WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army senior lacrosse defenseman Scott Rosenshein was named a first-team member of the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men’s At-Large squad, as voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), announced Tuesday. He is the first Academic All-America in the history of the Army lacrosse program.
A Chemical Engineering major, Rosenshein is the owner of a 3.99 cumulative grade-point average and ranked 28th out of almost 1,000 cadets in the Class of 2009. An eight-time Dean’s List member, he has received the Superintendent’s Award for Excellence every semester at West Point, which recognizes the top five percent of cadets based on the combination of academic, military and physical grades. He was named the 2008 and 2009 Patriot League Lacrosse Scholar Athlete of the Year and is also a three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll honoree.
The Montclair, N.J. native was one of only 30 cadets, including the first-ever lacrosse player, to be accepted into West Point’s prestigious Scholarship Program, which prepares students who apply for the nation’s most esteemed post-graduate scholarships, including the National Science Foundation Scholarship and the Hertz Fellowship.
Rosenshein was inducted into the Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry Honor Society and the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and also was a recipient of the American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award for academic excellence in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Branching aviation, Rosenshein will head to Fort Rucker, Alabama, for flight school this summer with aspirations of becoming either an Apache or Kiowa helicopter pilot in the Army.
Rosenshein interned at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the summer of 2008 with the Counter-Proliferation Analysis Planning System (CAPS) modeling terrorist scale reactor designs for sulfur mustard. He also previously spent the summer of 2007 interning at GalazoSmithLine, completing a research project focused on the pharmokinetic release profiles of nicotine pills and measuring the rate at which nicotine permeates human skin in order to develop a spray with similar characteristics.
A two-year starter for Army’s nationally ranked defense, Rosenshein and the Black Knights finished third in the Patriot League by holding the opposition to 8.91 goals per game in 2009. He tallied his first career point with an assist in Army’s season-opening victory over VMI, 17-3, on Feb. 14 and finished the season with his first career goal against Penn (May 2). Rosenshein walked onto the team as a freshman and spent his first year at West Point on the junior varsity team. He eventually worked his way into a starting position by his junior year.
Rosenshein wore the number 48 on his uniform in honor of his late grandfather, Lieutenant General Willard Scott, who graduated from West Point in 1948 and went on to a distinguished military career that included serving as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (similar to being president at a civilian university) from 1981-1986.
Rosenshein is the 47th Army athlete to garner Academic All-America honors since 1955 and is one of only 14 first-team honorees. The Men’s At-Large program for Academic All-America includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis, water polo and wrestling.
