DURHAM, N.H.—The University of New Hampshire athletic department released the nine names of those being inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 2008. The announcement was made today by UNH Director of Athletics Marty Scarano.
    The inductees will be honored on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 at the Hall of Fame Banquet, which will be held in Huddleston Hall. The event is set to begin at 6 p.m.
This year’s class includes;Ty Conklin ’01 (men’s ice hockey), Grover Daniels ’79 (men’s skiing), Stacy Fimple-Glidden ’96 (Field Hockey), David Gamble ’93 (football), Theresa Redmond-Stevens ’83 (women’s basketball), Mary Beth Sydlowski-Pichette ’92 (women’s soccer), Kate Scanlon-Gehn ’92 (women’s crew), Ian Smith ’99 (men’s swimming), and David O’Connor ’66 (football and hockey), who is the winner of the Leitzel Award.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS— Student-athletes at the University of New Hampshire continue to excel in the classroom and as a result the Wildcats finished second in the running for the 2007-08 America East Academic Cup with an impressive cumulative grade point average of 3.12.  UNH has won the Academic Cup twice, in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.
    The University of Vermont narrowly edged out UNH to take home the hardware with a 3.14 GPA.
    The University of Maine (3.10), Stony Brook University (3.06) and Binghamton University (3.04) were the other institutions in America East to compile grade point averages of 3.00 or better in 2007-08.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Head coach Michael Jackson and his staff announced Monday that the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team will play host to St. John’s University in its first exhibition game of the 2008 season Aug. 14 at 3 p.m. at Lewis Fields.
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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team announced recently that it will host its Soccer FUNdamentals Clinic on July 14-16 from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. on Memorial Field.
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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team has announced that it will hold its inaugural UNH Women’s Soccer Golf Scramble at Pembroke (Mass.) Country Club on July 18 at 1:30 p.m. The proceeds will benefit the women’s soccer program through the UNH Wildcat Soccer Friends.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Head coach Michael Jackson and his staff have announced that space is still available for the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer summer camp that will run from July 13-17.
     The overnight camp, which is open to female athletes entering grades 6-12, will feature individual player development, small- and full-sided games, team concepts of offense and defense, divisions of competition according to grade and specialized goalkeeper instruction.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Senior Nicole Lucey (Keene, N.H.), a back for the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team, has recently been honored for her academic achievements in the classroom.
     Lucey was inducted into both the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Delta Phi Honor Societies, along with being chosen as Student Fellow for the College of Liberal Arts. All such honors were based entirely on her academic success and were awarded through a highly selective process.
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STANDINGS

WESTLAKE, Ohio – The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics recently announced that the University of New Hampshire ranks 81st out of 365 Division I schools in the NACDA Directors’ Cup standings at the end of the winter sport season.
     The Wildcats have amassed 162 points, including the 25 points they tallied during the fall season. The ski team, which stands 11th overall, provided 57 points, while the third-ranked women’s hockey team supplied 55 points and the ninth-ranked men’s hockey team kicked in another 25.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Sophomore Ally Yost (Langhorne, Pa.), a goalkeeper for the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team, will participate in an Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) this summer.
      Yost, a mechanical engineering major with a perfect 4.0 GPA, will be sent to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to work on a project entitled “Electric Thruster Diagnostic Instrumentation” at Cal Tech University in Pasadena, Calif. An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion used in spacecrafts, which creates thrust by the acceleration of ions, rather than other mediums such as the burning of fuel. Yost will participate in the analysis, development and testing of thruster diagnostic instruments used in vacuum chamber testing to assess their affects on spacecrafts.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Julie O'Shaughnessy (Manchester, N.H.) and Ally Yost (Langhorne, Pa.), members of the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team, spent spring break volunteering their time in Louisiana to help rebuild the lives of families who suffered detrimental losses from Hurricane Katrina.
      O’Shaughnessy and Yost joined a number of athletes from both UNH and Franklin Pierce College in an effort to help restore the community of Buras, La. All participants were divided into several groups and given different projects to work on. O’Shaughnessy and Yost helped build a house from the ground up, while others re-shingled roofs, gutted houses and assisted in electrical wiring.
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