BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Two hundred eight Bridgewater State University student-athletes have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) with selection to the league’s Fall/Winter 2020 All-Academic Team that was released today by MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann.
Student-athletes who compete in championship varsity sports offered by each of the MASCAC institutions during the course of the Fall and Winter 2020 athletic season and have achieved a 3.20 cumulative or semester-based grade point average during the semester are eligible for selection to the Fall/Winter All-Academic Team.
Bridgewater State placed the most student-athletes on the Fall/Winter 2020 MASCAC All-Academic Team, while Westfield State University is second with 186. Worcester State University is close behind in third with 175, Massachusetts Maritime is fourth with 127 and Fitchburg State University rounds out the top five with 115 student-athletes on this year’s squad.
"Congratulations to the 1,238 student-athletes who were named to the 2020 MASCAC Fall/Winter All-Academic team,” Commissioner Baumann said.
“This has been a tremendously challenging time for our student-athletes," Baumann added. "I am so proud that they not only persevered and continued their academic success in the classroom but the team increased over the number from last year’s team.”
The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference, the nation’s oldest Division III men’s and women’s playing conference, has a rich and storied tradition of competitive success while celebrating excellence in the classroom. MASCAC member schools include Bridgewater State University, Fitchburg State University, Framingham State University, MCLA, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Salem State University, Westfield State University and Worcester State University.
Two other institutions, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Plymouth State University, are affiliate members of the conference in the sports of football and men’s ice hockey, while Western Connecticut State University joined the conference as a football affiliate member in 2013.
Click here for a list of BSU student-athletes on the Fall/Winter 2020 MASCAC All-Academic Team (PDF)