United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics - Basketball - Bears Place Trio on NEWMAC All-Academic team

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(3/4/09)--Coast Guard placed three student-athletes on the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Academic men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Senior Chanel Lee and sophomore Melissa McCafferty were named to the women’s basketball All-Academic team while senior Justin Church was named to the men’s All-Academic team.

Lee is a Civil Engineering major, McCafferty is a Government major while Church is a Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering major at the Academy.

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 2008 fall semester, achieved second year academic status at her institution, and been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.

The New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.