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Maine Leads Hockey East With 16 All-Academic Team Selections
June 6, 2008
WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- The University of Maine men's ice hockey team led all Hockey East schools with 16 student-athletes named to the 2007-08 All-Academic Team, announced on June 6, 2008. In addition, junior Chris Hahn (Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan) was named one of three Hockey East Top Scholar-Athletes. Travis Ramsey (Lakewood, Calif.) was named a Hockey East Distinguished Scholar-Athlete, while Hahn and Tanner House (Cochrane, Alberta) both earned a spot on the Hockey East Academic All-Star Team. A total of 91 Hockey East student-athletes were named to the Honor Roll. Maine led all Hockey East schools with 16 student-athletes named to the All-Academic Team. The 16 student-athletes named to the team for Maine is an all-time high. It is six more than Maine finished with during the 2004-05 season when 10 student-athletes were honored. UMass Lowell finished behind the Black Bears in second place as the River Hawks had 13 student-athletes namd to the team, while UMass had 12 student-athletes honored. Merrimack and Vermont each placed 10 student-athletes on the all-academic team followed by Boston College (8), New Hampshire and Providence (7), Northeastern (5) and Boston University (3). Hahn along with New Hampshire's Brad Flaishans and UMass Lowell's Frank Stegnar were the first trio to be named Hockey East's Top Scholar-Athlete. It marks the first time in the 24-year history of the league that three student-athletes achieved a 4.00 GPA for the year. Ramsey was one of three student-athletes to be named a Hockey East "Distinguished Scholar". He was joined by Flaishans and Mike Kostka of UMass. The three earned a 3.0 or higher in each of semester over four varsity seasons. Hahn and rookie Tanner House were named to the Hockey East Academic All-Star Team which honors the top grade-point-averages by position. Maine was the lone school to have two players selected to the Academic All-Star Team.
Ramsey has been named to the Hockey East Academic Honor Roll four times. Hahn was named to the team for the third time in his career. Ben Bishop (Des Peres, Mo.) and Keenan Hopson (Prince George, British Columbia) were both honored for the second time in their careers. Glenn Belmore (Cornwall, Ontario), Brett Carriere (Ottawa, Ontario), Simon Danis-Pepin (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec), Robby Dee (Plymouth, Minn.), Jeff Dimmen (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Shane Foley (Clinton, N.Y.), House, Keif Orsini (Montreal, Quebec), Lem Randall (Snow Lake, Manitoba), Andrew Sweetland (Bonavista, Newfoundland), Josh VanDyk (Woodstock, Ontario) and Dave Wilson (Caledon East, Ontario) were all named to the team for the first time in their careers. To earn a spot on the Hockey East All-Academic Team, a student-athletes must post a 3.0 grade-point-average or higher in both of the academic semesters during the ice hockey season.
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