2005-2006 USCAA All-Americans

All-America Selections Honored at Banquet

First Team All-America selections, left to right, Chris Distefano, Harold Reynoso, Kevin Woods, and Virgil Akers. Academic All-America honors went to, left to right, Lukasz Cygan, and William Haufmann of St. Joe’s. Second Team All-America members, l to r, Chris Olaskiewicz, Clark Agnew, Chris Lawes, and Stefan Dunn. All-America Honorable Mention, l to r, Troy Girty, Pat Davis and Bryan Gillian. Coach of the Year Bud Hamilton (Taylor Ft. Wayne) receives his award from ‘05 Coach of the Year Joe Cocozello (St. Joe’s) Athletic Director of the Year John Dyer (VTC), center, recieves his award from '05 winner Mike Fischer (Hesser), left.

Twenty student-athletes from 12 different colleges were named to the 2006 USCAA All-America teams or Academic All-America team in an awards ceremony at the opening banquet of the Division II National Tournament, held Wednesday night at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.

Fourteen of the honored student-athletes play for teams that are in Concord for the USCAA Tournament this weekend. Representing the NHTI Lynx as a member of the All-America Second Team is point guard Chris “Speedy” Lawes of Peterborough, who has been a consistent team leader and high scorer for the Lynx over the past two seasons. Lawes was recently named Most Valuable Player in the Yankee Small College Conference tournament, which the Lynx won.

Named to the All-America First Team were Chris Destefano of St. Joseph’s College of Brooklyn, Kevin Woods and Virgil Akers of Taylor University-Fort Wayne (IN), Harold Reynoso of Hesser College (Manchester, NH), and Kaleb Violette of Central Maine Community College (Lewiston).

Joining NHTI’s Lawes on the All-America Second Team were Clark Agnew of Vermont Technical College, Stefan Dunn of the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, Chris Olaskiewicz of St. Joseph’s College-Brooklyn, and Justin West of Golden State Baptist College (CA).

All-America Honorable Mention certificates were presented to Troy Girty of the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, James Liebowitz of Southern Maine Community College (South Portland), Pat Davis of Hesser College, Bryan Gillian of Vermont Technical College, and Peter Bates of Northern Maine Community College (Bangor).

Five student-athletes also earned Academic All-America status, achieving a 3.5 or better cumulative grade point average as juniors or seniors at four-year colleges or as seniors at two-year institutions. Those honored were Peter Bates of Northern Maine Community College, the only player to receive both academic and athletic All-America recognition; Bradley White and Matthew Klime of Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, and Lukasz Cygan and William Haufmann of St. Joseph’s College-Brooklyn.

NHTI congratulates all the student-athletes honored with All-America status!!!