Adelphi Honorees

Garden City, N.Y. - The Northeast-10 Conference has announced its Commissioner's Honor Roll for the 2012 fall semester, with a total of 3,186 student-athletes from the conference's 16 member institutions receiving recognition.

The Commissioner's Honor Roll recognizes the conference's student-athletes for their achievement in the classroom. Of those that were honored, 138 student-athletes, including nine from Adelphi, earned a perfect grade point average of 4.0, and 45 percent of the student-athletes that were honored received a GPA of 3.5 or higher during the fall semester.

Bentley University had the highest number of student-athletes honored with 350, followed by Assumption College with 235 and Stonehill College with 232. Adelphi had a total of 217 athletes achieve a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Bentley also led the way in terms of percentage, with 69-percent (350 of 508) of its student-athletes being named to the fall honor roll. Adelphi was second with 68-percent and Pace University was third with 61-percent.

In all, 11 of the 16 Northeast-10 schools had over 50-percent of their student-athletes placed on the honor roll, while four schools saw that benchmark reach 60-percent.

American International College saw 17 of its 185 student-athletes earn perfect 4.0 GPAs, marking the most for any school for the fall semester. Merrimack College was second with 16 earning 4.0 GPAs, while Le Moyne was third with 12 student-athletes that received a 4.0 and Adelphi had nine athletes post a GPA of 4.0.

By sport, baseball had the most student-athletes honored with 294, followed by women's soccer, which had 288, and football with 249.

To be eligible for selection to the Northeast-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, a student-athlete must have met and or exceeded a minimum 3.0 semester grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) during the Fall 2012 semester.