Men's Team (pdf)

TROY, N.Y. – ECAC Hockey has announced its members of the 2010 Men's All-Academic Team and 17 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athletes have been recognized, including six who are making their third straight appearances on the list.

Honorees include Alex Angers-Goulet, Bryan Brutlag, Erik Burgdoerfer, Jerry D'Amigo, Jeff Foss, Scott Halpern, Tyler Helfrich, Christian Jensen, Paul Kerins, Joel Malchuk, Bryce Merriam, Peter Merth, Marty O'Grady, Chase Polacek, Justin Smith, Garett Vassel and Mark Zarbo.

A senior, Vassel is making his fourth appearance on the league's All-Academic Team, while juniors Foss, Halpern, Helfrich, Malchuk and Polacek are all three-time honorees. Two-time selections include seniors Jensen, Kerins and Merth, as well as sophomores Angers-Goulet and Smith.

As a team, the Engineers men produced the third most selections of any ECAC Hockey school. Brown, which had 28 selections, led the league followed by Quinnipiac, which had 19. Rensselaer and Dartmouth each had 17, while Union was one behind with 16. Colgate had 15 selections, followed closely by both Harvard (14) and Princeton (14). Cornell and St. Lawrence each had 13, followed by Yale (11) and Clarkson (4).

The Rensselaer women's hockey team had 15 All-Academic honorees for a combined 32 total, falling one shy of Dartmouth's league-high 33 selections.

Student-athletes are eligible for the All-Academic Team if they have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.00 on a 4.00 scale or have an average GPA of 3.00 over the past three semesters.

The Engineers finished last season with an 18-17-4 overall record and a 10-9-3 mark in ECAC Hockey play, earning home ice in the playoffs for the first time since the 2005-06 campaign.