Albano Makes More Felician History With Capital One Honor
RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Felician College
senior Rob Albano (Pompton Plains, N.J./Pequannock Township) has
been voted to the Capital One Academic All-District Men's
Cross-Country/Track & Field Team for District 1 in NCAA
Division II, as coordinated and selected by the College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Albano becomes the first student-athlete in Felician history to
make the CoSIDA Academic All-District team three times. He will
move on to represent the Golden Falcons on the Division II Capital
One Academic All-America® ballot. Albano was a Third-Team
Academic All-American in 2012.
Albano is the seventh Golden Falcon student-athlete to be named to
an Academic All-District team in the 2012-13 school year, one shy
of last year's college record. A list of all Felician
student-athletes to be so honored can be viewed at
http://www.felicianathletics.com/information/Ac-A-A.
In the 2012 cross-country season, Albano won all four
regular-season races that he finished. He then captured his second
consecutive Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Runner of
the Year award by finishing first in the league championship meet
on Oct. 21 in Philadelphia. Albano capped his career with a
seventh-place result at the NCAA Division II East Regional
Championship.
A 2009 graduate of Pequannock Township High, Albano owns the five
fastest 8,000-meter times in Felician history. He is the CACC's
only male two-time Runner of the Year, and the first Felician
runner to earn all-region honors twice. He also owns a 3.76
grade-point average while majoring in elementary education.
Felician does not sponsor varsity intercollegiate track &
field.
CoSIDA's District I for NCAA Division II is comprised of all
members of the CACC, East Coast Conference, and Northeast-10
Conference.
The entire set of 2013 Capital One Academic All-District Men's
Cross-Country/Track & Field Teams can be viewed at
http://cosida.com/media/documents/2013/5/2013_CO_AAA_Acad_AllDistrict_Mtrack.pdf.
The District 1, Division II honorees are listed below.
2013 CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT
Men's Cross-Country/Track & Field
District 1, NCAA Division II
Rob Albano, SR, Felician
Scott Bolko, JR, UMass Lowell
Daniel Cormier, SO, Stonehill
John Drago, SR, Bentley
Paul Fort, SO, American International
George Georgaklis, JR, Stonehill
A.J. Guerra, JR, Southern Connecticut State
Stephen Leonard, JR, Stonehill
Sean Maguire, SR, Bentley
David Thomas, GR, New Haven
Bryan Wilcox, SO, Stonehill