NEWS

Hockey East and the ECAC recently named their 2011-12 ALl-Academic Teams and 29 OJHL alumni earned the honour. 

Players are eligible for the All-Academic Team in both conferences if they earn a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.00 throughout the academic periods during which they were competitively active.

Three former OJHL players were honoured in Hockey East, headlined by former Aurora Tiger Mike McLaughlin (pictured - photo credit:  Craig Campbell/HHOF Images), who was also one of three players that shared the distinction as Hockey East Top-Scholar Athletes with a perfect 4.0 GPA for the season.  His efforts off the ice also earned him a spot on the 2011-12 Hockey East All-Academic All-Star Team.  Other Hockey East All-Academic Team members are:

• Massachusetts - Joel Hanley (Newmarket, 2007-10)
• UMass-Lowell - Matt Ferreira (Brampton, 2005-08)
• Northeastern - Mike McLaughlin (Aurora, 2007/08)

The ECAC would named 208 student-athletes to its All-Academic Team, of which 26 former OJHL players were named members.  Leading the way was the RPI Engineers, who had six OJHL alumni earn the distinction and they were followed closely by the Brown University Bears with four grads.  From an OJHL perspective, the St. Michael's Buzzers and Wellingotn Dukes lead the pack, each having four alumni on the list.  Former OJHL players earning the distinction, include:

• RPI - Brock Higgs (Kingston, 2008-10)
• RPI - Patrick Koudys (Burlington, 2009-10)
• RPI - Curtis Leonard (Wellington, 2008-11)
• RPI - Mark McGowan (Georgetown/Oakville, 2007-11)
• RPI - Matt Neal (Stouffville, 2008-11)
• RPI - Marty O'Grady (Wellington, 2007-09)

• Brown - Chris Draper (Orangeville, 2010/11)
• Brown - Massimo Lamacchia (Vaughan/Stouffville/Markham, 2005-10)
• Brown - Matt Lorito (Villanova, 2009-11)
• Brown - Marc Senecal (Wellington, 2006-09)

• Clarkson - Jarrett Burton (Kingston, 2008-10)
• Clarkson - Patrick Marsh (Milton/Streetsville/Markham/Burlington, 2007-11)
• Clarkson - Cody Rosen (Kingston, 2008/09)

• Cornell - Eric Axell (St. Michael's, 2007-09)
• Cornell - Nick D'Agostino (St. Michael's, 2007-09)
• Cornell - Omar Kanji (Upper Canada Patriots, 2008/09)

• St. Lawrence - Greg Carey (Burlington, 2007-10)
• St. Lawrence - Nic Vangog (Aurora, 2007-10)
• St. Lawrence - Jeremy Wick (Orangeville/Georgetown, 2006-10)

• Dartmouth - Jesse Beamish (St. Michael's, 2008-11)
• Dartmouth - Nick Walsh (Cobourg, Quinte West, 2005-08)

• Quinnipiac - Dan Clarke (Cobourg, Bowmanville, 2005-08)
• Quinnipiac - Mike Dalhuisen (Lindsay, 2004-06)

• Colgate - Jeremy Price (Milton, 2006-08)

• Union - Daniel Ciampini (Stouffville, St. Michael's, 2006-11)

• Yale - Nick Maricic (Wellington, 2008/09)

Congratulations to all our graduates on their continues successes in the NCAA and best of luck in all their future endeavours!