Wyoming, R.I., native earns College’s first Academic All-America pick since 1998

RINDGE, N.H. (June 12, 2003) – Franklin Pierce senior field hockey player Kelly Henry (Wyoming, R.I./Chariho Regional) earned a spot on the 2003 Verizon Academic All-America College Division Women’s At-Large Third Team. The teams are voted on by members of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Henry, who has earned Verizon District I Academic All-America first team honors each of the last two years, earns the first Academic All-America honor in program history and is the first Academic All-American at Franklin Pierce since former women’s soccer standouts Pauliina Miettinen and Pauliina Auveri earned At-Large spots in 1998. Henry is also the first Academic All-District honoree in field hockey history at the College.

Henry is the lone Northeast-10 Conference student-athlete selected to the women’s at-large team from a ballot of Division II and III student-athletes across the country in the sports of crew, gymnastics, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, swimming, water polo, field hockey, lacrosse, tennis, golf and rifle.

Henry was a four-year letterwinner on the Franklin Pierce field hockey team who holds the program record with 11 career assists and also ranks fifth in program history with 25 career points and sixth with seven career goals in 62 career games, which ranks third. This past fall, she ranked fourth on the team with nine points on three goals and three assists in 14 games played for the Ravens. She started every match over the final three years of her career at the College.

Henry, who was Valedictorian of the Class of 2003, is a three-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II All-Academic honoree who earned a 3.99 cumulative grade point average at the College while majoring in environmental science with a minor in chemistry. The 2003 Richard Burns Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the College earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average in all but one semester and was nominated for the Woody Hayes Division II Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. Henry was also inducted into the Alpha Chi National Honor Society.

A member of the Franklin Pierce Honors Council, Henry is an Honors Program Award recipient and has been named to the Dean’s Honor List every semester at the College, completing her graduation requirements a semester early. She has studied at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and completed internships at Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company as well as BETA-Group, a civil engineering firm. She also worked as a research assistant in the environmental science department at Franklin Pierce.

Henry, a USAA All-American Scholar, is a member of the Gold Award Alliance with the Girl Scouts of America and a member of the Shoreline Dance Company. She volunteers her time as a coach at the Rhode Island Field Hockey Summer Indoor League.

The Franklin Pierce field hockey team wrapped up its 2002 season with a 4-10 overall record, 4-6 in the Northeast-10 Conference.