JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Senior Bill Feehan (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro) of the baseball team and sophomore April Gutierrez (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson) of the women's cross country and indoor/outdoor track and field team headline 38 New Jersey City University student-athlete named to the 2019-20 New Jersey Athletic Conference All-Academic Teams announced on July 1.
 
Feehan and Gutierrez were named First-Team Academic All-NJAC while senior Mike Almeida (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) of the men's soccer team and junior Dulce Almonte (Jersey City, NJ/Snyder via County Prep) of the softball team each were selected Second-Team Academic All-NJAC. Additionally, 34 other Gothic Knights were named Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC.
 
To be eligible for the Academic All-NJAC teams, a student-athlete must be a sophomore, junior or senior who has competed in a conference-sponsored sport while achieving a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20. First and second-team selections were made by each of the league's 10 full-member institutions.
 
The NJCU baseball team led all Gothic Knight teams with 10 selections, followed by the men's soccer team with nine selections. The men's cross country and track and field teams placed six on the Academic All-NJAC squad while women's cross country and track and field had three selections. All 15 NJCU athletic teams that compete as members of the NJAC had at least one student-athlete earn a spot on the All-Academic Team.
 

BILL FEEHAN
For the fourth consecutive season, a member of the baseball team was named First-Team Academic All-NJAC. Feehan earned Academic All-NJAC honors for the third consecutive season, taking home First-Team honors after being chosen Second-Team Academic All-NJAC in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Feehan earned the NJCU Presidential Individual Academic Achievement Awards for the second consecutive year this season, achieving a 3.95 GPA while majoring in Fire Science with a minor in General Business. Feehan became just the fourth NJCU male to win the award in consecutive years. He earned a perfect 4.00 GPA in five of eight semesters at NJCU (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 and Fall 2019, Spring 2020). 
 
A four-year starting left fielder and designated hitter for head coach Jerry Smith, in 90 career games (including 87 starts), he finished his career with 87 hits, a .286 batting average and a .424 on-base percentage, including 61 walks and 17 hit by pitch. He scored 58 runs and drove in 48 RBIs, adding 19 extra-base hits—15 doubles, one triple and three home runs. Feehan missed most of his junior season with a hamstring injury and his senior season was cut short after six games due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He played the first two games of NJCU's Texas spring trip before returning early to New Jersey to take a fire department placement exam.
 
He would have easily surpassed 100 career hits if not for these setbacks and he finished his career with an average of one hit for every game started. Feehan is among NJCU's all-time leaders in walks. 
 
APRIL GUTIERREZ
Gutierrez becomes the first-ever member of the NJCU women's cross country or track and field programs ever named to the Academic All-NJAC First or Second Teams. She earned Academic All-NJAC honors for the second time after being chosen Honorable Mention last year. A junior academically with a 3.735 GPA while studying Health Sciences, she was a captain of the NJCU women's cross country team that owned a 3.075 GPA thru the fall semester. She has been named to the Dean's List in all six semesters she has been enrolled at NJCU. She specializes in middle distance, distance and relays on the track.
 
MIKE ALMEIDA

Almeida was named Second-Team Academic All-NJAC and earned Academic All-NJAC honors for the second time after being chosen Honorable Mention last year. Almeida, a three-year member of the NJCU men's soccer team and a two-year team captain who twice earned All-NJAC accolades as a Gothic Knight center back, was selected as the 2019-20 recipient of the Thomas M. Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
 
Almeida, who also was the Thomas M. Scholar-Athlete of the Year recipient in 2018-19, became just the third male student-athlete in the 29-year history of the award to be a repeat winner and one of just seven individuals, male or female, to win the award more than once.
 
Academically, Almeida graduated with a 3.55 grade point average while majoring in Marketing. Almeida is a four-time Dean's List recipient—Fall 2017, Spring 2019 and again this semester with a 3.90 GPA in Spring 2020 despite studies moving to a remote learning format midway through the semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
On the field, Almeida played 50 games as a Gothic Knight since transferring from Rutgers, Almeida was a two-time All-NJAC honoree, taking home Second-Team All-NJAC distinction in Fall 2019 after being tabbed Honorable Mention All-NJAC as a junior in 2018 and a one-time NJAC Defensive Player of the Week in 2018.
 
DULCE ALMONTE
Almonte earned Second-Team Academic All-NJAC honors with a 3.70 GPA while studying Criminal Justice with a minor in National Security Studies. She earned Academic All-NJAC honors for a second time after being chosen Honorable Mention last year.
 
The 2020 recipient of the New Jersey City University The Rising Knight Award, she has been named to the NJCU Dean's List in each of her first six semesters as a college student, including a 4.00 in Spring 2020. She is also a member of the NJCU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
 
On the field, Almonte, NJCU's starting third baseman this year and shortstop in 2019, is a two-time NJCU Athlete of the Week selection in her career who has played in all 79 games since she joined the program in 2018. Almonte was honored with the 2020 Softball Most Improved Award.
 
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering spring sports across the nation, she was hitting .519 with 14 hits in 27 at bats with 12 runs and five RBIs in seven games. She had a .630 slugging rate with a double and triple. She owned a .935 fielding percentage with just two errors at the hot corner.
 
In three abbreviated seasons she is a career .291 hitter in 79 games (77 starts) with 55 hits, 31 runs, 20 walks and 12 RBIs. She has improved each year in all aspects of her game. After batting .169 as a freshman in 2018, her batting average jumped an incredible 140 points to .309 as a sophomore and another 210 points as a junior (.519).
 

Season	Name	Year	Sports(s)	Academic Team
2019-20	Bill Feehan (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro)	SR	Baseball	First-Team Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	April Gutierrez (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson)	SO	Women's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	First-Team Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Mike Almeida (Kearny, NJ/Kearny)	SR	Men's Soccer	Second-Team Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Dulce Almonte (Jersey City, NJ/Snyder via County Prep)	JR	Softball	Second-Team Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Orlando Alcantara	SO	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Samuel Ansah (East Orange, NJ/Newark Tech)	SO	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Krista Bartko (Edison, NJ/Edison)	SO	Women's Volleyball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Chris Bergalowski (Bayonne, NJ/Bayonne)	JR	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Joe Burgos (Hackensack, NJ/St. Benedict's Prep)	SR	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Roger Campbell (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson)	SO	Men's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Dominick Castellano (Jersey City, NJ/Hudson Catholic)	SO	Men's Volleyball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Leo Colon (Carteret, NJ/St. Anthony (Jersey City))	SO	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Mia Crimaldi (Bayonne, NJ/Bayonne)	SO	Women's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Matthew Davis (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson)	SO	Men's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Shakeem Gipson (Newark, NJ/Technology)	JR	Men's Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Kathy Gutierrez (Jersey City, NJ/McNair Academic)	SO	Women's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Jeff Haddock, Jr.	SR	Men's Basketball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Ben Harder (South River, NJ/South River)	SR	Men's Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Emma Herrick (Sayreville, NJ/Sayreville War Memorial)	SO	Softball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Raymundo Hernandez (West New York, NJ/County Prep)	SO	Men's Volleyball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Jefferson Hilaire (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson)	FR	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Tyshon Johnson (Newark, NJ/People's Prep Charter)	JR	Men's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Giovania Jones (Newark, NJ/Columbia)	SO	Women's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Rob Khela (Cairo, Egypt/Alabasia; Alexandria, Egypt)	SO	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Luis Laing (Jersey City, NJ/Dickinson)	JR	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Ayanna Lewis (Willingboro, NJ/Burlington County institute of Technology)	JR	Women's Basketball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Madeline Lopez (Elizabeth, NJ/Hudson Catholic)	SO	Women's Volleyball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Dan McLaughlin (Clifton, NJ/Clifton)	JR	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Natalia Ordonez (Weehawken, NJ/Weehawken)	SO	Women's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Bryan Pagan (Jersey City, NJ/Hudson Catholic)	FR	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Tom Paul (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro)	SO	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	John Pudder (Manalapan, NJ/Manalapan)	SO	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Jose Recinos (Union City, NJ/Union City)	FR	Men's Cross Country and Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Brandon Rivera (Aberdeen, NJ/Matawan Regional)	JR	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Angelo Romano (Cliffside Park, NJ/Cliffside Park)	JR	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Peter Rosenthal (Montclair, NJ/Montclair)	SO	Men's Soccer	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Paul Tannucilli (Old Bridge, NJ/Old Bridge)	SO	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC
2019-20	Ricky Voss (Eatontown, NJ/Monmouth Regional)	SO	Baseball	Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC

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