Northeast-10 Announces Second Annual Fall

Sportsmanship Award Recipients



Thursday, December 6, 2007

For Immediate Release:

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South Easton, Mass. – The Northeast-10 Conference has announced the recipients of its second annual Fall 2007 Sportsmanship Awards. The awards program, which honors one team from each of the conference’s 23 championship sports that has exemplified the spirit of sportsmanship and generally conducted themselves with a higher degree of integrity, character and class. The awards were decided upon by a vote of each of the conference’s teams head coach, team captain and Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative in their respective sports.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell topped other Northeast-10 Institutions with a record four Fall Sportsmanship awards. The River Hawks received honors in Men’s Golf, Women’s Cross Country, Volleyball and shared the award for Field Hockey with American International College.

Saint Anselm College received the Sportsmanship Award in the sport of Football and Bryant University was awarded the Sportsmanship Award for Men’s Cross Country. Stonehill College was the recipient of the Men’s Soccer Sportsmanship Award, while Le Moyne College was garnered with the Sportsmanship Award in Women’s Soccer.

The Northeast-10 awards one team from its 23 championship sports with a ‘Team Sportsmanship Award’ at the end of each season’s championship segment.

In June, one of the 15 conference institutions will receive the ‘David R. Brunk Institution of the Year Sportsmanship Award’ as voted on by the conference Senior Women Administrator (SWA) council. Last year, Saint Anselm was selected as the award recipient. In addition, Webster Bank will make a donation annually to the institutional award winner’s Boys & Girls Club in the name of the school.

Sponsoring 23 championship sports and 15 full-time members, the Northeast-10 is the second largest NCAA Division II athletic conference in the nation and sponsors the most championships of any Division II conference.


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