ALBANY – The College of Saint Rose is represented by five student-athletes on a pair of Northeast-10 Conference All-Academic Teams in recognition of outstanding athletic and academic achievement from this past fall season. The teams were voted on by a contingent of administrators within the conference.
Sophomore setter
Theresa Staulo was named to the NE-10 women’s volleyball All-Academic squad; while junior defenders
Kelly Guerin,
Katie Whiting and
Coco Ebersole were named to the conference’s women’s soccer All-Academic squad, along with sophomore midfielder
Christina Cuffari.
A 2009 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA District 1 third-team Academic All-American®, Staulo owns a 3.98 (4.00 scale) grade-point-average as a psychology major. She finished 10th among the league leaders with 8.04 assists per-game this past season. Staulo also averaged 0.96 digs and 0.51 blocks for the Golden Knights.
Guerin, Whiting, and Ebersole played a key role for a Saint Rose defensive unit that allowed a mere nine goals and recorded 18 shutouts on the way to a 24-1 record and a second straight NCAA Tournament national semifinal appearance. The Golden Knights wound up third in the nation with a 0.357 team goals-against-average and finished fourth behind a 0.72 shutout percentage.
Guerin carries a 3.91 GPA as a biology major and was honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) as both a first-team All-American and Scholar All-American to go along with numerous other accolades.
Whiting, a communication sciences and disorders major, owns a 3.51 GPA and joined Guerin as both an NSCAA/Adidas first-team All-American and Scholar All-American selection. She was furthermore chosen as the Most Outstanding Player of the NE-10 Tournament as Saint Rose became only the third team in league history (1981) to win three consecutive postseason conference titles.
Ebersole meanwhile boasts a 3.71 GPA as a biology major. She was an ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA District 1 second-team Academic All-American® and an NSCAA/Adidas first-team Scholar All-East honoree.
Cuffari figured prominently in a balanced Saint Rose attack that featured 18 different players who appeared in the scoring column throughout the team’s historic 2009 campaign. A business administration major with a 3.70 GPA, Cuffari finished with 10 points behind three goals and four assists on the way to being honored as an ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA District 1 third-team Academic All-American®.
In order to be nominated as an NE-10 All-Academic candidate, a student-athlete must be a starter or prominent reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA (4.00 scale) in both undergraduate and graduate work. She/he must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at her/his institution and must have completed at least one full academic year at her/his school. Nominated athletes must have additionally appeared in at least 50.0 percent of her/his team’s games in the position listed on the nomination form.