Rocky Hill's Gallo Receives Academic Honors For WPI Track Team

ROCKY HILL, CT - Anthony Gallo of Rocky Hill, has been named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team for his work as a Worcester Polytechnic Institute student-athlete.

Gallo earned a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale after the 2015 fall semester to achieve second-year academic status.

He is a member of the track and field team.

WPI men's track and field accounted for a third of the selections, including four three-time honorees as a total of 48 WPI student-athletes were named Academic All-Conference for the spring season.

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.