June 29, 2004

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - Twelve Lafayette track and field athletes have been named to the 2004 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, part of a roster of 140 student-athletes who achieved the honor within the ranks of the eight-team conference.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must earn a 3.20 grade-point average in the spring semester and be awarded a varsity letter in one of the League's six winter or nine spring championship sports.

A total of 806 student-athletes were named to the League's Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll, including 38 with perfect 4.00 GPAs. The Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll includes the sports of men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's and women's indoor track & field, baseball, golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's outdoor track & field, softball and men's and women's tennis.

The Patriot League, an NCAA Division I athletics conference founded on the principle of admitting athletes who are academically representative of their class, is in its second decade of academic and athletic excellence.In the most recent NCAA Graduation Rate Report of student-athletes, the Patriot League ranked FIRST among NCAA Division I conferences.

Adam Callaghan  Fr.     English 3.40Brett Harvey  Sr.     Anthropology & Sociology    3.40Tom Kennedy    Sr.     Economics & Business    3.32Colin McDonough    Jr.     Electrical & Computer Eng.  3.50Christopher Nixon    Sr.     Economics & Business    3.53Kevin Penderghest    Jr.     Mathematics 4.00Matthew Puglisi    Jr.     Chemical Engineering    3.26Jonathan Rowe    So.      Computer Science   4.00Jeffrey Silvan  Fr. Mechanical Engineering  3.35James Strada  Jr.     Economics & Business    3.60Gregory Swiatocha    So. Mechanical Engineering  3.26Matthew Taverna    Jr. Civil Engineering   3.34