In what has been a banner fall sports season at UNE, four student-athletes were recently recognized by The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) when Anne Cowles, Ryan Tarr, Ali Trafton and Claire Varner were selected TCCC Senior Scholar Athletes of the Year in their respective sport.
A field hockey player, Cowles owns a 3.91 grade point average as an applied exercise science major. She had seven goals and eight assists during the regular season. The offensive-minded back from Franconia, N.H. had her most productive game at Regis, tallying three goals and a pair of assists.
Tarr, a soccer player, from Hermon, Maine, is a medical biology/medical sciences major with a 3.75 cumulative grade point average. He is president of UNE's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and Utility Officer for the TCCC's SAAC. The two-year captain was one of five players to start all 17 of the Nor'easters' games.
Trafton, a native of Manchester, Maine, carries a 3.86 cumulative grade point average as an applied exercise major. She is a member of the TCCC Academic All-Conference Team and has been a Dean's List student each semester. On the soccer field, Trafton finished the regular season as the Nor'easters co-leader in goals (6), assists (6), and total points (18).
Varner, a volleyball player from Breckenridge, Mich., boasts a 3.78 cumulative grade point average as a history and education double major. She has earned a spot on the Dean's List six consecutive semesters and has been recognized as a member of the TCCC all-academic team, as well as an inductee into the Alpha Chi National Student-Athlete Honor Society. On the court, Varner is a three-time all-conference selection. During the 2009 regular season, she was fifth in attack percentage (.269) among TCCC players and seventh in kills per set (2.43).