America East Releases: All-Conference | All-Academic
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A pair of University of Vermont men's soccer standouts Connor Tobin (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Loren Hill (Eugene, Ore.) were selected to the 2007 America East Men's Soccer All-Conference First Team and three others, T.J. Gore (Macomb, Mich.), Roger Scully (East Lyme, Conn.) and Panos Georgiadis (Morrisville, Vt.), were named to the second team. Also, Jordan Crasilneck (Eugene, Ore.) joined Tobin, Hill and Georgiadis on the America East Men's Soccer All-Academic Team. The league announced its annual awards Thursday prior to the start of the conference championship that opens with quarterfinal action Saturday. The six Catamounts were instrumental as Vermont (7-9-2, 4-2-2 America East) finished in second place in America East and will host a home playoff game for the fourth straight season. In the America East Men's Soccer Championship semifinals, UVM will meet either third-seeded Boston University (9-6-3, 3-2-3) or sixth-seeded New Hampshire (5-4-8, 2-1-5) on Wednesday, November 14 at 1:30pm at Centennial Field. A junior back, Tobin earns a spot on the first team after being named to the second team last year and the America East All-Rookie Team as a freshman in 2005. Along with fellow back Georgiadis and Scully in goal, he has helped lead a team defense that has allowed only three goals in eight league games, the fewest in the America East. Last week Tobin was the lone America East student-athlete to earn ESPN The Magazine Men's Soccer Academic All-District Team honors. One of the most improved players on the team, Hill had a great senior season as one of the steadiest two-way midfielders in the conference. He is one of four Catamounts to start all 18 games this year and scored two goals and set up another. Georgiadis earns second team honors for the second consecutive season. He moved from midfield to back as a senior and was instrumental in the Catamounts stingy team defense that has shut out its last five opponents. Also adept at moving the ball forward, he chipped in with one assist. Gore is on the second team at forward after making the first team as a freshman last year. He tied for the team lead with three goals and added one assist. Two of Gore's goals were game-winners and he scored twice in conference games. Scully had an excellent junior season in goal for the Catamounts with a 0.66 goals against average in all games to rank second in the America East, 20th in the NCAA, and was fourth in the league with seven shutouts. The first UVM goalkeeper to be honored by America East since Chris Shaver '01 in 2000, Scully excelled in league games with a minuscule 0.35 GAA and recorded five shutouts in eight America East matches. Vermont is the only school in the league with four student-athletes on the America East Men's Soccer All-Academic Team and it marks the second straight season UVM has had the most student-athletes on the team. It also is the second year in a row that Crasilneck, Georgiadis and Tobin have been named to the all-academic team that is selected based on the student-athlete's academic and athletic accomplishments. Academic achievement for consideration requires student-athletes to have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 entering the season and athletically, student-athletes are required to be a nomination on the post-season awards ballot.
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A pair of University of Vermont men's soccer standouts Connor Tobin (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Loren Hill (Eugene, Ore.) were selected to the 2007 America East Men's Soccer All-Conference First Team and three others, T.J. Gore (Macomb, Mich.), Roger Scully (East Lyme, Conn.) and Panos Georgiadis (Morrisville, Vt.), were named to the second team. Also, Jordan Crasilneck (Eugene, Ore.) joined Tobin, Hill and Georgiadis on the America East Men's Soccer All-Academic Team. The league announced its annual awards Thursday prior to the start of the conference championship that opens with quarterfinal action Saturday. The six Catamounts were instrumental as Vermont (7-9-2, 4-2-2 America East) finished in second place in America East and will host a home playoff game for the fourth straight season. In the America East Men's Soccer Championship semifinals, UVM will meet either third-seeded Boston University (9-6-3, 3-2-3) or sixth-seeded New Hampshire (5-4-8, 2-1-5) on Wednesday, November 14 at 1:30pm at Centennial Field. A junior back, Tobin earns a spot on the first team after being named to the second team last year and the America East All-Rookie Team as a freshman in 2005. Along with fellow back Georgiadis and Scully in goal, he has helped lead a team defense that has allowed only three goals in eight league games, the fewest in the America East. Last week Tobin was the lone America East student-athlete to earn ESPN The Magazine Men's Soccer Academic All-District Team honors. One of the most improved players on the team, Hill had a great senior season as one of the steadiest two-way midfielders in the conference. He is one of four Catamounts to start all 18 games this year and scored two goals and set up another. Georgiadis earns second team honors for the second consecutive season. He moved from midfield to back as a senior and was instrumental in the Catamounts stingy team defense that has shut out its last five opponents. Also adept at moving the ball forward, he chipped in with one assist. Gore is on the second team at forward after making the first team as a freshman last year. He tied for the team lead with three goals and added one assist. Two of Gore's goals were game-winners and he scored twice in conference games. Scully had an excellent junior season in goal for the Catamounts with a 0.66 goals against average in all games to rank second in the America East, 20th in the NCAA, and was fourth in the league with seven shutouts. The first UVM goalkeeper to be honored by America East since Chris Shaver '01 in 2000, Scully excelled in league games with a minuscule 0.35 GAA and recorded five shutouts in eight America East matches. Vermont is the only school in the league with four student-athletes on the America East Men's Soccer All-Academic Team and it marks the second straight season UVM has had the most student-athletes on the team. It also is the second year in a row that Crasilneck, Georgiadis and Tobin have been named to the all-academic team that is selected based on the student-athlete's academic and athletic accomplishments. Academic achievement for consideration requires student-athletes to have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 entering the season and athletically, student-athletes are required to be a nomination on the post-season awards ballot.