{"id":114632,"date":"2016-07-29T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=114632"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:54:38","slug":"huskies-named-hockey-east-all-academic-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/07\/huskies-named-hockey-east-all-academic-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Huskies Named to Hockey East All-Academic Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UConn men’s and women’s hockey teams placed 23 student-athletes on the Hockey East All-Academic teams for the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n

Hockey East announced that 12 men and 11 women were among the student-athletes named. Each student-athlete achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or better in\u00a0each of the two academic periods during which he or she was actively competing.<\/p>\n

Two-time honoree Annie Belanger<\/a> (Sherbrooke, Quebec) was among a select group to earn recognition as one of Hockey East\u2019s Top Scholar Athletes by boasting a 4.0 GPA for the season. Belanger\u2019s perfect 4.0 GPA earned her the goaltender spot on the 2015-16 Hockey East Academic All-Star Team.<\/p>\n

Other women named to the team:<\/p>\n

Three Husky standouts grabbed all-academic honors for a fourth year: Elaine Chuli<\/a> (Waterford, Ont.), Caitlin Hewes<\/a> (Stillwater, Minn.), and Margaret Zimmer<\/a> (St. Charles, Ill.) each became four-time honorees after receiving their degrees from UConn in May. Fellow graduates Leah Buress<\/a> (Windsor, Ont.) and Cassandra Opela<\/a> (Penfield, N.Y.) also received the recognition and were both first-time honorees.<\/p>\n

Rising senior Lexi Lersch<\/a> (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) became a three-time all-academic honoree, while Belanger and Lindsey Roethke (Buffalo, Minn.) took home the accolade for the second consecutive season, after both earned the honor as freshmen in the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n

Two UConn freshmen, Jaime Fox<\/a> (Unionville, Ont.) and Nora Maclaine<\/a> (Easton, Mass.), picked up the honor after just their first season with the Huskies, along with Leah Lum<\/a> (Richmond, B.C.), who was a first-time honoree as a sophomore.<\/p>\n

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UConn’s ice hockey teams excelled academically as well as on the ice. (Athletic Communications\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Men named to the team:<\/p>\n

Program graduates Kyle Huson<\/a> (Parker, Colo.) and Joey Ferriss<\/a> (Novi, Mich.) led the UConn contingent earning Hockey East honors for the second-straight season. The two claimed academic accolades all four years in Storrs, having collected Atlantic Hockey All-Academic honors after their freshman and sophomore seasons as well.<\/p>\n

Fellow graduates Patrick Kirtland<\/a> (Rocky Hill, Conn.) and Shawn Pauly<\/a> (Bellingham, Wash.) were also named to this year’s team.\u00a0 For Pauly, it was his third-straight season garnering all-academic honors.<\/p>\n

Picking up Hockey East honors for the second-straight season were rising juniors Johnny Austin<\/a> (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Spencer Naas<\/a> (Minnetonka, Minn.), Kasperi Ojantakanen<\/a> (Helsinki, Finland), Steve Thulin<\/a> (North Reading, Mass.), and Jeff Wight<\/a> (Coquitlam, British Columbia).<\/p>\n

Rising senior Joona Kunnas<\/a> (Vantaa, Finland), rising junior Jesse Schwartz<\/a> (Toronto, Ontario), and rising sophomore Karl El-Mir<\/a> (Montreal, Quebec) were all first-time honorees on the HEA All-Academic squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among those honored, women’s ice hockey player Annie Belanger boasted a perfect 4.0 GPA for the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":114852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,156,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-114632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-profile","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:09:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115057,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114632\/revisions\/115057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/114852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114632"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=114632"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=114632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}