Men's Hockey | 7/1/2009 2:41:22 PM

HAVERHILL, MA -- The Atlantic Hockey Association announced the 2009 All-Academic squad on Wednesday afternoon. RIT placed a league-high 22 players on this year's all-academic squad led by Anton Kharin (Twin Lake, Mich./Bay State Breakers) (Twin Lake, MI) who was named to the AHA Academic All-Star Team.

Kharin, who graduated from RIT in three years, was awarded the Ellingson Award in early May at RIT's awars banquet. The Ellingson Award honors a RIT student-athlete for their academic and athletic excellence.

To qualify for the Atlantic Hockey All-Academic Team an individual must post a 3.0 grade point average or higher in all of the academic periods during which his team was actively competing. Atlantic Hockey's Top Scholar Athlete is an award given annually to the player or players who achieves the highest grade point average over the course of the academic semesters of competition.

The men's hockey team posted a team GPA of 3.37 which was fourth highest amongst all intercollegiate athletic teams at RIT. It was the second highest men's team GPA behind the men's tennis squad. Among the honorees eight were three-time honorees while three are two-time honorees.

2009 RIT All-Academic Honorees:
# Brent Alexin (West Seneca, NY/) (Jr, F, West Seneca, NY)
Tyler Brenner (Linwood, Ontario/) (Fr, F, Linwood, ON)
Riley Clark (Saskatoon, Sasakatchewan/Melfort Mustangs) (Fr,D, Saskatoon, SA)
Mark Cornacchia (Unionville, Ontario/) (Fr, F, Unionville, ON)
# Matt Crowell (Kelowna, British Columbia/Williams Lake Timberwolves) (Jr, F, Kelowna, BC)
Jared DeMichiel (Avon, CT/) (Jr, G, Avon, CT)
Trevor Eckenswiller (Lions Head, Ontario/) (Fr, D, Lions Head, ON)
@ Andrew Favot (King City, Ontario/) (So, F, King City, ON)
Chris Haltigin (Oakville, Ontario/) (Fr, D, Oakville, ON)
Mike Janda (Glen Ellyn, IL/) (So, F, Win?eld, Il)
# Anton Kharin (Twin Lake, Mich./Bay State Breakers) (Jr, F, Twin Lake, MI)
Scott Knowles (Riverside, Ontario/) (Fr, F, Riverside, ON)
Stevan Matic (Burnaby, British Columbia/) (Jr, F, Burnaby, BC)
Al Mazur # (Jr, D, Burnaby, BC)
Tyler Mazzei (Kelowna, British Columbia/) (So, F, Kelowna, BC)
@ Sean Murphy (Owatonna, MN/) (So, F, Rochester, MN)
# Jesse Newman (Kelowna, British Columbia/Trail Smokeeaters) (Sr, F, Westbank, BC)
# Bobby Raymond (Lucknow, Ontario/Owen Sound) (Sr, D, Lucknow, ON)
# Dan Ringwald (Oakville, Ontario/) (Jr, D, Oakville, ON)
@ Jan Ropponen (Espoo, Finland/) (So, G, Espoo, Finland)
# Brennan Sarazin (Nepean, Ontario/Nepean Raiders) (Sr, F, Nepean, ON)
Dan Spivak (Fr, D, Thornhill, ONT)

@ - Two-Time Honoree
# - Three-Time Honoree
$ - Four-Time Honoree