United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

Coast Guard ensign Jen Ferreira (‘09), a four-year letter winner on the Coast Guard Academy women’s soccer team, had four years of academic and military preparation at the Academy, but delivering a baby is not part of the curriculum at the Academy.

She was aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, with a crew of about 100, when they arrived in the harbor off Port-au-Prince two days after the earthquake struck and they discovered several injured people and no medical care available. The crew created a makeshift clinic near the Coast Guard base and stabilized severely injured Haitians so they could be taken to the American ship for better treatment.

“We gathered members from the crew with any medical training to go and help”, Ferreira wrote in an email. Jen had taken an EMT course in high school which allowed her to be able to contribute a great deal in the crisis as hundreds of people were injured and dying at the clinic. Many members of the Tahoma had CPR and basic first aid training. Most crew members who went over had no more than CPR and basic first aid, but they were still able to provide vital care.

Jen Brockway earned NEWMAC All-Academic honors for the second straight season.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(11/12/09)--Coast Guard placed three student-athletes on the 2009 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Academic volleyball and women’s soccer teams.

Junior Jen Brockway (Marine and Environmental Sciences) and sophomore Erin Nolan (Mechanical Engineering) were named from the women’s soccer team while junior Jessica Anderson (Marine and Environmental Sciences) was named from the volleyball team.

Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2009 spring semester, achieved second year academic status at her institution, and been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.

Women's Soccer - Kurek Earns All-Conference; Bears Win Sportsmanship Award

Katie Kurek earned All-conference honors for the second straight season.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(11/10/09)--Coast Guard senior forward Katie Kurek was selected to the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-conference second team in voting by the league’s 10 head coaches while the team received the NEWMAC Sportsmanship Award in voting by the student-athletes in the conference.

Kurek earns second team honors for the second straight season and remains the only Coast Guard player since Hillary Allegretti in 2004 to earn All-conference honors.

She led Coast Guard with 10 goals, accounting for 10 for team’s 17 goals this season. Her 10 goals ranked her sixth in the conference.