Locals in Lehigh football program are shining academically

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/ FROM KEITH GROLLER This came out yesterday, but I wanted to salute Josh Parris (Palisades), Noah Robb (Central Catholic), Billy Boyko (Northampton) and the rest of the members of the Lehigh football program who made the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll for the 2012 season. There were 24 Mountain Hawks in all and Capital One Academic All-American Zach Barket headed the list. Special kudos to Robb, a freshman, who posted the top GPA among the Mountain Hawks in the fall semester, with a 3.94. Amazing. Can't say enough about these kids because the demands of the football program alone would seem to make it tough to keep up academically. Yet, they flourish on the field and in the classroom. Nearly half of Lehigh’s Academic Honor Roll honorees earned Dean’s List distinction with semester GPAs of 3.6 or better. To be eligible for the honor roll, student-athletes must maintain a 3.2 GPA and be listed on the team roster. A total of 169 Patriot League football student-athletes were named to the Academic Honor Roll, including 13 members of the Academic All-Patriot League football team. Colgate wide receiver Chris Looney was voted the league’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year for football last November. And Lafayette had its share of outstanding Academic Honor recipients as well, headed by junior Brad Bormann, who posted a perfect. 4.0 GPA. We're listing their student-athletes below as well: LAFAYETTE'S PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL Justin Adams So. Government & Law, 3.60 Anthony Baker So. English, 3.65 Mike Boles Jr. Economics, 3.43 Brad Bormann Jr. Biology, 4.00 Shane Brady Jr. Government & Law, 3.25 Bobby DePietro Fr. Neuroscience, 3.35 Demetrius Dixon So. Government & Law, 3.60 Mike Duncan So. Mechanical Engineering, 3.52 Case Garner Sr. History, 3.77 Greg Kessel Jr. Economics, 3.60 John Lang Fr. Policy Studies, 3.40 Jason Marshalek Sr. Civil Engineering, 3.60 Jake McTighe Jr. Economics, 3.60 Mike Moralle Fr. Engineering, 3.78 Mike Murphy Sr. Economics, 3.23 Pat Narus Fr. Government & Law, 3.23 Jack Poetzsch Fr. Economics, 3.25 Danton Ponzol Jr. Economics & Policy Studies, 3.50 Mark Ross Jr. Economics, 3.83 Ethan Swerdlow Sr. Mechanical Engineering, 3.33 Alex White Jr. History, 3.40 Neal Zott Sr. Economics & Business, 3.75 LEHIGH'S PATRIOT LEAGUE ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL Name Class Major Semester GPA Zach Barket Sr. Accounting 3.77 Tom Bianchi Sr. American Studies 3.24 D.J. Bourgeois Fr. Arts and Sciences 3.65 Billy Boyko Sr. Mechanical Engineering 3.52 Michael Colvin Sr. Political Science 3.50 Sergio Fernandez-Soto Jr. Political Science 3.27 John Gonos So. Arts and Sciences 3.54 Jerard Gordon Sr. Mechanical Engineering 3.64 Scott Grossnickle So. Accounting 3.88 Cody Haupt Jr. Supply Chain Management 3.82 Ryan James Fr. Engineering 3.22 Cody Kondas Fr. Business 3.27 Kyle Lechner Jr. Finance 3.56 John Mahoney Jr. Business 3.42 Wenner Nunes So. Business 3.30 Josh Parris So. Biology 3.73 Jake Peery Sr. Finance 3.93 Noah Robb Fr. Engineering 3.94 Chris Ruhl Fr. Engineering 3.78 Paul Schroeder So. Bioengineering 3.88 Ryan Spadola Sr. Supply Chain Management 3.54 Matt Stapleford So. Bioengineering 3.24 Lex Utt Sr. Finance 3.49 Mike Vuono Sr. Finance 3.62