Ciampini a candidate for Senior CLASS Award

by Ryan Fay

Union senior forward Daniel Ciampini was named one of 20 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award in men's hockey on Wednesday.

The award is given annually to an NCAA Division I senior student-athlete in ten different sports for excellence on and off the ice.

Ciampini, who has also been nominated for the Hobey Baker Award, leads the nation in goals with 17 and is one point away from 100 for his career.

Ciampini

The Concord, Ontario native has been involved in several community-related endeavors at Union. He has assisted with Union’s “Helping Hands” neighborhood litter cleaning project, helped serve Thanksgiving dinner at a local YMCA Residential Center, and has participated in a reading program with elementary school students. He also began a program with a local hospital to help give young cancer patients a chance to go to a Union hockey game.

An economics major with a 3.31 grade-point-average, Ciampini has been named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team three straight seasons

The 20 candidates will be cut to 10 finalists later in the season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will pick one candidate who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.

The Senior CLASS Award winner will be announced during the 2015 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four, which will take place April 9-11 in Boston.

The other candidates are Austin Czarnik, Miami University, Chad Demers, Air Force Academy, Tanner Fritz, Ohio State University, Spiro Goulakos, Colgate University, Zach Hyman, University of Michigan, Tanner Kero, Michigan Technological Univ., Adam Krause, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth, Matt Lorito, Brown University, Mark MacMillan, University of North Dakota, Nick Mattson, University of North Dakota, Ross Mauermann, Providence College, C.J. Motte, Ferris State University, Mike Paliotta, University of Vermont, Andrew Prochno, St. Cloud State Univ., Kyle Rau, University of Minnesota, Peter Schneider, University of Notre Dame, Clay Witt, Northeastern University, Cody Wydo, Robert Morris University, Oleg Yevenko, Massachusetts.

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