Wake Forest Athletics
Six Deacons Named To All-ACC Academic Team
2/13/2007 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Feb. 13, 2007
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Six Wake Forest Demon Deacons, including three first team All-ACC selections, were named to the All-ACC Academic Field Hockey Team, announced Tuesday by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
The Wake Forest contingent includes seniors Lauren Crandall, Jamie Whitten and Kristi Harshman, sophomores Minou Gimbrere and Christine Suggs, and freshman Aileen Davis.
Crandall, Harshman and Whitten are all repeat selections, named to the 2005 team. Crandall, Suggs and Whitten were all previously named first team All-ACC.
Wake Forest, the 2006 ACC champion, finished the season with a 22-2 record. The Deacons advanced to the national semifinals for the seventh straight year before falling to Maryland in the national championship game.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.
Duke led all schools with seven selections on the All-Academic Team for the second year in a row. NCAA champion Maryland and national runner-up Wake Forest notched six apiece, while Virginia collected five picks. Boston College and North Carolina rounded out the 31-member team with four and three nods, respectively.
The ACC also had numerous student-athletes garner national accolades in 2006, as 20 members received citations for All-America, All-Region or both by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. In addition, Maryland's Infante was a recipient of the Honda Award for the second straight year, earning the distinction as the nation's most outstanding field hockey player after leading Maryland to back-to-back NCAA field hockey championship titles for the first time in school history.
2006 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Field Hockey Team
Name School Year Pos Major
*Julia Berkowitz Boston College Jr. GK Political Science
!Katherine Blair Virginia Grad. GK Educational Psychology
Katherine Bounds Virginia Jr. B English Language and Literature
Biffy Cornelison Virginia Grad. B/M Education
*!Lauren Crandall Wake Forest Sr. M Communications
Aileen Davis Wake Forest Fr. M/B Undeclared
*!Bob Dirks Boston College So. F General Management
*!Kristina Edmonds Maryland Sr. B Kinesiology
Riley Foster North Carolina Fr. B Nursing
Caitlin Gillen Boston College Sr. F Nursing
Minou Gimbrere Wake Forest So. F Undeclared
!Kristi Harshman Wake Forest Sr. F Sociology
*Paula Infante Maryland Sr. MF Physical Education
!Heather Kendell North Carolina Sr. F/M Exercise Sports & Sciences
*!Mia Link Virginia Sr. M Biomedical Engineering
*!Hilary Linton Duke Sr. M Biology
!Cara-Lynn Lopresti Duke Sr. F Sociology
!Shayna McGeehan Duke Jr. D Psychology
Brianna O'Donnell North Carolina So. GK Journalism
Katie Quaglia Boston College So. M Undecided
Traci Ragukas Virginia Fr. M Undeclared
Ameliet Rischen Maryland Fr. F/M Biological Sciences
Berber Rischen Maryland Grad. M Business Management
*!Amy Stopford Duke Sr. M Earth and Ocean Sciences
*!Laura Suchoski Duke So. M Undeclared
*Christine Suggs Wake Forest So. F/M Undeclared
Amie Survilla Duke Fr. F Undeclared
Emily Trycinski Maryland Sr. F Kinesiology
*!Jamie Whitten Wake Forest Sr. B Undeclared
Caitlin Williams Duke Jr. GK Psychology
Kimberly Ziegler Maryland Jr. F Engineering Biology
!Repeat All-ACC Academic honorees
*All-ACC performer
