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The Northeast-10 Conference and Webster Bank have teamed up to present the inaugural sportsmanship awards program, as announced today by the league office. The awards program, which includes honoring one team from each of the league’s 23 championship sports, will also recognize one institution as the “Institution of the Year Sportsmanship Award.”
The league’s Senior Woman Administrator Council will
oversee the awards program.
“Sportsmanship is one of the Northeast-10 Conference’s
key principles,” said Commissioner David Brunk. “As a
league, we have been particularly proactive in encouraging good
sportsmanship during competition, as well as respect for fairness,
courtesy and ethical conduct to others.”
The Northeast-10 will award one team from each of its 23
championship sports with a “Team Sportsmanship Award”
at the end of each season’s championship segment. This award
will be presented to the team that best exemplifies the spirit of
sportsmanship and generally conducts themselves with a high degree
of integrity, character and class. The team award will be decided
upon by a vote of each league team’s head coach, team captain
and Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative.
In June, one of the 15 institutions will receive the
“Northeast-10 Institution of the Year Sportsmanship
Award.” The Northeast-10 Senior Woman Administrator Council
will vote one the yearly institutional winner at their June
meeting.
In addition, Webster Bank will make a donation annually to the
institutional award winner’s local Boys & Girls Club in
the name of the school. The Boys & Girls Club is a common
charity that many of the Northeast-10 institutions’ SAAC
contribute to through volunteerism and monetary donations.
“We appreciate Webster Bank for being so supportive of this
initiative as it could be something that other leagues may adopt in
the near future,” Brunk continued. “Being a leader in
Division II athletics, the Northeast-10 strives to embody the
vision of the NCAA and to promote its student-athletes for their
conduct and composure on and off the field of play.
Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster
Bank, National Association and Webster Insurance. With $18.0
billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking,
mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment
services through 160 banking offices, 308 ATMs, telephone banking
and the Internet. Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm
Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance
company Budget Installment Corp., Center Capital Corporation, an
equipment finance company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut
and provides health savings account trustee and administrative
services through HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank, Member
FDIC.
The Northeast-10 is one of the largest and is the most diverse
NCAA Division II playing conference in the nation. It sponsors 23
championship sports including baseball, men’s basketball,
women’s basketball, men’s cross country, women’s
cross country, football, field hockey, men’s golf,
men’s ice hockey, men’s lacrosse, women’s
lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s
indoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field,
men’s outdoor track and field, women’s outdoor track
and field, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, softball,
women’s volleyball, men’s swimming and diving, and
women’s swimming and diving.
Full Members of the Northeast-10 include American International
College, Assumption College, Bentley College, Bryant University,
Franklin Pierce, Le Moyne College, The University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Merrimack College, Pace University, Saint Anselm College,
Saint Michael’s College, The College of Saint Rose, Southern
Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University,
and Stonehill College.