Middlebury, RIT and St. Norbert each placed two players on the first team of the Jofa/ACHA College Division All-Americans announced today.
There were only three repeat winners. RIT’s Jerry Galway was named to the first team for the third time, while Adam Kragthorpe from Wisconsin-River Falls is on the first team for the second straight season. Plattsburgh’s Niklas Sundberg repeats as the East’s second-team goaltender.
Twenty of the 24 players named participated in this year’s NCAA Division III tournament, with 11 advancing to this weekends championships in Middlebury, Vt.
First Team
East
G: Christian Carlsson, Middlebury, SR (Linkoping, Sweden)
D: Matt Dunn, Middlebury, SR (Kent, Conn.)
D: Jerry Galway, RIT, SR (Mississauga, Ont.)
F: Mike Bournazakis, RIT, JR (Toronto, Ont.)
F: Mike Carosi, Bowdoin, SR (Warwick, R.I.)
F: Kurtis Mclean, Norwich (Kirkwood Lake, Ont.)
West
G: Dan Melde, Gustavus Adolphus, SO (Maplewood, Minn.)
D: Adam Kragthorpe, Wisconsin-River Falls, JR (New Hope, Minn.)
D: Jim Underwood, St. Norbert, FR (Ravenna, Ohio)
F: Tony Lawrence, St. Thomas, SR (White Bear Lake, Minn.)
F: Mike Possin, St. John’s, SR (St. Cloud, Minn.)
F: Maris Ziedins, St. Norbert, JR (Talsi, Latvia)
Second Team
East
G: Niklas Sundberg, Plattsburgh, SR (Stockholm, Sweden)
D: Ryan Constantine, Middlebury, SR (Morrisonville, N.Y.)
D: Peter Ollari, Plattsburgh, SR (Agawam, Mass.)
F: Kevin Cooper, Middlebury, SO (Mississauga, Ont.)
F: Jayson Kilcan, Plattsburgh, JR (London, Ont.)
F: Todd Nowicki, Buffalo State, SR (Buffalo, N.Y.)
West
G: Ryan Gill, St. Norbert, SO (Watrous, Sask.)
D: Bruce Leonard, Wisconsin-Superior, SR (Calgary, Alb.)
D: Drew Palmgren, St. Thomas, SR (Blaine, Minn.)
F: Chris Bodnar, St. Norbert, SR (Thunder Bay, Ont.)
F: Chris Hackett, Wisconsin-Superior, JR (Paradise, Newf.)
F: Colin Kendall, Wisconsin-Superior, JR (Calgary, Alb.)
