TROY, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's hockey team has placed 21 student-athletes on the 2019-20 ECAC Hockey All-Academic team, which includes nine repeat honorees.
Sophomore
Lilli Friis-Hansen (Lyngby, Denmark / Gentofte) was selected to the Commissioner's List, with a cumulative grade point average of 3.96, including a perfect 4.0 grade point average in the Spring 2020 semester. The Commissioner's List is made up of the top scholars from each institution.
Friis-Hansen is one of 10 Business and Management majors from Rensselaer. Nine total majors were represented, including three from engineering and one each from biology, business analytics, chemistry, communications and psychological sciences. Three honorees -
Kendra Farole,
Kirsten Iwanski and
Sabrina Repaci - are four-time recipients, while eight freshmen are on the list.
Players are eligible for the All-Academic team if they earn a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.00 on a 4.00 scale or have a GPA over 3.00 over the past three semesters.
As a team, Rensselaer had a GPA of 3.563 in the Spring 2020 semester and boast a cumulative average of 3.178. Twenty-one of the 24 student-athletes had at least a 3.0 GPA last semester with 17 of them earning a 3.50-or-better.
| Name |
Year |
Major |
All-Academic Teams |
| Claudia Black |
Gr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20 |
| Julia Blitz |
Fr. |
Communication, Media, and Design |
2019-20 |
| Nyle Boyce |
Fr. |
Business Analytics |
2019-20 |
| Sarah Bukvic |
Fr. |
Biology |
2019-20 |
| Madeleine Burnett |
Jr. |
Industrial and Management Engineering |
2019-20, 2017-18 |
| Mikayla Capelle |
So. |
Business and Management |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Teeghan Dalby |
Fr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20 |
| Kendra Farole |
Sr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17 |
| Lilli Friis-Hansen |
So. |
Business and Management |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Jenn Gregg |
Jr. |
Chemistry |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Megan Hayes |
Sr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Kirsten Iwanski |
Sr. |
Biomedical Engineering |
2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17 |
| Morgan Ondrick |
Jr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Blake Orosz |
Sr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20 |
| Maddy Peterson |
Fr. |
Psychological Science |
2019-20 |
| Hannah Price |
Fr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20 |
| Amanda Rampado |
Fr. |
Biomedical Engineering |
2019-20 |
| Sabrina Repaci |
Sr. |
Materials Engineering |
2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17 |
| Lauren Severson |
Jr. |
Industrial and Management Engineering |
2019-20, 2018-19 |
| Delaney Weiss |
So. |
Biomedical Engineering |
2019-20 |
| Taylor Zahirnyi |
Fr. |
Business and Management |
2019-20 |
COMMISSIONER'S LIST
