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NEW ORLEANS – Runners Amalia Dorion, Syndey Fogg, Sofia Moukaddem and Amy Pattelena and the Suffolk women's cross country team received acknowledgement for their combined athletic and academic excellence from the U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association. Suffolk's squad garnered the 2024 All-Academic Team Award, while the Rams – Dorion, Fogg, Moukaddem and Pattelena, each earned All-Academic Athlete status from the national organization.
Overall 223 programs earned the honor which has been awarded to squads since 1995-96 to teams that achieve a 3.1 combined GPA on a 4.0 scale, including the most recent-grade period and finish in the top 25-percent of their respective regional championship.
In the classroom, Will Feldman's Rams put together a 3.60 GPA, which is good for 112th on the 220-plus team list. At NCAA Division III East Regionals, Suffolk cruised to a program-best fifth place-performance to meet the athletic qualification.
The distinction is the Rams eighth consecutive and eighth in program history, all of which have come in the Feldman era.
Suffolk is one of six Conference of New England (CNE) programs to take home the recognition as Endicott (3.84), Roger Williams (3.5), University of New England (3.4), Hartford (3.52) and Wentworth (3.67) are featured on the list as well.
For a student-athlete to be considered they must have a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.30 on a 4.0 scale and finish in the top-25 percent of their respective regional championship meet.
Over 400 DIII student-athletes took home the feat with 407 honorees across 137 programs in 2024.
Suffolk saw its largest group of student-athletes receive the accolade as the foursome surpasses the previous mark of three that was set a year ago.
Dorion, a grad student studying marketing, paced the Suffolk contingent on the 6k regional course in the Granite State. She came through the finisher's chute in2 2:26.60 to lock up 14th in the 224-runner race.
Pattelena, a junior that boasts a 3.90 GPA as an undergraduate law major, was three spots behind Dorion at regionals thanks to her time of 22:34.91.
Moukaddem's academic report is of 3.3 GPA as an interior design major. The sophomore sped to 26th at regionals with a 22:55.32 showing.
Fogg finished 38th at regionals with a time of 23:30.0. The grad student's GPA is unblemished, 4.0, as a mental health and counseling major.
Fogg became the second-ever ram to have three USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete nods on her resume, joining Emily Manfra (2018, 2019, 2020). Pattlena picked up her second honor, the fourth Ram with multiple USTFCCCA All-Athlete nods on their resume, while Dorion and Moukaddem appeared on the list for the first time in their Suffolk careers.
Suffolk's quartet made up 66.7 percent (4-6) of the six CNE student-athletes recognized as Endicott's pair of Hannah Risko and Hannah Shepard made the list as well.