Temple University Athletics
Eight Owls Receive NFHCA National Academic Honors
3.5.07 | Field Hockey
March 5, 2007
PHILADELPHIA - The Temple field hockey team, under the direction of second-year head coach Amanda Janney, was honored by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) as one of 48 Division I teams boasting a 3.0 GPA or higher, announced the association Monday.
Juniors Ashley Bird (secondary education and Spanish) and Nadia Clendening (strategic and organizational communication), sophomores Mary Catherine Kinneman (accounting), Liz Watto (elementary education) and Emily Ziegler (political science) and freshmen Mandi Ruth (undeclared), Whitney Weiant (psychology) and Charise Young (undeclared) were all selected as National Academic Team honorees. The NFHCA honors individual student-athletes holding a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30 through the first semester of the 2006-07 academic year.
For Bird, Kinneman and Watto, this is their second academic accolade this year as the NFHCA announcement comes on the heels of their selection to the Atlantic 10 all-academic team in November. Additionally, on Saturday, February 3, Kinneman was honored during the Rhode Island - Fordham men's basketball television broadcast in the A-10/CSTV Student-Athlete Spotlight.
Temple field hockey's 47th season of intercollegiate competition begins in August. The 2007 schedule has not yet been announced.
