NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – For a second straight academic year, the Merrimack College women's ice hockey team was at the top of Hockey East, as a league-high 19 Warriors earned All-Academic Team honors – with a league-high four of them boasting Top Scholar-Athlete status – to represent another incredible year in the classroom.
Juniors
Annie Boeckers, Madison Morey and
Paige Sorensen joined sophomore
Léa-Kristine Demers among the league's elite student-athletes in earning Top Scholar-Athlete status. They were four of the seven total student-athletes from four different schools earned the prestigious honor. Morey and Sorensen did so for the third straight year; Boeckers and Demers, meanwhile, grabbed their second such accolade.
They were four of a league-high 19 selections, marking the second straight season in which Merrimack led the league in all-academic picks. The team has had no fewer than 17 all-academic selections in its three years as a varsity program.
Classmates
Jessica Bonfe, Dominique Kremer, Katelyn Rae, Samantha Ridgewell, Paige Voight and Emily Volpe joined Boeckers, Morey and Sorensen as three-time honorees.
Among the second-time all-academic selections were junior
Jessica Kuhlman, as well as sophomores
Chloe Cook,
Mikyla Grant-Mentis and
Andrea Olson. Finally, all four members of the freshman class garnered the recognition on their first tries, with freshmen
Kate Bukolska, Maddy Burton, Megan Fergusson and
Courtney Maud, while junior
Felila Manu also was recognized for the first time.
Overall, Women's Hockey East saw a record 131 female student-athletes named to the league's 2017-18 All-Academic Team. Each student-athlete achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or better in each of the two academic periods during which she was actively competing.
In addition to their Hockey East accolades, the women's ice hockey program had another banner year on campus, boasting the top team cumulative grade point average (GPA) (3.711) for the second straight year.
