Five Men’s Soccer Athletes Named CoSIDA Academic All-District

Nov. 2 – (DELAWARE, Ohio) – Five Carnegie Mellon University men’s soccer student-athletes have earned academic honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). To be nominated for the award, a student-athlete must be a starter or significant reserve and maintain a GPA of 3.3 or better. All five honor recipients are seniors and are making their second appearance on the first team.

Carnegie Mellon is part of District II which is comprised of non-NCAA Division I Colleges in the states of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. All five of the honorees will move onto the national ballot for recognition on the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team with hopes of repeating as All-America selections this year.

Last year’s ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America of the Year Jon Hall (Venetia, Pa./Peters Twp.), is making his third appearance on the first team. He currently has a 4.0 and is enrolled in the Tepper School of Business. Hall does numerous things off the field including serving as the senior advisor for Students In Free Enterprise Executive Board. He was the 2008-09 Student-Athlete Advisory Council Co-Chair and helped institute the first-ever Tartan Olympics. Hall spent the 2008 and 2009 summers in the UBS Investment Bank President’s Summer Intern Program where he has secured employment following graduation.

Ricky Griffin (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y./Hastings) is being honored for the third time by the District, making a second appearance on the first team. He was also an Academic All-America second team selection last year. The forward again leads the team and the University Athletic Association in goals (18) and points (44) and carries a 3.81 GPA in business administration. Griffin has also been busy off the field as he’s interned for Forex Capital Markets, LLC., twice and served as the project manager for River Town House, LLC., in 2008. This past summer, Griffin served as a data operations intern for Argus Information & Financial Services, LLC.

Midfielder Ryan Browne (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson), also a business administration major in the Tepper School of Business, has a 3.90 GPA and is third on the team in goals (5) and points (20) and leads the team and league in assists with 10. This is Browne’s second selection to the District first team as he also was named to the Academic All-America second team last season. Browne has spent two summers as an intern for PNC Financial Services Group and was offered a full-time position in Capital Markets Origination with Citigroup.

Also making first team appearances for the second time are defender Austin Good (Lancaster, Pa./Manheim Twp.) and midfielder Keith Haselhoff (White Oak, Pa./McKeesport). Both Good and Haselhoff are enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) where Good studies chemical and biomedical engineering with a 4.0 and Haselhoff majors in mechanical engineering with a 3.84. Off the field, Good was a summer research intern in the Cell Biology and Physiology Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and has been a volunteer at UMPC Shadyside Hospital. Good is also a recipient of two academic scholarships from Carnegie Mellon and is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society and Engineers without Borders.

Haselhoff is a three-year player for Carnegie Mellon and is currently fourth on the team in assists with six. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, Haselhoff was a Dean’s List student at Duquesne University. He was an intern at United States Steel in the operations maintenance department and interned in the maintenance department at Christy Park Industries where they manufacture seamless pressure vessels. Haselhoff also volunteers his time as a TOP Soccer Coach for mentally and physically challenged youth and is a baseball umpire and soccer referee. In 2009, Haselhoff interned at Westinghouse and has since secured a position following graduation as an engineer for the nuclear power plants group.

The men’s soccer team is currently 14-2 this season, mainly due to the leadership and production of these five athletes, with one game remaining on the schedule. The team will conclude the regular season with a road contest at Emory University on Saturday, November 7 at 11:00 a.m.