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Three Princeton Athletes Earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large Honors
May 22, 2008 | General, Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Swimming and Diving
Three Princeton student-athletes?seniors Katie Lewis-Lamonica and Landis Stankievech and junior Monika Friedman?earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large honors for District 2 in voting announced Thursday. Stankievech, a first-team Academic All-District selection for the second time, is now eligible for Academic All-America honors. Friedman and Lewis-Lamonica were second-team picks.
Stankievech, a member of the Princeton men's hockey team, was one of just three Princeton students this academic year to earn a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. A mechanical and aerospace engineering major, he also won Princeton's Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
A native of Trochu, Alberta, Stankievech also was a winner of the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award in 2007-08. He scored the game-winning goal for Princeton in its ECAC championship game win over Harvard and had seven goals and six assists on the season to help the Tigers reach the NCAA tournament. He was also an Academic All-Ivy and ECAC All-Academic Team honoree this season.
Friedman, a member of the Princeton women's swimming and diving team, was the Ivy League champion in both the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly events this season. A psychology major, she qualified for the NCAA championship meet in the 200-meter butterfly.
The Stanford, Calif., native, whose league titles in 2008 were the first of her career, has helped the Tigers to three straight Ivy League championships. She also earned Academic All-Ivy honors this past season.
Lewis-Lamonica, a member of the Princeton women's lacrosse team, earns Academic All-District honors for the second time. She also earned a second-team honor in 2006. A student in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, she is also Princeton's nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award in 2008.
The Lawrenceville, N.J., native finished her career tied for seventh all-time at Princeton with 139 goals despite missing the last seven games of the 2008 season after suffering an ACL injury in April. She was a three-time first-team all-region pick, a three-time All-Ivy selection and the 2005 Ivy League Rookie of the Year in women's lacrosse.
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs. To be eligible, student-athletes must be starters or significant reserves, have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or higher and have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing.
District 2 includes schools in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.