Sports Shorts

Monmouth University senior Janine McMillin (a Milltown resident and East Brunswick High School grad) earned Valley National Bank Scholar-Athlete plaudits in the sport of field hockey, as the Northeast Conference office announced its 2005 Valley National Bank Fall Scholar-Athlete award winners. All scholar-athlete award winners must have earned a minimum of 60 semester hours, maintained a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20 and participated with distinction as a member of a varsity team.

McMillin earned the Valley National Bank Scholar-Athlete award for field hockey. She was tabbed to the all-NEC second team in 2005 after tallying three goals and one assist on the season for the Hawks. She is a current member of the U.S. National Indoor Field Hockey team and is also a certified field hockey official. The Monmouth team captain is a member of Kappa Mu Epsilon (national mathematics honor society) and Chi Alpha Sigma (national college athletic society) and is a two-time recipient of the All-American Scholar Award.

A National Merit Scholar, McMillin was also named Monmouth’s Jane Freed Scholar Award winner in 2004 and has been named to the dean’s list every semester since transferring to the school as a sophomore. Involved in a number of community service initiatives, McMillin personally raised $500 for two distinct causes: to donate to a foundation for children with a rare blood disorder, and for needy families in Romania. She traveled to Romania last summer to volunteer at an orphanage and is currently sponsoring a Romanian teenager in an orphanage for a one-year period.

“Janine has been a true role model for our team,” stated head field hockey coach Monica Morgan Levy. “I am thrilled she has received this well-deserved honor.”

McMillin also volunteers at VITAS Hospice Care. She is majoring in secondary math education and has posted a 3.74 grade-point average.