LOWELL, Mass. – Twenty members of the UMass Lowell Hockey team have been named to the 2017-18 Hockey East All-Academic Team which was announced Thursday morning by the conference office.
UMass Lowell had the second largest number of players honored by the eleven school conference. The 20 student-athletes also reflects an increase from 19 a year ago and 13 in 2015-16.
"We have dedicated young men who exemplify what it is to be student athletes in college," said Head Coach
Norm Bazin. "This serves as further proof that someone can strive for excellence on the ice and in the classroom."
The River Hawk hockey team also earned the university's Bob Griffin Academic Award with the highest grade point average, 3.496, among men's teams.
Senior forward
Jake Kamrass (Atlanta, Ga.) was honored as a distinguished scholar after earning All-Academic status in all four of his varsity seasons.
One River Hawk, junior defenseman
Avni Berisha (Lake Ariel, Penn.), is making his third appearance on the All-Academic Team. There were eight second time honorees. That group included senior forward
John Edwardh (Calgary, Alta.), juniors goalie
Christoffer Hernberg (Espoo, Finland) and forwards
Connor Wilson (Calgary, Alta.) and
Nick Master (Broomall, Pa.) and Sophomores forward Kenney Hausinger (Anchorage, Alaska), forward
Ryan Lohin (Chadds Ford, Pa.), foward
Nick Marin (Shrewsbury, Mass.), and forward
Colin O'Neill (Odenton, Md.)
Those whose names appeared on the All-Academic Team for the first time included senior defenseman
Tommy Panico (Wall, N.J.), junior forward
Ryan Dmowski (East Lyme, Conn.), sophomores defenseman Mattias Goranson (Slottsbron, Sweden), and goalie
Tyler Wall (Leamington, Ont.) and freshmen defenseman
Anthony Baxter (Oakville, Ont.), defenseman
Croix Evingson (Anchorage, Alaska), forward
Charlie Levesque (Russell, Ont.), forward
Cole Paskus (Madison, Wis.), and forward
Connor Sodergren (Tewksbury, Mass.) and redshirt freshman
Chris Schutz (Keller, Texas).
The 20 are part of a group of 144 student-athletes who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or better in each of the two academic periods during the past season. Only one school, Merrimack, placed more players on the All-Academic Team.
