Feb. 16, 2011
NE-10 Fall 2010 Academic All-Conference Teams
Seniors Angus MacDonald (Methuen, Mass.) and Brianne Bozzella (Wilmington, Mass.) led five UMass Lowell student-athletes named to the Northeast-10 Conference Fall All-Academic teams, released Tuesday.
MacDonald, a men’s cross country standout, and Bozzella, leading scorer of the women’s soccer team, joined senior field hockey standouts Liz Day (North Andover, Mass.), Jaime Hadley (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Lizzy Ales (Arlington, Mass.) on the all-academic teams.
The honor marked the second straight year that MacDonald and Bozzella were cited while Day, Hadley and Ales were each first-time recipients.
The NE-10 All-Academic Teams honor student-athletes – of sophomore eligibility and higher – who have maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.30 while displaying outstanding achievement on the playing field. The teams were voted upon by a committee of athletic administrators and faculty athletic representatives.
In another stellar year for the men’s cross country team, MacDonald earned All-American status for the second straight year as he placed 36th overall and 34th among scoring runners and helped lead the River Hawks to 13th place.
Additionally, MacDonald was named to the NCAA All-East Region Team for the third straight year after placing third in a field of 186 runners and helping UMass Lowell to its fifth straight East Region title.
Two weeks earlier, he helped guide the River Hawks to their fourth Northeast-10 Conference title in five years by placing third individually (among 151 runners).
A mathematics major, MacDonald has maintained a 3.49 cumulative grade point average.
Bozzella emerged as UMass Lowell’s leading goal scorer this season with seven goals and four assists (18 points) and was named to both the NE-10 All-Conference Second Team and to the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Soccer Association (NEWISA) Senior Bowl.
Over the last four years, she helped lead the women’s soccer program to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2007 and 2009 as well as NE-10 Tournament bids all four years. UMass Lowell posted an 8-8-2 overall record and an 8-7 clip (tied for sixth) in 2010.
An exercise physiology major, Bozzella has maintained a 3.92 cumulative average, and was one of three UMass Lowell student-athletes to earn a 4.0 in the fall 2010.
Day, Hadley and Ales wrapped their collegiate careers in the grandest fashion when UMass Lowell captured the NCAA Championship with a 1-0 triumph over Shippensburg University in Louisville, Ky., the crescendo of a 24-0 season.
The national title was UMass Lowell’s second in six years. The River Hawks also won both the NE-10 regular season championship (fourth in six years) and tournament title (sixth in eight years).
Day, who scored the game-winner in the NCAA title game, enjoyed a season for the ages as she was named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-America First Team, as well as the NFHCA Division II North Region Player of the Year. Additionally, she was named the NE-10 Player of the Year and a First Team standout as she compiled 14 goals and 14 assists.
A criminal justice major, Day has maintained a 3.30 cumulative average.
Hadley was named to the NFHCA All-America Second Team as well as the NE-10 First Team and compiled two goals and 11 assists this season. A health education major, she has maintained a 3.36 cumulative average.
Ales, a nursing major with a 3.65 average, compiled 10 goals and one assist this season. The honor is the latest of many academic plaudits for Ales, who has been cited to the NFHCA Division II National Academic Squad (the 2010-11 team to be announced later in the month) her freshman through junior years.
