July 3, 2012

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - The Navy men's track and field program earned 31 selections to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, the conference office recently announced. Student-athletes needed a grade-point average of at least 3.20 during the 2012 spring semester and be a member of the track and field team during the indoor or outdoor season to earn a spot on the academic honor roll.

The 31 honorees are just one shy of Bucknell's league-best 32. Six Navy student-athletes posted a 4.0 GPA in the spring semester.

Recent graduate Cody Rome (Eagle, Idaho) highlights Navy's list of selections after earning CoSIDA Academic All-America Second-Team honors for the second straight year. Rome earned a 3.88 GPA in the spring and graduated with a 3.58 cumulative GPA as an applied mathematics major. This is Rome's fourth selection to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.

Rome was also chosen as the Patriot League's Indoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year this year for the second consecutive year after winning both the 3,000m and the 5,000m titles at the indoor league meet.

Recent graduate and James Pearson (Bloomfields, Mich.) earned a third career academic honor roll selection, as did junior Kolton Kempel (Lena, Ill.) and recent graduate Fleet White (Boulder, Colo.).

Recent graduate Michael Sheehan (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), sophomore Brett Bogaard (Pella, Iowa) and junior Christopher Galvin (Austin, Texas) all received their second career nomination.

Bogaard and Galvin each posted a 4.00 GPA this spring, as did freshman Tom Buffone (Freehold, N.J.), sophomore Jeremy Cadiente (Beech Island, S.C.), junior Jordan Gruber (Grove City, Pa.) and freshman Jacob Fox (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

Two of Navy's honorees competed at the NCAA's East Regional Championship this past spring. Rome placed 23rd in the 5,000m and Ken Bunnell (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) placed 22nd in the 3,000m steeplechase.

Navy placed second at both the Patriot League's Indoor and Outdoor Championships and defeated Army in the Star Meet in both the indoor and outdoor season.

Navy's 2012 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll Selections
Name            	Cl. 	Major           	GPA 
Brett Bogaard **	So. 	Quantitative Economics 	4.00
Tom Buffone     	Fr. 	Physics         	4.00
Ken Bunnell     	Sr. 	Ocean Engineering 	3.47
Jeremy Cadiente 	So. 	Physics         	4.00
Drew Calcagno   	Fr. 	Economics       	3.80
Kyle Davis      	Fr. 	Ocean Engineering 	3.28
Matthew Deisher 	Fr. 	Ocean Engineering 	3.80
Thomas Delaney  	Fr. 	History         	3.28
Max Dunn        	So. 	Ocean Engineering 	3.30
Jacob Fox       	Fr. 	Chemistry       	4.00
Christopher Galvin ** 	Jr. 	Mechanical Engineering 	4.00
Jordan Gruber   	Jr. 	Ocean Engineering 	4.00
Jeremy Haney    	Sr. 	Ocean  Engineering 	3.67
Daniel Hibert   	So. 	Aerospace Engineering	3.84
Kolton Kempel ***	Jr. 	History (Honors)	3.76
Ryan Kochert    	So.  	Systems Engineering  	3.38
Chris Maligsa   	Fr. 	Operations Research 	3.24
Eamonn McCarey  	So. 	History         	3.21
Andrew Mighty   	So. 	Mathematics      	3.56
Ryan Pajor      	Fr. 	Quantitative Economics 	3.24
James Pearson ***	Sr. 	English         	3.80
Derrick Petett  	So. 	Mechanical Engineering 	3.44
Cody Rome ****  	Sr. 	Applied Mathematics 	3.88
Kyle Satterwhite	Jr. 	Economics       	3.22
Joshua Shaw     	Jr. 	Applied Mathematics  	3.56
Michael Sheehan **	Sr. 	Ocean Engineering 	3.56
Jeramy Triplett 	Fr. 	English         	3.61
Josh Werling    	Fr. 	Oceanography    	3.56
Fleet White *** 	Sr. 	Economics       	3.65
Andrew Wondolowski 	Jr. 	English         	3.53
Brian Zitterkopf 	Sr. 	History         	3.33
** - two-time honoree; *** - three-time honoree; **** - four-time honoree