2009-10 SNHU Athletics
Award Winners
Front Row (L-R): Emma Lundberg, Amber Chandronnait, Maura
Murphy
Back Row (L-R): Tyler Parks, Mike Smith, Richard Kentish, D.J.
Lantz, Eric Pelletier
PHOTO GALLERY FROM 2010 SNHU ATHLETIC AWARDS
BANQUET
MANCHESTER, N.H.
– Junior Amber Chandronnait (Bow,
N.H.) and senior Richard Kentish (Kingston,
Jamaica) have been named the 2009-10 Female and Male Athletes of
the Year at Southern New Hampshire University. The
announcement was made during the University's 45th
annual awards ceremony held Monday at the Center of New Hampshire
Radisson in downtown Manchester.
Chandronnait was also named the
SNHU female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, while junior D.J.
Lantz (New London, N.H.) was named the male
Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Graduate student Maura
Murphy (Candia, N.H.) and sophomore Tyler
Parks (Moultonborough, N.H.) and junior Mike
Smith (Lynnfield, Mass.) were named recipients of the
Sportsmanship Award. Sophomore Emma Lundberg
(Hebron, N.H.) and senior Eric Pelletier (Beverly,
Mass.) were the recipients of the Unsung Hero Award.
Chandronnait captured the Athlete
of the Year award for the second consecutive year. In
2009-10, Chandronnait repeated as Northeast-10 women's tennis
Player of the Year, becoming just the third player in NE-10 history
to be a repeat winner of the award. She rolled through
conference play, posting a 13-0 mark in singles play as well as a
13-0 record in doubles. In two seasons in a Penmen uniform,
she has compiled an overall singles mark of 48-3, including a 25-0
NE-10 mark. This season she is 18-1 in dual match singles,
with her lone loss coming to the No. 1 singles player from
Dartmouth. Chandronnait also captured the singles title at
the Wilson/ITA East Regional for the second straight season.
In 2010, Chandronnait has led the
SNHU women's tennis program to its best season in program
history. The Penmen are currently 19-1 overall and in the
midst of an 18-match win streak. SNHU captured both the
Northeast-10 regular season and tournament titles and will be
making its second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
A Business Administration major,
Chandronnait has compiled a 3.824 GPA through her first three
semesters at Southern New Hampshire.
Kentish cemented his career as one
of the top defenders in Division II soccer in 2009. As he
helped lead SNHU to the NCAA quarterfinals, Kentish earned First
Team All-America honors from Daktronics and the NSCAA, and was
named the Northeast-10 Defensive Player of the Year. One of
four players to start all 22 games for the Penmen, he anchored a
defense that posted 11 shutouts, including seven in a row, and its
0.56 goals-against average was good for seventh nationally.
In addition, Kentish was named to the NSCAA Scholar All-America
team. Kentish wrapped up his career as a three-time
Northeast-10 All-Conference performer, including two First Team
selections, and a two-time All-America selection. In 60 games
in an SNHU uniform, he helped the Penmen post 32 shutouts and make
two NCAA Tournament appearances.
Lantz, in his third season with the
Southern New Hampshire golf program, has put together one of the
finest seasons in Penmen golf history in 2009-10. In nine
tournaments this season, Lantz finished in the top 10 eight times
and in the top three six times, including his first-ever medalist
finish at the season-ending AIC Invitational. Lantz earned
NE-10 All-Conference honors for the second time in his career with
his third place finish at the Northeast-10 Championship. He has
qualified as an individual competitor for the upcoming NCAA
Atlantic/East Super Regional to be held in West Virginia next week.
A Business Administration major,
has posted a 3.68 GPA through his first five semesters at Southern
New Hampshire. He was named to the Northeast-10 All-Academic
team last year.
A five-year member of the SNHU
women's lacrosse team who missed one season due to injury, Murphy
will leave the Penmen program as one of its most prolific
scorers. A two-year captain, Murphy led the team in scoring
in each of her first two seasons and in 2009, was named to the
NE-10 All-Tournament Team and ranked third in scoring.
Although her senior season was cut short by injury, Murphy wrapped
up the year with 15 goals and 12 assists in nine games.
Murphy currently ranks fourth in program history with 193 points on
the strength of 138 goals and 55 assists. Her 138 goals place
third in that category, while her 55 assists are good for fifth
overall.
On Saturday, October 10, Parks and
Smith were competing for the SNHU men's cross country team at
Boston's Franklin Park in the New England Championship when they
came across an unconscious Boston University runner passed out from
dehydration. The pair stayed with the runner until he became
conscious, then escorted him to the nearest medical tent, where he
was taken to the hospital via waiting ambulance. As a result,
neither Parks nor Smith finished the event, leaving SNHU with just
five finishers, the minimum required to post a team score.
Lundberg rewrote the SNHU women's
cross country record book in 2009. She posted four of the top
five 5K times in program history this fall, including a school
record time of 19 minutes, three second established at the Pop
Crowell Invitational in October as she finished third in a field of
290 runners. At season's end, she owned the three fastest
times in school history, and had lowered the school record by 45
seconds. Over her first two seasons, Lundberg has registered
nine of the top 20 times in program history and owns five of the
top six sub-20 minute times in the record books. As a
freshman Lundberg came within 11 seconds of the school record of
19:48 that had stood since 2004.
Pelletier, a four-year member of
the Penmen baseball program, has split time on the right side of
the infield at first and second base this season. In 2010 he
ranks second on the squad with his .281 batting average, while his
17 runs batted in also place him second on the team. Eric
leads the team with 13 multi-hit games, including three three-hit
performances, and his six multi-RBI games tie him for the team lead
in that category. A team captain this season, Pelletier has
steadily improved over his four seasons, batting .279 over his
final two seasons. He collected his 100th career hit April 25
against Bentley in a 7-6 win.
Most Valuable Players were also named for SNHU's 16 varsity
sports:
Baseball - Pelletier
Women's Basketball – Ashara Carrington
(Marblehead, Mass.)
Men's Basketball – Tory Stapleton (Rahway,
N.J.)
Cheerleading – Brittany Angers (Danvers,
Mass.)
Women's Cross Country – Lundberg
Men's Cross Country – Sam Tarrant
(Cleverdale, N.Y.)
Golf - Lantz
Ice Hockey – Kent Honeyman
(Marietta, Ga.)
Women's Lacrosse – Sherry Darrell (Bow,
N.H.)
Men's Lacrosse – Eric Gunst (Exeter,
N.H.)
Women's Soccer – Ariel Teixeira (Warren,
R.I.)
Men's Soccer - Kentish
Softball – Elena Anderson (Salem, Wis.)
Women's Tennis - Chandronnait
Men's Tennis – David Spaggiari (Manizales,
Colombia)
Volleyball – Allison Murphy (Montague,
Mass.)
