April 20, 2001
Notre Dame, Ind. – For the fifth consecutive season, the Notre Dame hockey player has been selected to the Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Team.
Senior left wing Dan Carlson (Edina, Minn.) was a third team selection to the men’s squad. He was joined by women’s soccer players Vanessa Pruzinsky (So., Trumbull, Conn.) and Meotis Erikson (Kennewick, Wash.) as the three Notre Dame student-athletes selected to the fall-winter at-large team.
Carlson’s selection to the men’s team gives Notre Dame the only Division I hockey program to have a player selected to the team in each of the past five seasons. He joins former Irish hockey standouts, Steve Noble (second team `96-’97, first team `97-’98), Forrest Karr (second team `98-’99) and Andy Jurkowski (third team `99-’00) as past selections to the team.
Notre Dame ranks second all-time among Division I schools with 126 Academic All-American selections, with those recipients coming from 22 different sports. In the last two-plus academic years alone, Notre Dame has totaled 20 Academic All-Americans from 13 different sports.
The Academic All-America Fall-Winter At-Large teams are chosen from student-athletes participating in nine fall and winter sports (cross country, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, rifle, skiing, soccer and swimming). The team is selected in voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Carlson owns a 3.49 grade point average with a double major in finance and computer applications. He has been named to the Dean’s List in five consecutive semesters at Notre Dame. He is also a member of the prestigious Academic Honors Program at Notre Dame that pairs top student-athletes with faculty mentors.
On the ice, Carlson led the Notre Dame hockey team in scoring with 17 goals and 25 assists for 42 points which ranked him ninth among all scorers in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The senior left wing owns the school record for games played (158) and finished his Notre Dame career ranked 20th on the all-time scoring list with 52 goals and 80 assists for 132 points. Carlson was an honorable mention all-CCHA selection and was named to the league’s eight-man all-academic team.
The men’s at-large team consisted of 15 players on the first team and 16 on both the second and third teams. Along with Carlson, eight other Division I hockey players were named to the at-large team including the Verizon Academic All-America of the Year, North Dakota goaltender Karl Goehring.