Carapcea Named America East Conference Scholar-Athlete in Women's Tennis
7/23/2008
Cambridge, Mass.-Rising senior tennis standout Cornelia Carapcea was selected as the America East Conference Scholar-Athlete in the sport of women’s tennis for the 2008 season.
Carapcea, a junior, was a third-team Academic All-America selection by ESPN The Magazine and CoSIDA. She has been a second-team All-America East selection in both singles and doubles each of the past two seasons. Carapcea posted a 12-3 record at No. 4 singles this spring and won 30 total matches on the year en route to being chosen her team’s co-Most Valuable Athlete. Carapcea, who has a perfect 4.00 grade-point average in financial economics and information systems, was named to America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll in 2006 and 2007 and has earned Dean’s List honors in all of her six semesters at UMBC.
Nine student-athletes that participated in spring sports for the 2007-08 academic year were named America East Scholar-Athletes on Tuesday afternoon. Albany’s Steve Ammann (Putnam Valley, N.Y./Putnam Valley) and New Hampshire’s Michaela Hardy (Reading, Mass./Reading) earned the honor for men’s and women’s lacrosse, while Stony Brook’s Michael Stephan (Patchogue, NY/Patchogue-Medford) and Maine’s Ashley Waters (Amesbury, Mass./Amesbury) took home accolades in baseball and softball, respectively. Hartford’s Juliana Carrillo (Cali, Colombia /Colegio Bolivar) earned scholar-athlete recognition in golf for the third straight season, while Stony Brook’s Ilan Shvartz (Haifa, Israel/Ironi Tet) and UMBC’s Cornelia Carapcea (Constanta, Romania/ C.N. Mircea cel Batran) garnered recognition in men’s and women’s tennis. New Hampshire’s Jordan Horwitz (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township) and Vermont’s Carmen Lagala (Montpelier, Vt./Montpelier) rounded out the scholar-athlete honorees, as the men’s and women’s track & field selections.
The Scholar-Athletes were members of teams in the nine championship sports which America East offered in the spring season including baseball, women’s golf, men’s and women’s lacrosse, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field. Member institutions of America East Conference for the 2008 spring season included University at Albany, Binghamton University, Boston University, University of Hartford, University of Maine, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), University of New Hampshire, Stony Brook University and University of Vermont.
A committee of athletic administrators and NCAA Faculty Athletics Representatives chose an honoree in each of the nine spring championship sports. Each America East Scholar-Athlete was a starter or prominent reserve and carries a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.20.
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