AMERICA EAST STAFF DIRECTORY Shonna brown
Interim Commissioner
Matt Bourque
Associate Commissioner for External Relations
Frank Sullivan
Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketbal/Officiating
Jessica Descartes
Assistant Commissioner for Finance/Administration
CHAD DWYER
Director of Championships/Administrator
Sean Tainsh
Director of Communications
Leslie Hanna
Associate Director for Communications/PR
pete estes
Communications Intern
chelsey canavan
Marketing/New Media Intern
warren lane
Administrative Intern
Kathy Ferraraccio
Coordinator of Volleyball Officials
Roger Taylor
Coordinator of Soccer Officials
Barbara Carreiro
Coordinator of Field Hockey Officials
Mara Wager
Coordinator of Women’s Lacrosse Officials
About America East... Now in its fourth decade of operation, America East has evolved into one of the most comprehensive NCAA Division I conferences with a commitment to broad-based, competitive athletics programs, complementing the academic integrity and missions of the member institutions. Progressive in its approach to its more than 3,400 student-athletes, America East recognizes champions in each of its 20 sports: baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball. America East also conducts the nation’s most comprehensive academic recognition program for student-athletes. With a geographic footprint covering the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast regions of the United States, America East strives to develop champions in academics, athletics and leadership at its nine member institutions: University at Albany, Binghamton University, Boston University, University of Hartford, University of Maine, UMBC, University of New Hampshire, Stony Brook University and University of Vermont.
ACADEMICS… • Vermont won its seventh-straight America East Academic Cup after its student-athletes registered a cumulative GPA of 3.17. Six of the nine America East schools had student-athletes with GPAs of 3.0 or better. • America East’s nearly 3,400 student-athletes set a new league record with a combined 3.07 grade-point average in 2010-11. More than half of the conference’s student-athletes were named to the Academic Honor Roll for maintaining GPAs of 3.0 or better. • Binghamton University’s Sven Vloedgraven (tennis) and University at Albany’s Nikki Branchini (lacrosse) were named 2010-11 America East Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, respectively. • Three schools (Boston U., New Hampshire, Vermont) ranked among the nation’s best in Graduation Success Rate (GSR), with scores of 94 or better. Nearly one-third of all America East teams had perfect GSR scores. • Thirty programs from America East schools received Academic Progress Rate (APR) public recognition awards from the NCAA for finishing among the top 10 percent in the nation. • Seventeen student-athletes received a total of 19 National Academic All-America honors.
ATHLETICS… • Every America East school won a conference championship or regular-season title for the first time
since 2005-06.
• Boston University won its sixth straight America East Stuart P. Haskell, Jr. Commissioner’s Cup and
11th overall to surpass Delaware for the most Cups in conference history.
• Twenty-nine America East student-athletes earned All-America recognition, including one each in
Nick Zibelli
men’s basketball and men’s and women’s soccer, five in men’s lacrosse, two each in women’s lacrosse, baseball and field hockey and 15 in cross country/track & field.
Coordinator of Baseball Umpires
• America East was second among all men’s lacrosse automatic-qualifying conferences in RPI.
Nick Cinquanto
• Albany was the final undefeated women’s lacrosse team in Division I, with an 18-0 record, before
Coordinator of Softball Umpires
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losing to national champion Northwestern in the NCAA quarterfinals.
• UMBC defeated Princeton in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship, the eighth
time in 10 years an America East team had advanced in the tournament.
• Boston University had 13-straight shutouts, the second longest streak in NCAA women’s soccer his-
tory. • America East finished fourth in the field hockey RPI behind only the ACC, Big 10 and Big East and had two teams (Albany and Boston University) ranked in the final NFCA Top 20. • Stony Brook placed seventh as a team at the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship. • After winning its first America East baseball championship since 2006, Maine beat FIU in an NCAA
Regional game to give America East an NCAA win in each of the last three seasons.
• Sven Vloedgraven of Binghamton was selected to the NCAA Tennis Singles Championship for the
second-straight year. He is the only America East student-athlete to have played in the event.
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