Men's Golf 6/17/2025 12:00:00 PM

Over Seventy Percent Of Spring Student-Athletes Named To The NEC Academic Honor Roll

LORETTO, Pa. – Saint Francis had 136 student-athletes named to the Northeast Conference (NEC) Spring Academic Honor Roll, announced by the league on Tuesday. The student-athletes named to the Academic Honor Roll had a 3.20-grade point average or better, and 64 registered a 3.75-grade point average or better to earn NEC Commissioner's Honor Roll status.

Women's golf and men's tennis had all their players named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll, while men's golf was at 92.8 percent, with one player on its roster missing the list. Women's outdoor track and field (83.7 percent), women's tennis (81.8 percent), and men's volleyball (80.9 percent) each registered at least 80 percent of its roster with a 3.2 grade-point average. Saint Francis had 71.5 percent (136 of 190) of its spring athletes named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll, and 47.0 percent of the student-athletes named to the Academic Honor Roll also placed on the NEC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

By the numbers, women's outdoor track and field had the most student-athletes named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll, with 31, followed by men's outdoor track and field (20), men's volleyball (17), men's golf (13), women's lacrosse (13), men's tennis (12), women's golf (10), and women's tennis (9).

Saint Francis also had two student-athletes named NEC Scholar-Athletes of the Year for the spring, with Olivia Ulam (Canonsburg, Pa.) taking home the award for softball and Andrew Deardorff (Itsaca, Ill.) earning the honors for men's volleyball. That brings this year's total to four after field hockey player Dolores Zavaleta (San Juan, Argentina) and women's volleyball player Korrin Burns (Clarion, Pa.) received NEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year recognition for their sports in the fall. It marks the 12th time in the 22 years the NEC has sponsored the awards that the Red Flash has posted four or more Scholar-Athletes of the year, joining 2003-04 (six), 2004-05 (five), 2005-06 (five), 2006-07 (six), 2009-10 (four), 2012-13 (six), 2016-17 (eight), 2017-18 (five) and 2023-24 (four).

Softball becomes the first Red Flash sport to win five scholar-athletes of the year in a row. Both men's outdoor track and field (2004-07) and women's indoor track and field (2007-10) ran four consecutive honors. The five scholar-athletes for softball rank fifth-most in school history behind men's outdoor track and field (nine), men's golf (seven), men's soccer (seven), women's basketball (six), while men's cross country (five), men's indoor track and field (five), women's outdoor track and field (five) and women's soccer (five) are also a member of the club with five players earning the recognition.

Saint Francis is the only NEC school to have earned an NEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year every year since the award's inception in 2003-04, winning 84 honors in that span.

For the 2024-25 academic year, Saint Francis had 379 NEC Academic Honor Roll honors and 160 Commissioner's Honor Roll selections through the three seasons (fall, winter, and spring).

NEC SPRING COMMISSIONER'S ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL (3.75 CUMULATIVE GPA OR BETTER)
Men's Golf (7): Lukas Cascino, Caleb DeBass, Ben Diskin, Alexander McClain, Trent Meyers, Tanner Mona, Alex Yong
Women's Golf (2): Camille Gagnon, Meghan Zambruno
Women's Lacrosse (5): Victoria DiRenno, Chyler Espino, Julia Givens, Makenna Patten, Colleen Roche
Softball (9): Madelynn Bates, Annabelle Farmer, Aliya Garroway, Olivia Kolowitz, Olivia Ulam, Hannah Bendle, AB Cipalla, Alyssa Pearce, Zoey Nussbaum
Men's Tennis (4): Alan Gonzalez, Matthew Kozar, Brian Reese, Kevin Suresh-Titus
Women's Tennis (3): Lindsey Greb, Sara Jankovic, Gretta Rhodes
Men's Track and Field (4): Dylan Andrews, Dugan Chase, Toby Cree, Ethan Stroup
Women's Track and Field (21): Jaelyn Cole, Nina Connors, Jordan Dean, Anna DeFazio, Ava Dzurenda, Emma Fleck, Taylor Foster, Rosemary Gaydos, Delaney Hall, Tesslyn Helms, Claire Henry, Mackenzie Hirt, Amy Jacobs, Madelyn Lersch, Morgan McNaughton, Anna Quackenbush, Catherine Pivarunas, Olivia Renk, Morgan Rothrock
Men's Volleyball (9): Luke Bockius, Joaquim Cariso, Kyle Charles, Jackson Decker, Cole Dorn, Brayden Gall, Michael Mosbacher, Deke Patton, Nathan Zini