39 named to NEC Winter Academic Honor Roll; 10 named to Commissioner's Honor Roll

SMITHFIELD, R.I. – A total of 39 Bryant University student-athletes were named to the 2016-17 Northeast Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll, including 10 who earned Commissioner's Honor Roll distinctions.

The NEC Academic Honor Roll consists of student-athletes who have maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or above with 539 student-athletes qualifying for the distinction in the winter of 2016-17. Of those 539 student-athletes, 140 were named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll, an accolade that recognizes those who have maintained a GPA of 3.75 or above.

Men's track and field led the way with six of its own earning the Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction including Kyle Walker, Christopher Wrenn, Brian Salit, Charles Buress, Alexander Evans and Justin Patterson. Nicole Salzano (Women's Swimming and Diving), Morgan Olander (Women's Basketball), Rebecca Nunez (Women's Track and Field) and Jacklyn Sullivan (Women's Track and Field) round out the list of 10 Bulldogs who achieved a 3.75 GPA or higher this winter.

The full list of all Bryant's 39 winter student-athletes named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll is below.

2016-17 Northeast Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll

Men's Basketball (1)

Gus Riley (Nelson, New Zealand/Nayland College)

Women's Basketball (3)

Haley Connors (West Hartford, Conn./Northwest Catholic)

Morgan Olander (Mansfield, Conn./Pomfret School)

Chanel Ramcharran (Pickering, Ont./Dunbarton)

Kelci Abernethy (Chandler, Ariz./Perry)

Domenica Alcala (Cancun, Mexico/The Bolles School)

Lindsey Choate (Upper St. Clair, Pa./Upper St. Clair)

Erin Daly (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial)

Caitlin Dye (Natick, Mass./Natick)

Ashley Lewis (Maple Valley, Wash./Tahoma)

Sara Osinski (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast)

Jillian Rice (Trumbull, Conn./Saint Joseph)

Nicole Salzano (Elmwood Park, N.J./Bergen County Technical)

Carissa Stemen (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast)

Men's Track and Field (15)

Charles Buress (Westborough, Mass./Westborough)

Alexander Evans (Bow, N.H./Bow)

Kyle Ivanov (Ipswich, Mass./Ipswich)

Benjamin Jackson (Enosburg Falls, Vt./Enosburg Falls)

Brian Kraft (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial)

David Lackard (Framingham, Mass./Marian)

Matthew McGovern (Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach)

Harrison McKinlay (Sutton, Mass./Sutton Memorial)

Justin Patterson (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield)

Nolan Ryan (Holden, Mass./Saint Johns High School)

Brian Salit (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk)

Joseph Siuta (Unionville, Conn./Farmington)

Kyle Walker (Colchester, Vt./Colchester)

Hayes Watson (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury)

Christopher Wrenn (Norton, Mass./Norton)

Breann Campise (Tolland, Conn./Tolland)

Emily Cluck (Johnson City, N.Y./Johnson City)

Shannon Gay (Woburn, Mass./Woburn)

Rebecca Goulet-Martel (Montreal, Quebec/Ipswich)

Sarah Lapham (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich Central)

Rebecca Nunez (Greenwich, R.I./East Greenwich)

Meghan Stoltz (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield)

Jacklyn Sullivan (Plymouth, Mass./Plymouth North)

Rebecca Varney (East Longmeadow, Mass./East Longmeadow)

Olivia Weiss (Newton, N.J./Newton)