SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The Western New England University Athletics Department has announced that 25 student-athletes representing 15 Golden Bears' sports will be inducted to the Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The ceremony will be held in Dining Room B of the St. Germain Campus Center.
Chi Alpha Sigma is the first national scholar-athlete society to honor those collegiate student-athletes who have excelled in both the classroom and in athletic competition. Chi Alpha Sigma recognizes college students who receive a varsity letter in their sport while maintaining a 3.4 or higher cumulative grade-point average throughout their junior and senior years.
The governing board represents all levels of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Its purposes are as follows:
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To encourage and reward high academic scholarship of college athletes at four-year accredited colleges and universities;
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To recognize outstanding academic achievement by intercollegiate varsity letter winners;
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To encourage good citizenship, moral character, and friendship among the high academic achievers in college athletics;
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To recognize and honor the individual athlete, his/her team, sport, athletic department, and college or university;
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To mentor and to provide leadership to other athletes.
Membership in local chapters is an honor bestowed upon selected student-athletes. Selection for membership is by an athletic department designee in consultation with the individual's head coach and is based on outstanding scholarship, earned athletic letter winner, and excellent character and citizenship.
The 2012-13 class of Western New England Chi Alpha Sigma inductees includes (with name, class, sport(s) and major):
Gillian Adams, Senior, Women's Tennis, Psychology
Tom Booth, Senior, Baseball, Finance
Danielle Caron, Senior, Women's Swimming, Marketing
Jesse DeLucca, Junior, Men's Lacrosse, Mechanical Engineering
Katie Eckert, Junior, Women's Basketball/Softball, Elementary Education-Psychology
Rob Garlick, Junior, Wrestling, Accounting and Finance
Adam Knapton, Senior, Men's Lacrosse, Sport Management
Hannah Laviolette, Senior, Women's Cross Country, Elementary Education-Psychology
Alysha Lesieur, Senior, Women's Tennis, Forensic Biology
Carla Lynch, Senior, Women's Swimming, English-Creative Writing
Laura Madaio, Senior, Field Hockey/Softball, Sport Management
Jennifer Mears, Senior, Women's Volleyball, Marketing-Communication/Advertising
Ryan Mickiewicz, Junior, Men's Basketball, Finance
Dan Monahan, Junior, Ice Hockey, Finance
Linda Mustafa, Senior, Women's Tennis, Pharmacy
Kevin Parma, Junior, Men's Soccer, Accounting and Finance
Ali Pepe, Senior, Women's Lacrosse, Psychology
Taylor Perun, Senior, Baseball, Finance
Maureen Pollet, Junior, Women's Volleyball, Elementary Education-Psychology
Brian Prost, Junior, Ice Hockey, Accounting
Jeff Richardson, Senior, Baseball, Finance
Jillian Saley, Senior, Women's Lacrosse, Marketing-Communication/Advertising
Matt Sherry, Junior, Men's Cross Country, Electrical Engineering
Shelby Van Huysen, Senior, Field Hockey/Women's Basketball, General Biology
Kevin Wilkes, Junior, Men's Basketball, Mechanical Engineering-Green Energy Concentration
Western New England is one of 187 colleges and universities from 40 states that hold membership in the National College Athlete Honor Society (NCAHS) which governs the
Chi Alpha Sigma program.
