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Spring Academic All-Ivy -- 2011-12
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League released its
list of student-athletes selected for 2011-12 Academic All-Ivy
honors in its spring sports today. The 80 men and women were
starters or key reserves on an officially recognized varsity team
with 3.0 or better cumulative grade point averages. Each
institution nominated five men and women from its eligible
student-athletes. The full list, alphabetically by institution,
follows.
Brown
Parker Brown, Sr., Men’s Lacrosse, Public
Policy & American Institutions (San Francisco)
Honorable Mention All-Ivy; co-captain; 113 career points,
including 63 career goals; led team with 40 points in 2012,
including a team-high 20 assists; NEILA Scholar-Athlete.
Allison Courtin, Sr., Women’s Rowing,
International Relations (Buffalo, N.Y.)
A two-time All-American and former national champion; served as a
captain this season while helping Brown to its 16th-straight NCAA
Championship appearance.
Alex Fleming, Sr., Men’s Rowing, Human
Biology (Melbourne, Australia)
Stroke for varsity eight boat that won an Ivy League Championship
and finished second in the country at the IRA National
Championship.
Julia Keller, Sr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Education Studies/Public Policy & American Institution
(Concord, Mass.)
Captain; two-year starter; finished with 23 points on 17 goals and
six assists, along with 16 groundballs, eight draw controls and 11
caused turnovers.
Misia Krasowski, Jr., Women’s Tennis,
International Relations (Deerfield, Ill.)
First-team All-Ivy (singles) at No. 1; also played No. 1 & No.
2 doubles; ranks in Brown's top 10 for career singles wins, doubles
wins and combined wins.
Dan Lowry, Sr., Men’s Track & Field,
Geology/Biology (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)
All-American in both cross country and track & field;
Second-Team All-Ivy in the 5,000m in 2012; holds school record in
5,000m; Brown’s Male Athlete of the Year.
Olivia Mickle, Jr., Women’s Track &
Field, Engineering (Sacramento, Calif.)
NCAA Qualifier; Earned team's Most Improved Award; set school
record in the 10,000m and is an Olympic Trials qualifier;
second-team All-Ivy in 10,000m.
Greg Silverberg, Sr., Men’s Rowing,
Engineering (Shrewsbury, Mass.)
The eight seat in the Bears’ varsity eight boat; helped
Brown to an Ivy League Championship, edging Harvard, before pushing
the Bears to a second-place finish nationally at the IRA
Championship.
Stephanie Thompson, Jr., Softball, Neuroscience
(Chino, Calif.)
Ranks second in the nation in batting average (.477) and shared
Ivy League Player of the Year honors; CoSIDA Capital One Academic
All-District.
Graham Tyler, Sr., Baseball, Applied
Math/Economics (Cranston, R.I.)
A two-time captain and four-year starter at shortstop; led team in
assists and sacrifices in 2012; finished with 22 runs, 13 doubles
and 19 RBI this season.
Columbia
Nicole Bartnik, Jr., Women’s Tennis,
Political Science (Brandenton, Fla.)
Ivy League Player of the Year; unanimous All-Ivy League first
team; undefeated in singles during Ivy play.
Nikki Bourassa, Jr., Women’s Rowing,
Environmental Biology (Pennsauken, N.J.)
All-region first team; C.R.A.S.H.-B collegiate champion; varsity
eight stalwart.
Sarah Chai, Sr., Women’s Archery, Sociology
(Irvine, Calif.)
All-East; won bronze medal in the recurve at the United States
Intercollegiate Archery Championships (USIAC); earned a spot on the
US collegiate national team.
Jon Eisen, Sr., Baseball, Economics/Political
Science (Nashville, Tenn.)
All-Ivy League first team; Blair Bat winner for highest batting
average in Ivy League play (.446).
John Gregorek, So., Men’s Track &
Field, History (Seekonk, Mass.)
Second-team All-Ivy League in 3,000m steeplechase; NCAA qualifier
in 3,000m steeplechase and 1,500m.
Kacie Johnson, Jr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Economics (Wilton, Conn.)
Unanimous All-Ivy League first team; Ivy League leader in total
points per game; led team in goals (41), assists (32) and points
(73).
Pat Lowery, Sr., Baseball, History (Oakdale,
Conn.)
First-team All-Ivy; led team in ERA (2.35) and strikeouts (46);
drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the 21st round of
the MLB Draft.
Harrison McFann, So., Men’s Track &
Field, Film Studies (Gahanna, Ohio)
Ivy League outdoor champion in 800m and 4 x 800m relay; reached
national semifinals of 800m.
Stephanie Ngai, Sr., Women’s Rowing,
History (Berkeley, Calif.)
Varsity eight coxswain; helped team achieve highest rank ever in
CRCA national poll.
Haig Schneiderman, Sr., Men’s Tennis,
Economics (New York)
All-Ivy League first team at No. 1 or No. 2 singles; 10-3 record
in doubles.
Cornell
Jon Chamberlain, Jr., Men’s Rowing,
Chemical Engineering (Newark, Del.)
Rowed second seat for team that finished fifth at the IRA national
championship.
Molly Glantz, Sr., Women’s Track &
Field, Policy Analysis & Management (Barrington, Ill.)
Won 400m at Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships;
first-team All-Ivy in the 400m; qualified for NCAA East
Regionals.
Taylor Goetzinger, Sr., Women’s Rowing,
Policy Analysis & Management (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.)
Cornell’s first-ever two-time CRCA All-American; second-team
All-Ivy.
Caroline “Cacki” Helmer, Sr.,
Women’s Lacrosse, Human Development (Manilus, N.Y.)
Second-team IWLCA All-America; first-team All-Ivy; two-time
captain; seventh in the nation in groundballs (3.06) and eighth in
caused turnovers (2.06).
Nick Huber, Sr., Men’s Track & Field,
Industrial & Labor Relations (Leopold, Ind.)
Second-team All-America in the decathlon; won Ivy League Outdoor
Heptagonal Decathlon title with school-record 7,632 points.
Venkat Iyer, So., Men’s Tennis, Natural
Resources (Bethesda, Md.)
Second-team All-Ivy; ranked in the top 100 in the country by the
ITA and seventh in the Northeast Region.
Roy Lang, Sr., Men’s Lacrosse, American
Studies & History (Mill Valley, Calif.)
Third-team All-America; first-team All-Ivy; finished with 22
points on 16 goals and six assists, while recording 23 groundballs
and seven caused turnovers.
Jessi Steinberg, Sr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Human Development (Suffern, N.Y.)
First-team All-Ivy; ranked third on school’s career goals
list; led team in points (65) and assists (21) and tied for team
lead in goals (44).
Shelly Tremaglio, Jr., Women’s Rowing,
History/French (Charlottesville, Va.)
Won NCAA Elite 89 Award for rowing; rowed as a member of the Spare
Pair at the 2012 NCAA Championship.
James Voter, Sr., Men’s Rowing, Urban &
Regional Studies (Dresher, Pa.)
Commodore of the heavyweight crew; won Cornell’s Ronald P.
Lynch Spirit Award.
Dartmouth
Hayley Daniell, Sr., Women’s Rowing, French
(Hopkinton, N.J.)
CRCA All-American; second-straight CRCA All-Region selection and
Scholar-Athlete honor; stroked women to sixth-place finish at Ivy
Championships.
Kip Dooley, Sr., Men’s Lacrosse, History
(Minneapolis, Minn.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy selection; Lowe's Senior CLASS
candidate; finished with 26 points on 13 goals and 13 assists this
spring.
Kat Hicks, Sr., Softball, Chemisty (Templeton,
Calif.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy selection; helped team to second-place
finish in Ivy's North Division; hit .263 with 12 doubles, second
most doubles at Dartmouth.
Jeff Keller, So., Baseball, Economics (Atherton,
Calif.)
CoSIDA Academic All-District I; honorable mention All-Ivy; tied
for fifth in the League with a .352 average.
Josh Konieczny, Jr., Men’s Rowing,
Economics (Milbury, Ohio)
Stroked lightweights to runner-up finishes at EARC Sprints and IRA
National Championship; team finished year ranked No. 2 in the
country.
Alexi Pappas, Sr., Women’s Track &
Field, English (Alameda, Calif.)
First-team All-America in 3,000m steeplechase by finishing third
at nationals; won steeplechase at Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal
Championships; USTFCCCA Academic All-Region.
Sarah Plumb, Sr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Government (Wellesley, Mass)
Ivy League Player of the Year; unanimous first-team All-Ivy;
first-team All-America; finished with 49 points on 37 goals and 12
assists; led Dartmouth to Ivy League championship title.
Connor Reilly, Jr., Men’s Track &
Field, Psychology (Niskayuna, N.Y.)
Team MVP and captain; set new school record in indoor 60 meters;
second-team All-Ivy in the 100m at the Ivy League Outdoor
Heptagonal Championships.
Peter Williamson, Sr., Men’s Golf, Studio
Art (Hanover, N.H.)
Became second player in League history to win Ivy title three
times; 2012 Ivy League Player of the Year; won three tournaments
and placed second in four others; tied for 5th at NCAA
Regional.
Molly Wilson, Jr., Women’s Sailing, Biology
(Rye, N.Y.)
Second-team All-NEISA; competed in A-Division at NEISA
Championships and ICSA National Championships, helping Dartmouth to
fifth-place finish at nationals.
Harvard
Jane Alexander, Sr., Softball, Psychology (Palo
Alto, Calif.)
2012 Ivy League Co-Player of the Year; earned CoSIDA Academic
All-America third-team honors; CoSIDA Academic All-District first
team.
Melanie Baskind, Sr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Neurobiology (Framingham, Mass.)
Named the IWLCA Div. I Scholar-Athlete of the Year; earned CoSIDA
Academic At-Large All-America first team and Capital One Academic
At-Large All-District first team honors; second-team All-Ivy.
Rachel Brown, Sr., Softball, Psychology (San
Diego)
Team captain; named Ivy League Pitcher of the Year for second year
in a row; received fourth-straight unanimous All-Ivy League
first-team honor.
Jill Carlson, Sr., Women’s Rowing, Classics
(Newton, Mass.)
First-team All-New England; first-team All-Ivy League; team
captain; coxswain of Radcliffe heavyweight varsity eight that won
the program’s first Ivy title since 2003.
Nicholas Gates, Jr., Men’s Rowing,
Chemistry (Ross, Calif.)
First-team All-Ivy League; five-seat of the Harvard lightweight
crew that won the national, Eastern and Ivy League titles and went
9-0 against dual competition.
Bonnie Hu, So., Women’s Golf, Economics
(Fremont, Calif.)
Won individual title at Ivy League Championships (77-73-75-225);
named to All-Ivy League first team.
Matt Jones, Sr., Men’s Volleyball, Applied
Mathematics (La Jolla, Calif.)
Became the all-time kills, digs and service aces leader for the
Crimson with 1,218 kills, 452 digs and 97 aces; earned first-team
All-EIVA honors; named to the EIVA All-Tournament Team.
Brendan Kopp, Sr., Men’s Sailing,
Government (Fairfield, Conn.)
First-team All-New England; All-America; led Harvard to New
England championship as top skipper and captain; team finished
fifth at nationals.
Tim Moore, Sr., Men’s Rowing, Social
Studies (Exeter, N.H.)
First-team All-Ivy League; six-seat of the Harvard lightweight
crew that won the national, Eastern and Ivy League titles and went
9-0 against dual competition.
Jonathan Pearlman, Sr., Men’s Tennis,
Economics (Palm Beach, Fla.)
Received first-team All-Ivy League honors for singles; played
exclusively at No. 1 for Harvard during senior season.
Penn
Erin Brennan, Sr., Women’s Lacrosse,
Wharton-Finance (Garden City, N.Y.)
Unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection; graduated as Penn’s
second-leading all-time scorer (213 points); had 60 points in 2012,
which is fourth on Penn's single-season list.
Matt Chylak, Jr., Men’s Track & Field,
English (Newtown, Pa.)
Five-time All-Region; two-time All-Ivy; member of school-record
4x800m relay team that claimed outdoor Ivy and IC4A titles in 2011;
ran second leg for 4x800m relay that finished third at 2012 Outdoor
IC4A Championships.
Samantha Erosa, Jr., Softball, Biology (Bronx,
N.Y.)
Team captain; second-team All-Ivy; one of three Penn players to
bat over .300 and score 20 runs; batted .345 in Ivy League play;
helped Penn to Ivy League South Division title.
P.J. Fielding, Jr., Men’s Golf, Political
Science (Brentwood, Calif.)
First-team All-Ivy with fourth-place finish at Ivy League
Championships; helped Penn win team title; Penn's low scorer at
three tournaments; 74.8 stroke average was second on team.
Jules Rodin, Jr., Women’s Tennis,
Biological Basis of Behavior (Philadelphia)
Team captain in 2011-12; first-team All-Ivy in doubles, where she
spent most of the year in the national rankings.
James Shovlin, Jr., Men’s Rowing,
Wharton-Accounting & Finance (Belle Mead, N.J.)
Occupied four seat for the varsity eight through much of 2012
season, then served as bow for the Red and Blue varsity eight at
Eastern Sprints.
Mitchell Stein, Jr., Men’s Rowing,
Wharton-Finance (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
Sat in the varsity 8 two seat for the Red and Blue at both EARC
Sprints and IRAs; V8 had best showing at Sprints since 2007, and
best finish at IRAs since 2001.
Victoria Strickland, Sr., Women’s Track
& Field, Health & Sciences (Chevy Chase, Md)
Two-time NCAA quarterfinalist and second-team All-Ivy; tops Penn
record book as member of 4x400m and sprint medley relays;
second-best outdoor 800m at Penn, third all-time in indoor
800m.
Jennifer Werkmeister, Sr., Women’s Rowing,
International Relations/East Asian Languages & Civilization
(Rio Rancho, N.M.)
First-team CRCA All-Region selection; rowed in varsity 8 all
spring; helped 1V8 win Orange Challenge Cup for second year in a
row for the first time since 1988-89.
Greg Zebrack, Sr. Baseball, Communication
(Northridge, Calif.)
First-team All-Ivy selection for second-straight season; hit .343
and led Penn in OBP (.448), home runs (7), runs (34) and RBI (28);
hit safely in 16-of-20 Ivy League games.
Princeton
Matt Bowman, Jr., Baseball, Economics (Chevy
Chase, Md.)
All-Ivy Honorable Mention at both pitcher and shortstop; batted
.308 with 26 runs, two doubles, one triple, one home run and 15
RBI; went 4-2 on the mound with 58 strikeouts.
Molly McBee, So., Women’s Water Polo,
Anthropology (Palos Verdes, Calif.)
CWPA All-Southern First Team; member of CWPA Southern Division and
Eastern championship teams; NCAA Championship participant.
Sam Mulroy, Sr., Baseball, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology (Bethesda, Md.)
First-team All-Ivy; team captain; led team in batting
average (.351), home runs (eight) and RBI (32).
Matija Pecotic, Jr., Men’s Tennis, Politics
(Sliema, Malta)
Ivy League Player of the Year; NCAA Qualifier in singles; two-time
Ivy League champion; undefeated in League play for the
second-straight year.
Kelly Pierce, Sr., Women’s Rowing, History
(Oakton, Va.)
First-team All-America; captain of NCAA Fourth-Place 1V.
Heidi Robbins, Jr., Women’s Rowing, Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology (Hanover, N.H.)
First-team All-America, stroke of NCAA Fourth-Place 1V.
Kelly Shon, So., Women’s Golf, Undeclared
(Port Washington, N.Y.)
NCAA Regional Individual Qualifier; second-team All-Ivy; finished
seventh at the Ivy League championship.
Jack Strabo, So., Men’s Lacrosse,
Undeclared (Arlington, Va.)
Started every game at shortstick defensive midfield for the 2012
Ivy League Champion; tallied four goals, one assist, 19 groundballs
and five caused turnovers.
Trevor Van Ackeren, Sr., Men’s Track &
Field, Sociology (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Second-team All-America in the 1,500m; Penn Relays Champion in the
DMR, Ivy runner-up in the outdoor 1,500m.
Tory Worthen, Jr., Women’s Track &
Field, Psychology (Holland, Pa.)
Ivy League Champion in the indoor and outdoor pole vault, NCAA
Regional Qualifier.
Yale
Erik Blumenkranz, Sr., Men’s Tennis,
Economics (Portola Valley, Calif.)
Team captain; played mostly in the No. 4 singles spot in the
spring; had a 13-10 doubles record.
Lily Boettcher, Sr., Women’s Golf, American
Studies (Tulso, Okla.)
Team captain; tied for 25th at the Ivy League Championship with a
255 (85-88-82).
Dara Dickson, Sr., Women’s Rowing,
Anthropology/Italian (Lafayette, Calif.)
Sat in the varsity eight for the third straight season; helped the
Bulldogs to a fourth-place finish at the Ivy League
Championship.
David Kahan, Sr., Men’s Rowing, Modern
Middle Eastern Studies (Arlington, Va.)
Helped the Yale varsity eight to a bronze medal at the IRA
National Championship.
Steph Kent, Sr., Women’s Tennis, Psychology
(Washington Depot, Conn.)
Captained the Bulldogs to the Ivy League title; went undefeated in
doubles in Ivy play.
Jonathan Martin, Sr., Men’s Rowing,
History/International Studies (Harpenden, England)
Sat in the varsity eight that finished 12th in the nation at the
IRA regatta.
Michael Pratt, Sr., Men’s Lacrosse,
Economics (Garden City, N.Y.)
Honorable mention All-Ivy; first team All-New England; team
captain; finished with seven goals, 52 groundballs and eight caused
turnovers.
Lindsey Raymond, Sr., Women’s Track &
Field, Economics (Acton, Mass.)
Earned All-East recognition; placed fourth in the 10,000m at the
Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships.
Eric Shultz, Sr., Baseball, Economics (Beverly
Hills, Calif.)
Went 5-2 with two saves, a 2.13 ERA and 29 strikeouts; led Yale
pitching staff in wins and appearances (25).
Virginia Waldrop, Sr., Softball, Humanities
(Houston)
Appeared in 42 games, starting 40; recorded two doubles, five RBI
and a career-high 11 runs.
