportsmanship and NESCAC All-Academic.

2012 NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team (PDF)

Below is Bates’ complete list of honorees: