Nov. 19, 2009

2009 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All Americans

Center Valley, Pa.—Bucknell senior defender Patrick Selwood and Army senior midfielder Andrew Kydes were honored as CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Men’s Soccer Academic All-Americans, it was announced Wednesday. Selwood was selected to the First Team, while Kydes was a Third-Team pick. A total of 18 Patriot League student-athletes have been named Academic All-Americans since the League was formed in 1990, including seven selections from Bucknell and three from Army.

A First Team All-Patriot League selection in 2009, Selwood was named the Patriot League Tournament MVP over the weekend after anchoring a Bison defense that produced two 1-0 shutouts. That gave Bucknell its second Patriot League championship in the last four years, and the Bison will be back in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday at Princeton.

Selwood has made 62 career starts, including 39 of 40 since the start of last season. He started both NCAA Tournament games as a freshman in 2006 and has been one of the Patriot League's elite defenders ever since.

Off the field, Selwood carries a 3.72 cumulative grade-point average as a double major in philosophy and religion. He is one of the team's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representatives and has served as a Eucharistic Minister with Catholic Campus Ministry. Selwood also founded the Bucknell chapter of St. Sebastian Society, an organization for Catholic student-athletes.

An NSCAA/adidas Scholar All-East pick, a six-time Dean's List honoree and a three-year member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, Selwood has worked with two different law offices during his Bucknell days.

Recognized as the Patriot League Men's Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year last week, the native of Norwalk, Conn., is one of the top cadet-athletes at West Point. A Civil Engineering major ranked 21st in the USMA Class of 2010, he carries a cumulative grade point average of 3.89 which includes a 4.0 academic performance score.

A three-time Dean's List and Patriot League Academic Honor Roll recipient, he also landed honorable mention adidas/NSCAA Scholar Athlete All-Region recognition in 2008. Kydes has garnered the Superintendent's Award for Excellence on three occasions for ranking in the top-five percent of his class academically, physically and militarily, during his time at West Point.

Last spring, he studied abroad at Tecnologico de Monterrey, one of the top engineering schools in Mexico. Four of the five classes he took were taught completely in Spanish. He is also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi national collegiate honor society.

This past summer, he was commended by West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Franklin Hagenbeck for serving as the Close Quarters Combat Commander during cadet basic and field training. He was responsible for teaching over 2,500 incoming freshmen and rising sophomores the combatives curriculum along with supervising 30 instructors. Kydes was a squad leader in his company during the 2008-09 academic year, charged with guiding six freshmen and sophomores in their military, physical, academic and moral-ethical development.

Kydes was a consistent starter for the Black Knights over the last four years, playing in every single game since arriving at West Point. One of the team's two starting central midfielders for the past three years, he earned a letter during all four years with the squad, finishing with six career points on two goals and two assists.

In order to be eligible for Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore, maintain a 3.30 or better cumulative GPA and be a starter or key reserve on his/her team.