BABSON PARK, Mass.— Six Babson College men's student-athletes from three different programs were recognized for their success in the classroom when the College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced its Academic All-District At-Large teams on Tuesday afternoon.
Men's lacrosse senior
Bennett Smith (Lake Oswego, Ore.) was honored for the third year in a row while teammate/junior
Seamus Rooney (Bay Shore, N.Y.), men's ice hockey senior
Will Holland (Charlotte, N.C.) and junior
Jack Berry (Western Springs, Ill.) from men's golf were all named to the CSC Academic All-District At-Large team for the second straight year. Men's ice hockey senior
Egan Schmitt (Schuylerville, N.Y.) and men's lacrosse graduate student
Beau Burns (Washington, D.C.) were recognized for the first time in their respective careers.
The CSC at-large program recognizes the top student-athletes from the sports of beach volleyball, bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, men's volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
A Finance major,
Smith capped off an outstanding career with an award-winning senior season for the Green and White. He earned US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association second team All-America honors as well as New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Player of the Year. He produced a career highs in goals (29), points (62), ground balls (40) and caused turnovers (10) while totaling a team-high 33 assists in 21 games. Smith produced a point in every contest and finished with seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points in five postseason outings.
Just the third player in Babson history to surpass 100 assists, Smith ranks third all-time in helpers (108), sixth in points (189) and 17th in goals (81) to go along with 128 ground balls and 28 caused turnovers in 79 career games.
An Accounting and Finance major,
Rooney earned his third straight All-NEWMAC honor after starting 16 of his 17 games at attack and finishing fourth on the team in scoring with 30 goals and 14 assists for 44 points. He was second on the team with five man-up goals and scored at least one goal in his last 15 games and 16 of 17 overall, including eight goals and seven assists in five post-season games.
The 2024 NEWMC Co-Rookie of the Year and an All-New England selection in 2025, Rooney has started 49 of his 51 career games and has produced 149 points on 96 goals and 53 assists. He is 12th on the program's career points list and ranks tied for 10th on the program's career goals chart.
An Accounting major,
Holland was a first-line defenseman and one of 14 players who saw action in all 27 games last winter for the Beavers. He finished eighth on the team in scoring with 16 points on two goals and 14 assists, leading all blue-liners and ranking fourth on the team in assists. He also registered a +29 plus/minus rating, second best in the Little East Conference.
A four-year veteran with 105 career appearances, Holland skated in all but two games in his career and produced nine goals and 34 assists for 43 points. He ranks in the top 15 in career points by a Babson defenseman going back to the 2001-02 season.
A Finance major,
Berry earned his second straight PING All-Region I honor by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) after averaging 74.28 strokes over 25 rounds this year. He finished under-par a team-best seven times and owns a victory at the season-opening Duke Nelson Invitational as well as five other top-30 finishes.
Berry, who finished the season 128th in the Scoreboard Division III rankings, has a 74.82 stroke average in 49 career rounds. He carded the low round of his career in 2025, a bogey-free 67 that included five birdies in the second round of the Cochran Collegiate in Memphis, Tenn.
A graduate student Business major,
Burns produced an outstanding campaign in his only season for the Beavers after transferring from Bowdoin. He had one of the best seasons in school history winning a program-best 72.4 percent of his face-offs (212-of-293) while scooping up 146 ground balls over 18 games. He ranked second on the Beavers' single-season list in ground balls and third in face-off wins in addition to ranking seventh in Division III in face-off winning percentage and 32nd nationally in ground balls per game (8.11).
In 71 career games between Babson and Bowdoin, Burns won 60.9 percent of his face-offs (522-of-857) and collected 282 ground balls.
A Business major,
Schmitt was a first-line center last winter and one of 14 players who skated in all 27 games for the Green and White. He finished third on the team in scoring with a career-high 24 points on eight goals and a career-high 16 assists, second-most on the team. He produced points in 16 games, including a career-high four points (2g, 2a) in a 4-0 victory over Plymouth State in the LEC Tournament semifinals. He also registered a +18 plus/minus rating, which tied for eighth in the Little East Conference.
A four-year veteran with 94 career appearances, Schmitt produced 27 goals and 29 assists for 56 points for the Beavers, helping the team to two conference tournament finals in his four years.
Since 1952, CSC (formerly CoSIDA) has honored more than 44,000 outstanding student-athletes across the NCAA. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve and maintain a GPA of 3.50 on a 4.0 scale.
