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Mystic, Conn. – The Northeast-10 Conference and the
conference’s Senior Woman Administrator (SWA) council
selected Assumption College as the recipient of the 2008-2009 David
R. Brunk Award honoring Institution Sportsmanship. The award was
presented Monday evening at the conference’s end of the year
awards banquet in Mystic Conn.
Throughout the 2008-2009 academic year the Northeast-10 awarded one
team from each of its 23 championship sports with the ‘Team
Sportsmanship Award’ at the end of each season’s
championship segment.
The ‘Team Sportsmanship Award’ is presented to the team
that best exemplifies the spirit of sportsmanship and generally
conducts themselves with a high degree of integrity, character and
class.
Assumption received the ‘Team Sportsmanship Award’ in
football, Men’s Indoor Track & Field and Men’s
Lacrosse. This is the first year that the Greyhounds garnered
‘Team Sportsmanship Honors.
With 15 member institutions the Northeast-10 is the second largest
NCAA Division II athletic conference in the nation. Its 23
championship sports provide athletic opportunities for over 5,500
student-athletes, the largest such program of any Division II
conference.
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2008-09 Team
Sportsmanship Award Winners
Fall
Men’s Cross Country – Saint Anselm
Women’s Cross Country – Saint Rose
Field Hockey – Southern Connecticut
Football – Assumption
Golf – American International
Men’s Soccer – New Haven
Women’s Soccer – Le Moyne
Volleyball – Merrimack
Winter
Men’s Basketball – Saint Michael’s
Women’s Basketball – Saint Anselm
Ice Hockey – Stonehill
Men’s Track & Field – Assumption & Bentley
Women’s Track & Field – Stonehill
Men’s Swimming & Diving – Saint Michael’s
Women’s Swimming & Diving – Bentley/Le Moyne
Spring
Baseball – Bentley
Men’s Lacrosse – Assumption
Women’s Lacrosse – Saint Anselm
Softball – Saint Michael’s
Men’s Tennis – Stonehill
Women’s Tennis – New Haven
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field – UMass Lowell
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field – Saint Rose
