62 HONOREES NAMED TO 2018 CACC MEN'S SOCCER ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

December 17, 2018

62 HONOREES NAMED TO 2018 CACC MEN'S SOCCER ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

New Haven, Conn. (12/1718) Sixty-two (62) student-athletes on Monday were named to the 2018 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Men's Soccer All-Academic Team, as announced by Commissioner Dan Mara. The 62 honorees represent all 13 schools in the CACC that compete in the sport at the varsity level.

New Haven, Conn. (12/1718) Sixty-two (62) student-athletes on Monday were named to the 2018 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Men's Soccer All-Academic Team, as announced by Commissioner Dan Mara. The 62 honorees represent all 13 schools in the CACC that compete in the sport at the varsity level.

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Dominican College had one person named to the list as sophomore Bruno Garcia (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) makes his first appearance on the team with a GPA of 3.88.

Georgian Court University led all schools with 10 student-athletes named to the academic squad, followed by Caldwell University with eight and Wilmington University with seven. Manuel Grawe was GCU's top cumulative grade point average on the academic team with a mark of 3.85 in his major of marketing. Five of Caldwell's eight honorees had GPAs of 3.80 or higher, while WilmU's Dimitrios Topouzlis paced the Wildcats with a GPA of 3.98.

It marked the fourth major academic award for Topouzlis in 2018, as he was also named the CACC Top XVI Award winner at the conference's men's soccer championship in early November with having the highest GPA of all competing student-athletes in the semis and final. He was also named a Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-American, while also locking up Academic All-District I honors from the national organization of sports information directors. Topouzlis was one of 12 honorees on the list who earned GPAs of 3.90 or higher. Topouzlis' GPA was also the highest in the CACC for all 13 competing schools.

Thirty-three (33) of the 62 honorees were named to the CACC All-Academic Team for at least the second time in their respective careers, marking 53 percent of the list earning the award multiple times. Twelve (12) of the student-athletes were named to the unit for the third time in their career.

To be eligible for the All-Academic Team, a student-athletes must meet the following criteria: a) minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 at the end of the immediate preceding term; b) minimum of two semesters enrolled as full-time student at member institution; c) student-athlete must be second year student-athlete at member institution; and d) student-athlete must have been athletically eligible the season preceding the award and used a season of eligibility.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.