Casertano Earns Academic Honor

May 28, 2008

Yale senior lacrosse player Tyler Casertano has been named a second-team academic All-American by ESPN The Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Casertano, who played in the May 23 USILA North-South All-Star Game at Harvard, has a 3.71 GPA as a history major. He ranked 36th in Division I with 2.93 points per game and 25th with 1.50 assists and was named first-team All-New England and second-team All-Ivy this spring. The Yale attackman led the Blue with 41 points and 21 assists.

Casertano begins work this summer as a sales and trading analyst at Credit Suisse in New York City.

ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District men's at-large teams

District 1 Winners, University Division

FIRST TEAM

Mike Leveille, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYI, Sr, .Delmar, N.Y.,3.87, Accounting

Tim Balise, MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, UNIVERSITY OF, Jr., Wilbraham, Mass.,4.00, Psychology

Andrew Lord, RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEI, Sr., West Vancouver, B.C., 3.99, Management

Juergen Uhl, VERMONT, UNIVERSITY OF, Jr., Mulenbach, Germany, 3.77, Mechanical Engineering

Geoff Rathgeber, HARVARD UNIVERSITYI, Sr, Kensington, Conn., 3.60, History & Literature

Luka Djordjevic, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITYI, Sr., Belgrade, Serbia, 3.93, Finance

Patrick Beverly, U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, Sr., Humble, Texas, 3.90, Economics

Steve Ammann, ALBANY, UNIVERSITY, Sr., Putnam Valley, N.Y., 3.86, Business Administration (Finance/Marketing)

Luther Clement, ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (NY), Sr., Lawrence, Kan., 3.63, English

Mark Anderson, COLGATE UNIVERSITY, Jr., Hastings, Neb., 3.79, Cellular Neuroscience

SECOND TEAM

Tyler Casertano, YALE UNIVERSITY, Sr., Millbrook, N.Y., 3.71, History

Nick Dodge, CLARKSON UNIVERSITY, Sr., Oakville, Ontario, 3.56, Financial Analysis

Mike Ammann, ALBANY, UNIVERSITY ATI, Sr., Putnam Valley, N.Y., 3.87, Accounting

Brady Weissbourd, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Jr., Chicago, Ill., 3.65, Human Evolutionary Biology

Colin Greening, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, So., St. John's, Newfoundland, 3.83, Undeclared

Jordan Leen, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Jr., Soddy Daisy, Tenn., 3.23, Nutritional Sciences

Mike Gartner, BROWN UNIVERSITY, Jr., San Jose, Calif., 3.59, Applied Mathematics

Alexandre Parent, SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY, Sr., Boisbriand, Quebec, 3.69, Business

Bryce Hollweg, U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, Sr., Langley, British Columbia, 3.6, Management

Andrew Loewen, CANISIUS COLLEGE, So., Winnipeg, Manitoba, 3.94, Business Entrepreneurship

Montek Mayal, COLGATE UNIVERSITY, Jr., New Dehli, India, 3.85, (double) Computer Science and Mathematics

Ryan Sheatsley, RHODE ISLAND, UNIVERSITY OF, Sr., Allentown, Pa., 3.88, Mechanical Engineering