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Chapin, McCurdy and Vogel Named to ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Team
Nov. 2, 2007
BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins seniors Johanna Chapin (Madison, WI/Madison West) and Cassandra Vogel (Laurel Hollow, NY/Cold Spring Harbor) along with junior Chrissy McCurdy (Mountainside, NJ/Governor Livingston) were named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District women's soccer teams. Chapin earned first team honors and advances to the national ballot. McCurdy and Vogel earned third team honors for their actions both on and off the field.
Chapin earned academic all-district honors for the first time in her career. The senior defender has started all 18 games this season and recorded her first career goal against Washington and also has three assists so far this season. Chapin is a key member of the defense that has allowed just 0.78 goals per game this year. She is a Dean's List student with a 3.64 GPA majoring in public health. Chapin is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and serves as a student leader for both the Hopkins Christian Athletes and University Baptist Church. She interned at the Hispanic Apostolate in Baltimore, teaching english as a second language. Last summer Chapin studied abroad in the Dominican Republic and served as an intern on the HIV ward of the hospital providing information to pregnant HIV positive women for prevention education.
Vogel earned academic all-district honors for the first time in her career. The defender has started all 18 games of her senior season and has three goals including the game-winning goal against Dickinson. Vogel has played a key role for a defense that has 10 shutouts to its credit this season and allowed just 0.78 goals per game. She is a Dean's List student with a 3.77 GPA majoring in international relations and is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Over the summer she interned for the American Friends Service Committee, working on an exhibit called Eyes Wide Open. The exhibit was a memorial to the soldiers that died in the Iraq War. Vogel traveled with the exhibit and helped maintain it, she also created a flyer on Alternatives to Violence that travels with the exhibit.
McCurdy is an academic all-district selection for the first time in her career. The junior midfielder has started all 18 games for the Blue Jays this season. She scored a goal and has two assists to her credit this season. McCurdy is one of three team captains for the Blue Jays and both of her assists this season were on game-winning goals. McCurdy is a Dean's List Student with a 3.66 GPA majoring in international relations. She serves as a spanish tutor on the Hopkins campus and works as a monitor in the athletics center. McCurdy has worked as a mentor to middle school children and this summer did an internship at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. While working for the organization, which defends first amendment rights on college campuses, she helped found the Campus Freedom Network.
The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Athletes named to the first team qualify for the national ballot, with the national team due to be announced on November 19. To be nominated for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 or higher cumulative grade point average and be a starter or significant reserve.
Chapin and the rest of the Blue Jays return to action this weekend at the Centennial Conference Tournament. The Blue Jays will begin their title defense on Saturday night at 5 p.m. by hosting Gettysburg College. The winner of that game will advance to Sunday's title game to face the winner of the other semifinal between Ursinus and Swarthmore.
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