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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2009

USP Athletes Named Academic Achievement Award Winners

Cleveland (OH) The Division II Athletics Directors Association (DII ADA) announced the 2008-09 recipients of the DII ADA Academic Achievement Awards presented by WeatherPORT. The Academic Achievement Awards is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level. Twenty-six student-athletes from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia were amongst the 4,020 athletes recognized from 115 Division II institutions by the NCAA Division II Athletic Directors Association (DII ADA).

In order to be recognized as an Academic Achievement Award recipient, the student athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale; have attended a minimum of two years (four semesters) of college level work and be an active member of an intercollegiate team during his/her last academic year.  The institution’s athletic director must also be a current dues paying member of the DII ADA.

The 26 USP student-athletes are also amongst 194 student-athletes from Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference schools that were honored.  USP’s 26 honorees was the second highest number of student athletes from a CACC school so honored, trailing only Philadelphia University’s 40 honorees.  The USP honorees represent ten of the 12 sports offered by the school.

USP’s 26 honorees are as follows:

Men’s Cross Country

 

Women’s Rifle

Marty Farrell, 2nd year (Pharmacy, 3.675)

 

Deborah Booth, 2nd year (Pharmacy, 3.706)

Tuynh Nguyen, 2nd year (Pharmacy, 3.745)

 

Katie Bubacz, 5th year (Pharmacy, 3.638)

Mark Cifelli, 4th year (Pharmacy (3.823)*

 

Danielle Grimaldi, 5th year (Pharmacy, 3.736)

     

Women’s Cross Country

 

Men’s Tennis

Jessica Kaminski, 2nd year (Pharmacy (3.967)

 

Ricardo Martins, 3rd year (Physical Therapy, 3.538)

Beth Crawford, 3rd year (Pharmacy, 3.533)

 

Daniel Rubin, 3rd year (Pharmacy, 3.623)

Sarah Verbyla, 3rd year (Pharmacy, 3.686)

   
   

Mixed Golf

Women’s Tennis

 

Tony Vanetesse, 2nd year (Microbiology, 3.748)

Bridget Frymoyer, 2nd year (Biology, 3.504)

 

Lauren Wallis, 4th year (Pharmacy, 3.515)

Jeanine DePasquale, 4th year (Pharmacy, 3.541)

   
   

Women’s Softball

Women’s Volleyball

 

Loren Martinez, 2nd year (Pharmacy, 3.673)

Christine Puschak, 2nd year (Pharmacy, 3.942)

 

Dayna Phillips, 2nd year (Biology/Pre-Med, 3.738)

Megan Wolfe, 4th year (Occupational Therapy, 3.609)

 

Erin Degnan, 3rd year (Pharmacy, 3.593)

   

Samantha Tu, 3rd year (Occupational Therapy, 3.522)

Mixed Rifle

 

Brittany Ebersole, 4th year (Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 3.891)

Jared Wasserman, 3rd year (Bioinformatics, 3.729)

 

Ashley Tobin, 4th year (Pharmacy, 3.643)

Raymond Janowski, 4th year (Biology, 3.692)

   
     

Women’s Basketball

  * also a member of the mixed rifle and mixed golf teams

Melissa Rotz, 3rd year (Pharmacy, 4.000)

   


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