Landmark Announces Winter All-Academic Team
MADISON, N.J. - The Landmark Conference today announced the names of the 32 student-athletes who make up the 2007-08 Winter Landmark All-Academic Team, which recognizes two male and two female athletes who have excelled athletically and academically from each of the eight Landmark institutions.
Landmark Announces Winter All-Academic Team
Goucher's Representatives: Three Basketball Players, One Swimmer
March 27, 2008
MADISON, N.J. - The Landmark Conference today announced the names of the 32 student-athletes who make up the 2007-08 Winter Landmark All-Academic Team, which recognizes two male and two female athletes who have excelled athletically and academically from each of the eight Landmark institutions.
Goucher's four representatives on the inaugural Winter Landmark All-Academic Team are Ian Brown (Durban, South Africa/Glenwood Boys), a senior forward on the men's basketball team, Amir Hakim (Baltimore, MD/Baltimore City College), a junior forward on the men's basketball team, Bethany Natoli (Alexandria, VA/O'Connell), a junior on the women's swimming team, and Shadae Swan (Baltimore, MD/St. Frances Academy), a senior guard/forward on the women's basketball team.
Nominees could compete in any of the Landmark winter sports and had to be a sophomore, junior or senior with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Brown, an international relations major who plans a career in foreign service, averaged 5.0 points and 4.5 rebounds for the Gophers in 2007-08.
Hakim ranked second in the Landmark Conference in blocked shots (1.04 per game) and eighth in field-goal percentage (.491), plus he scored 184 points (7.4 per game). The management major has one more season of eligibility remaining.
Natoli, an international relations major, is the reigning Landmark Conference champion in the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes and she placed fourth in the 200-yard individual medley at the conference's inaugural championship meet.
Swan recently completed her career at Goucher with 1,636 points, making the communications major the second-leading all-time scorer in the history of the school's women's basketball program. She averaged 22.4 points per game in 2007-08.
The team features 16 seniors, 13 juniors and three sophomores, and all six winter sports sponsored by the Landmark Conference are represented by at least one athlete.