USP
Athletics
Press
Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17, 2008
Three
Devils Named to 2007 CACC Fall Academic Team
Bedway
becomes a Three-Time Selection
New Haven, Conn.– Three University of the Sciences in Philadelphia student-athletes were named to the 2007 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Fall All-Academic Team announced earlier today.
To qualify for the honor, recipients must have maintained at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average, participated in a fall CACC championship sport, and been at least a sophomore academically and athletically. The ten Devils were among 108 honorees in six sports from all 12 conference schools. Seven of the ten are repeat selections from last year’s team.
One of the three, women’s tennis player Amanda Bedway (Blue Mountain High School/ Orwigsburg, Pa.) was amongst 15 CACC student-athletes to be named to the CACC Fall Academic Team three times. Bedway also becomes the eighth USP student-athlete to become a three-time CACC All-Academic Team. Bedway, a senior on this year’s team, earned All-Conference honors by reaching the semi-finals of the CACC Individual Tournament in October of 2007. Amanda currently sports a 3.86 grade point average and is in her fourth year of USP’s Doctor of Pharmacy program.
Joining Bedway on the CACC Fall All-Academic Team were women’s cross country runner Sarah Verbyla (Wyoming Valley West High School/Larksville, Pa.) and men’s cross country runner Mark Cifelli (Watchung Hills Regional High School/Gillette, N.J.).
Cifelli, a junior on this year’s team, was one of 40 CACC student-athletes who became two-time All-Academic Team selections. The former Watchung Hills high School athlete currently sports a 3.81 grade point average and is in his third year of USP’s Doctor of Pharmacy program. Verbyla, a sophomore on the women’s cross country team, sports a 3.67 grade point average and is in her second year of USP’s Doctor of Pharmacy program. Verbyla is a first time honoree.
Since the CACC All-Academic program was instituted in the fall of 2005, a total of 36 different student athletes from the University of the Sciences have earned CACC All-Academic honors. Twenty-one of these 36 are repeat selections with eight of those earning conference All-Academic honors three times and one (Shelby Rance ‘09, women’s basketball/women’s cross country) earning All-Academic honors six times over the past three-plus years. (The first and one of only two CACC student-athletes to do so.)
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