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American Men’s Soccer Places Six on PL Academic Honor Roll
Verizon Academic All-American Kinney leads squad

Jeff Kinney was one of six Eagles named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.

January 30, 2003

WASHINGTON -- American University’s men’s soccer team placed six student-athletes on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll as announced by the league office today. Senior Jeff Kinney (Fairfax, Va./Robinson) heads the list as he was also named to the Verizon Academic All-America Second Team earlier this year.

To be eligible for the Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must earn a 3.20 grade-point average (GPA) in the fall semester and be awarded a varsity letter in one of the seven league-sponsored fall championship sports. A total of 510 student-athletes were named to the fall Academic Honor Roll.

Kinney earned a 3.32 GPA last semester while majoring in physics. Three of Kinney’s classmates joined him on the Academic Honor Roll. Seniors Kris Kuykendall (Fairfax, Va./Madison) and Larry McDonald (Waddel Village, Trinidad/Presentation) joined Kinney in earning Academic Honor Roll recognition for the second consecutive year. McDonald posted the highest GPA on the team last semester, earning a 3.82 in computer information systems.

Making their first appearance on the Academic Honor Roll was senior Kris Bertsch (Clinton, N.J./Pingry), junior Brett Niebling (Irvine, Calif./Woodridge) and sophomore Charlie Koniver (Miami, Fla./Gulliver Prep).

The Eagles made their second consecutive NCAA appearance in 2002, defeating George Washington, 1-0, in the NCAA First Round game held on AU’s Reeves Field. The trip to the NCAA Tournament was AU’s seventh in school history.

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.