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Pioneers Land 50 on Spring NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team

May 14, 2019

WESTWOOD, Mass. - Upon the conclusion of the spring season, the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) named their selections for the 201 All-Academic Team. This honor recognizes student-athletes for their successes inside the classroom.

A total of 50 Pioneer athletes were recognized in each of Smith's five spring sports. Track & Field Cross led the way with 16 athletes receiving the honor. Selections were also chosen from rowing (13), lacrosse (11), softball (7), and tennis (3).

Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2018 spring semester, achieved second year academic status at their institution, and been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.

 

Name Year Major
Lacrosse
Emily Biggs (Florence, Mass./Northampton) Senior History
Kaitlin Chiu (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto) Sophomore Anthropology
Katie Christensen (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme) Senior Studio Art
Abby Edwards (New York, N.Y./Stuyvesant) Junior Race, Health, and Society
Clelie Fielding (Francestown, N.H./High Mowing) Senior Architecture and Urbanism
Liz Lee (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) Sophomore Biology/Film
Shannon McGinnis (Levittown, Pa./The George School) Sophomore Biology
Maddie Ryan (Scituate, Mass./Scituate) Junior Biology
Nat Schad (Madison, Wis./Verona Area) Junior Environmental Science
Mercedes Woolley (Waitsfield, Vt./Harwood Union) Sophomore Psychology
Anna Wysocki (Hoosick Falls, N.Y./Hoosick Falls) Junior Government
Rowing
Haleigh Anderson (Riverside, Calif./Martin Luther King) Senior Environmental Science/Spanish
Rowena Balasubramani (Portland, Ore./Ulysses S. Grant) Sophomore Government/Computer Science
Kennedy Barber-Fraser (Newburgh, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) Senior History
Anna Freund (Portland, Maine/Portland) Junior Chemistry
Amy Hagen (Owings, Md./Northern) Sophomore Geosciences
Emily Mallard (Landgrove, Vt./Stratton Mountain School) Sophomore Psychology
Cara Meyer (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) Sophomore Government
Taegan Mullane (Chapel Hill, N.C./University of North Carolina School of the Arts) Sophomore Government/Economics
Cali Nathanson (Newtown, Conn./Wooster School) Junior Russian Studies and Religion
Amelia Olsen (Brooklyn, N.Y./Fiorello H. LaGuardia School) Sophomore Conservation Biology and Geosciences
Clara Slesar (Burlington, Vt./Lake Champlain Waldorf) Junior Conservation Biology
Arianna Tidball (Lincoln, Neb./Cita Hati Senior) Sophomore Biochemistry
Helena Wiatrowski (Winchester, Mass./Winchester) Junior Biology/Sociology
Softball
Lydia DeAngelo (Portsmouth, R.I./Moses Brown) Senior Biochemistry
Tyler Feeney (Merrimac, Mass./Pentucket Regional) Senior Engineering
Jess Flohr Senior Government
Stephanie Konas (Glenmont, N.Y./Bethlehem Central) Junior Biological Sciences
Megan McGrath (Wayne, Pa./Radnor) Junior Engineering Science
Alyssa Pioggia (East Longmeadow/East Longmeadow) Senior Biological Sciences
Katie Wingrove (Sunnyvale, Calif./Fremont) Junior English Language and Literature
Tennis
Joanna Kim (Chicago, Ill./Northside College Prep) Senior Neuroscience
Rachel LaFlamme (Chicopee, Mass./Cathedral)     Senior Statistical and Data Sciences
Yena Li (Shenzhen, China/Stoneleigh-Burnham School) Sophomore Psychology
Track & Field
Rumbila Abdullahi (Springfield, Mass./Central) Sophomore Chemistry
Camille Butterfield (Mamaronek, N.Y./Hackley School) Sophomore Studio Art
Molly Day (Watertown, Mass./Watertown) Senior Engineering Science
Yacine Fall Sophomore Biochemistry
Karena Garcia (Tucson, Ariz./Flowing Wells) Sophomore Engineering Science
Dayln Gillentine (Austin, Tex./LASA) Sophomore Mathematics
Aleice Goodman (Eleutheru, The Bahamas/Lawrence Academy) Senior Biological Sciences
Avery Hammond (Concord, Mass./Concord Carlisle) Sophomore Environmental Science and Policy
Patricia Jewell (Springfield, N.H./Kearsarge Regional) Junior English Language and Literature
Bettina Lee (Pasadena, Calif./La Salle College Prepatory) Junior Government
Haley Markos (Dover, N.H./Dover) Junior Engineering Science
Cassie Naranjo (Santa Clarita, Calif./Phillips Academy) Senior Biological Sciences
Maggie Prentice (Deerfield, N.H./Concord) Sophomore Biological Sciences
Ella Prince (Brooklyn, N.Y./Bard High School Early College) Sophomore Engineering Science
Sarah Stapleton (East Greenbush, N.Y./Done Stuart School)     Sophomore Psychology
Wasila Yussif (Ghana/KNUST Senior) Sophomore Engineering Science


The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference consists of 11 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S Coast Guard Academy, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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