4 Brick Women Earn Stockton Scholar Athlete Honor

GALLOWAY, NJ — Four Brick Township athletes have earned scholar-athlete recognition at Stockton University for the 2016-17 school year.

To earn the scholar athlete honor, athletes must have a grade point average of 3.60 or higher and have earned a minimum of 24 credits, the university said.

Two of the four are members of the women's soccer team: sophomore goalkeeper Nicole Pallante and senior midfielder Allison Reber.

In addition, Nicole Byrne, a sophomore guard on the women's basketball team and Kim Raichelson, a senior attack on the women's lacrosse team also earned the honor.

Raichelson, one of two players who are the first four-year letter winners in the history of the women's lacrosse program, was the student athlete speaker at the Stockton awards program.

"Losing great teammates, changing coaches, 6 a.m. conditioning, hours of practice, long bus rides to away games, criticism from coaches, having a bad practice, hard losses and on top of all that, balancing school work can make any athlete question "is this all worth it?" And the answer every time will undoubtedly be yes," Raichelson said.

In all, 82 Stockton athletes achieved the scholar athlete honor; another 71 were honor athletes, with GPAs of 3.2 or better and a minimum of 24 credits earned.

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