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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – An elite collection of student-athletes were honored today by the Northeast Conference (NEC) as 2019 Winter Scholar-Athlete award winners. Women's indoor track & field senior Eugenie Hue was named the NEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's indoor track & field, while 47 LIU winter student athletes earned NEC Academic Honor Roll, and 11 athletes were named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Hue earns the first yearly academic honor of her career, and is the second LIU student to earn the honor in the past two years, as women's tennis senior Malin Leysen was named the NEC Spring Scholar Athlete of the Year in June of 2018.
All scholar-athlete award winners have compiled a minimum of 60 semester hours at their institution, maintained a minimum cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 and participated with distinction as a member of a varsity team.
Along with the scholar-athletes, the NEC announced its Winter Academic Honor Roll, consisting of 609 student-athletes with a 3.20 or better grade point average, a 1.5 percent increase from 2017-18. There were also 202 student-athletes named to the Winter Commissioner's Honor Roll, recognizing those superior student-athletes with a 3.75 or better grade point average. The Commissioner's Honor Roll figure represents a 8.6 percent increase from a year ago.
LIU Brooklyn senior Eugenie Hue collected women's indoor track and field scholar-athlete honors. Hue was named the Most Outstanding Track Performer (Distance) following wins in the mile (5:03.13) and the 800 meter run (2:14.16) at the NEC Indoor Track & Field Championships in Staten Island. The Cherbough, France native provided the third-place Blackbirds with distance points at the conference meet after posting the NEC's top times in the 400 and 500 meter dashes during regular season competition. She also helped LIU score points in the 4x400 and distance medley relays. Hue has been named to the NEC Academic and Commissioner's Honor Roll lists in each of her two years at LIU. She sports a 3.94 grade point average and majors in Sports Science.
LIU Brooklyn had 11 athletes named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll, led by the women's swimming team, with a season-high five athlete: Amanda Peren, Jacqueline Grabowski, Jodi Hawki, Mackenzie Burnett and Noemie Lacroix-Moreau. Bowling and women's indoor track & field were next, with two each (Kellie Frain and Sarah Florence from bowling, and Stephanie Esogenwune and Eugenie Hue from track). Brandy Thomas from women's basketball and Beresford Sweeney from men's indoor track & field rounded out the honorees.
The Blackbirds had 47 athletes represented on the Academic Honor Roll. Women's swimming led the way, with a season-high 15 athletes honored, which accounts for 88 percent of the team's roster. Men's indoor track and field was next, with 10 athletes honored, while women's indoor track and field had nine athletes on the list. Women's basketball was next, with six selections, while bowling had five athletes on the list, accounting for 71% of the team. Men's basketball added two honorees to round out the group.
Now in its 38th year, the Northeast Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic association consisting of 10 institutions of higher learning located throughout six states. Media coverage of the NEC extends to four of the largest markets in the United States - New York (#1), Pittsburgh (#23), Baltimore (#27), and Hartford/New Haven (#30). Founded in 1981 as the basketball-only ECAC Metro Conference, the NEC has grown to sponsor 22 championship sports for men and women and now enjoys automatic access to 14 different NCAA Championships. NEC member institutions include Bryant, Central Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson, LIU Brooklyn, Mount St. Mary's, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, St. Francis Brooklyn, Saint Francis U and Wagner. Merrimack will join the NEC as a full-time member in July, 2019. For more information on the NEC, visit the league's official website (www.northeastconference.org) and digital network (www.necfrontrow.com), or follow the league on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, all @NECsports.