Garlock and Peters Named COSIDA Academic All-Region

BEVERLY, Mass. – Two members of the Endicott women's soccer team have been selected to the 2012 CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-District First Team for their achievements both on and off the field.

Seniors Chelsea Garlock (Meriden, Conn.) and Caitlin Peters (Salem, N.H.) were each tabbed with the honor and are both now eligible to be considered for Academic All-America status, which will be announced later this month. The two were named as members of the Division III squad from District I, which includes all schools from Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire, as well as from the northeast provinces of Canada.

CoSIDA, which began its recognition of NCAA scholar-athletes in the 1950's, has honored more than 15,000 deserving athletes across all divisions in 12 sports.  To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a starter or a key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. 

Garlock, a senior forward, has appeared in all 20 games for the Gulls this year, scoring ten points on five goals and was named to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Second Team for the second consecutive year. She is a sports management major and a member of the Endicott Sports Management Club, while participating in internships at Tracs, Inc., where she organized various 5k events, and at the Center of Southwest Florida Golf Tournament. Garlock has served as an administrator and soccer coach at SoccerPlus Camps in Hartford, Conn., where she oversaw over 250 campers, and has worked creating advertisements and editing videos for the Meriden Record-Journal. On the community service front, she has joined with her fellow Endicott soccer teammates to raise over $5,000 for Relay for Life.

Peters, a two-time CCC Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-Conference, has anchored a back-line that has posted ten shutouts in 2012, and also scored the first goal of her career this year against Nichols. Peters is graduating with a major in physical education and she has been active in coaching and youth sport, serving as a counselor at both Precision Soccer and Endioctt Sports Mania Camps. She is a member of the Endicott Youth Sports Trust and recently travelled to London as an ambassador for global sports. She has coached soccer for Beverly youth, walked a marathon's amount of laps at Relay for Life and had internships at Provident Bank and in the Physical Education department of Lancaster Elementary Schools.

Both players are serving as co-captains of the squad in their finals season wearing the Blue and Green.

Garlock and Peters become the second and third players to receive this honor, following last year's achievement of Colleen Pepin. The two will hope to duplicate Pepin's continued success, as she went on to garner a spot on the Academic All America Second Team.