Ten Student-Athletes Earn Academic All-Ivy Honors for Fall Sports

PRINCETON, N.J. – Ten Dartmouth student-athletes were honored with 2014 Academic All-Ivy recognition for the fall season, the league office announced Tuesday.

To qualify for a spot on the conference's top academic team for the fall season, a student-athlete must make a major contribution to their team in addition to maintaining at least a 3.0 grade point average. The Big Green saw seven seniors and three juniors earn the distinction for this most recent time period.

Volleyball's Paige Caridi is the only individual to receive the honor for the second time, finding her name on the list for the second time in as many years. A government major with a 3.51 GPA, Caridi was a Second-Team All-Ivy player on the court as a junior for the Big Green. She was tied for first on the team with a career-best 268 kills, moving into a tie for 20th in the program's record books for kills in a season.

The men's and women's cross country programs were represented by a pair of seniors as Silas Talbot and Sarah B. DeLozier were recognized. Talbot served as the team captain in 2014 and was the Big Green's top runner on several occasions, while boasting a 3.56 GPA in English. DeLozier is also an English major and carries a 3.44 GPA. This season, she helped lead Dartmouth to its second straight Ivy League Heptagonal Championship and a berth in the NCAA Championship where she ran to a 52nd-place overall finish.

Senior Ali Savage of the field hockey team was a unanimous First-Team All-Ivy League player for the third time this season, a first for the Big Green in more than four decades of play. Leading the team in every major offensive category once again this fall, she also did it while earning a 3.46 GPA as a neuroscience major.

On the tennis court, juniors Katherine Yau and Dovydas Sakinis represented the Dartmouth women and men with the academic honor. Yau, a neuroscience major carries a 3.53 cumulative GPA, and was recently named an ITA All-Academic player following a sophomore campaign that earned her All-Ivy First-Team recognition. Sakinis has a 3.52 GPA while majoring in economics. At the ITA Regional Championship in October, Sakinis and teammate Chris Kipouras made it to the finals in the doubles bracket.

Football landed two players on the list as seniors Ryan McManus and Riley Lyons were honored. McManus was a first-team all-league player on the field as he was fourth in the Ivy League in receptions and receiving yards and was twice named the Ivy Offensive Player of the Week all while earning a 3.40 GPA as a history major. Lyons — a biology major with a 3.78 GPA— averaged 60.2 yards on kickoffs with 12 touchbacks on 48 kicks and helped Dartmouth rank second in the league in kickoff coverage.

Senior Laura Thurber battled back from injuries that sidelined her in 2013 to aid the Big Green's second-place finish this fall. One of three Dartmouth student-athletes on this list to major in neurosciences, Thurber carries a 3.63 cumulative GPA into her final semester in Hanover.

Fresh off an Ivy League title, a berth in the NCAA Tournament and a win in the first round, Hugh Danilack of the men's soccer team finds himself on this list. A government major with a 3.94 GPA, Danilack was a First Team CoSIDA All-Academic this fall and was fourth on the team in scoring with eight points.

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