Salve Regina lands 83 on Academic All-Conference Team

Salve Regina has landed 83 student-athletes on the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) 2019-20 Winter/Spring Academic All-Conference Team, which was announced by commissioner Gregg M. Kaye on June 29, 2020.

Six hundred and eleven CCC student-athletes were named to the league’s Spring Academic All-Conference Team. The fall list includes participants from each of the CCC’s member institutions who participated in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s golf, men’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, softball, men’s tennis, and men’s and women’s track and field.

The Academic All-Conference Team consists of any starter or significant reserve who has attained at least sophomore status at start of competition and has maintained an overall minimum GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00. This is the seventh time the honor has been separated into the two seasons of fall and spring.

Included among the honorees were the three winter CCC Scholar-Athlete award winners in their respective sports, including Salve Regina’s Tyler Benjamin ’20, a biochemistry major who won the award in men’s basketball. Benjamin is also a member his All-Conference team.

Due to the cancellation of the spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, no postseason awards were given for any of the conference’s spring sports.

A list of all 83 athletes from Salve Regina can be found here. The full list of Academic All-CCC honorees can be found here.