Stonehill College (Easton, Mass.) senior Derek Ivey, of Newtown, was a finalist for a Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Saint Anselm lacrosse player Joseph Hartigan was recognized when the award was given on June 7.

Eligibility requirements for nomination are that a student-athlete must be in their final year of athletic eligibility, graduating with a degree in May (unless in a master’s program), must be enrolled in a full-time course load and must have a minimum final cumulative grade point average of 3.30. A committee made up of faculty members and athletic administrators conducts voting for the awards.

Ivey, who received Stonehill’s Edward E. Martin Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year award this spring, graduated with a 3.94 cumulative grade point average and a bachelor’s degree in economics. The National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist and Hampshire Honor Society member earned the NE10 Elite 24 Award this winter for having the highest cumulative grade point average among all NE10 football student-athletes. He is the third College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-American in program history at Stonehill and the first football student-athlete to earn first team honors, having also collected CoSIDA Academic All-District first team and NE10 Academic All-Conference accolades in 2019.

He is a two-time Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award recipient and been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll, Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and dean’s list all eight semesters at the college to date. He received NE10 Academic Excellence status three semesters for having a perfect 4.0 GPA, to go with Academic Distinction Status four semesters with a GPA between 3.50 and 3.99. Ivey has been inducted into the Omicron Delta Epsilon and Lambda Epsilon Sigma academic honor societies, been selected as the economics department’s outstanding senior and is a two-time St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, medal recipient for having the highest GPA on the football team.

Ivey is a CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team selection for the second straight year. He’s up for Academic All-America again, which will be announced next month.

Ivey served as a teaching assistant at Boston College during the summer of 2020, for two courses, Empirical Money and Banking, and Monetary Policy. He was also a TA at Stonehill during the fall 2020 semester for Money & Banking. Ivey managed an asset portfolio that outperformed the S&P 500 when comparing annualized returns as part of semester-long portfolio projects. He has also volunteered his time at My Brother’s Keeper in Easton, delivering food to families in need throughout the area.

A four-year member of the Stonehill football team, Ivey started all ten games for the Skyhawks at right tackle in 2019, part of an offensive line that blocked for the top-ranked offense in the NE10 with a Conference-best 415.8 yards per game (21st nationally), including 193.7 rushing yards (second NE10) and 222.1 passing yards per game (fourth). Stonehill ranked second in the NE10 for pass efficiency (141.04) and fewest sacks allowed (1.60/game) and the line blocked for the program’s first Harlon Hill Trophy candidate who set program records for rushing yards (1.513) touchdowns (16), total touchdowns (18), scoring (108 points) and all-purpose yards (1,611).