March 24

Fulton, Long earn All-American honors

This season they have been called MIAC champions and conference co-players of the year, and now you can call them All-Americans, as Hamline University hockey junior co-captains Dustin Fulton (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Joe Long (Dayton, Minn.) were named 2007-08 Division III All-Americans on Saturday.

The first team All-American squad, released on Saturday in Lake Placid, N.Y. prior to the Division III championships, consists of twelve players – six each from the east and west regions. Fulton and Long were the only MIAC players to be named first team in the west.

A forward, Fulton was first on the team in overall scoring with 50 points (21 goals, 29 assists) in 27 games. During the regular season, he led the MIAC in points scoring (2.00 points per MIAC game) and goal scoring (0.88 goals per MIAC game). He was also third in the conference in assists (1.12 assists per MIAC game).

Defenseman Long was tied for second on the team in scoring with 31 points (19 goals, 22 assists). In MIAC play in the regular season, he led the conference in power play goals with 0.50 per MIAC game. He also finished the regular season tied for second in the MIAC in goal scoring (0.81 per MIAC game) and was the second-highest scoring defensemen in the league with 1.25 points per MIAC game.

The Pipers, who won the MIAC championship for the first time in 60 years, finished the year with an overall record of 16-7-4 and an MIAC record of 11-3-2 while being ranked 15th in the nation in the final USCHO.com Division III men’s hockey poll.

Hamline University belongs to the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, one of the most competitive conferences in the nation. Hamline supports 19 intercollegiate athletic teams for men and women. Find out more about Hamline athletics at www.hamline.edu/hamline_info/athletics.

Creative and innovative teaching and learning attract a diverse student body of nearly 4,600 undergraduate and graduate students to Hamline University. Challenged to create and apply knowledge in local and global contexts, Hamline students develop an individual and community ethic of social justice, civic responsibility, and inclusive leadership and service.

Ranked first in Minnesota among comprehensive master’s universities by U.S.News & World Report, Hamline is also Minnesota’s first university, founded in 1854, and among the first co-educational institutions in the nation.

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