Maine Maritime honored its student-athletes at the annual Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Athletics Banquet in the Alfond Student Center Tuesday evening. Courtney Dufour and Benjamin Russell were honored as the Senior Scholar Athletes and Leah Jackson and Russell took home the Athlete of the Year awards for 2012-13.
Dufour is a four-year member of the women's basketball team and owns a 3.6 GPA. The Scheel Scholarship recipient tied the program's record for threes in a game with seven this season and averaged 7.0 points per game last season.
Jackson earned her second consecutive Athlete of the Year award. A member of both the basketball and softball teams, Jackson was named to the North Atlantic Conference Second Team in basketball in the winter and was first team selection, and Defensive Player of the Year, in softball last spring. Jackson averaged 7.7 points per game and 10.7 rebounds per contest. She currently leads the NAC in home runs with five in softball.
Russell is the first person to win both the Senior Scholar and Athlete of the Year award. He is a two-time captain for the soccer team and has earned All-North Atlantic Conference Second Team honors twice. He has been a two-time All-Academic member in the conference and was selected Third Team Academic All-America by the College of Sport Information Directors of America in soccer.
Russell is a three-time captain of the basketball team and two-time All-Academic selection. He also earned District One Academic All-America honors by the College of Sport Information Directors of America in basketball.
He carries a grade point average above 3.9, ranks second in his class.
ALL-CONFERENCE
Spring 2012
Andrew DiSalvo, Lacrosse, Player of the year, All-Conference first team
Jason Smith, Lacrosse, All-Conference second team
Ian Larcom, Lacrosse, All-Conference second team
Erica Taylor, Softball, All-Conference first team
Sabrina Keach, Softball, All-Conference second team
Leah Jackson, Softball, All-Conference first team, defensive player of the year.
Fall 2013
John Regis, football, Bogan Division fist team
Billy Wetherbee, football, Bogan Division second team
Brock Lawrence, football, Bogan Division second team
Dan Mackenzie, Golf, NAC Second team
Abdullah Alkhayyat, Soccer, NAC first team
David Clough, Soccer, NAC first team
Nicholas George, Soccer, NAC second team
Benjamin Russell, Soccer, NAC second team
Jennifer Dixon, volleyball, NAC second team
Ariel Knights, volleyball, NAC second team
Sydney Robertson, volleyball, NAC second team
Sarah Brochu, soccer, NAC second team
Annie Koensgen, soccer, NAC second team
Winter 2013
Mary Badeen, Basketball, MWBCA second team, all rookie team, co-rookie of the year
Leah Jackson, Basketball, NAC second team
ALL-ACADEMIC
Spring 2012
Emmett Huber, Lacrosse
Leah Jackson, Basketball/ Softball
Brian Corain, Lacrosse
Fall 2013
Benjamin Russell, Soccer
Kari Jones, Soccer
Jeremy Bullard, Cross Country
Gavin Cote, Football
Jonathan Thoms, Football
Dan Edgerly, Football
Zach Frost, Football
Abe Kilborn, Football
Evan Sinclair, Football
Josh Hall, Football
Lawrence MacDonald, Football
Alex Morrison, Football
Keith Nelson, Football
SAAC OFFICERS
President: Kennan Eaton
Vice President: Chad McDonnell
Treasurer: Cassandra Lafontaine
Secretary: Erica Taylor
SCHOLAR ATHLETES (3.3 GPA and higher)
Wyatt LaPage, Ben Russell, Shawn Dishop, Jeremy Bullard, Hayden Norwood, Jordan Redelbach, Lilly Slazas, Logan Poirier, Tyler Easler, Lawrence McDonald, Keith Nelson
Chris Gilman, Kari Jones, Courtney Dufour, Ashley Burnett, Joe Corbeau, Zach Radcliffe
Cody McDonald, Dan Rivers, Ben Wallace, Catherine Bailey, Harry Motter, Kevin Pepin, Jess Menges
Leah Jackson, Jacob Rivard, Gavin Cote, Allyson Fuehrer, Dan Edgerly, Micahel Dedian
Evan Sinclair, Jill Perron, Sam Peabody, Ben Cummings, John Tragert, Andi Flannery, Alex Scott, Nicholas George
Annie Koensgen, John Doyon, Tim Grant, Jacob Weymouth, Graham Pingree, Samanth Pease, Haley Eckert, Ashley Macellino, Elliot Casey, Elin Sonesson, Alex Morrison, Jon Weymouth, Gabe Giguere, Justin Lovely, Kyle Marshall
FOUR-YEAR ATHLETES
Kari Jones, soccer
Christina Evans, soccer
Courtney Dufour, basketball
Casey Everest, basketball
Samantha DePlanche, cross country
Leah Jackson, softball
Sabrina Keach, softball
Autumn Jones, softball
Ben Russell, soccer, basketball
Abdullah Alkyhat, soccer
Wade Severance, football
Brock Lawrence, football
Tyler Chamberlain, football
Joel Chadbourne, football
Matt Hebert, football
Jon Thoms, football
Aaron Troussaint, football
Paul Campbell, basketball
Oscar Adams, lacrosse
Erik Milles, lacrosse
Scot Baribeau, lacrosse
Jason Smith, lacrosse
Alex Hermes, lacrosse
Evan Vashon, cross country
Jen Dixon, volleyball
ELITE 8 (awarded to the athletes with the highest GPAs in their respective classes)
Freshmen: Shawn Dishop and Lillian Slazas
Sophomores: Wyatt LaPage and Ally Fuehrer
Juniors: Gavin Cote and Ashley Burnett
Seniors: Ben Russell and Kari Jones
