BROCKPORT, N.Y. -  The Nichols College field hockey program was one of 148 programs to receive the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III National Academic Team Award, which recognizes programs which have earned a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the fall semester of the 2021-22 school year.

Earlier this month, eight Bison – graduate student Liza Phillips, juniors Erin Anthony, Mackenzie Doran, Abigail Karalus, and Hailey Meader, and freshmen Emily LeBlanc, Sophia Venable, and Callie Worthington – on the NFHCA Division III National Academic Squad, which honors student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 or higher through the first semester of the 2021-22 academic year. Doran and Leblanc was later named an NFHCA Division III Scholar of Distinction.

All seven Commonwealth Conference Institutions which sponsor field hockey – Endicott, Gordon, Nichols, Roger Williams, Salve Regina, UNE, and Western New England University – received the award.