ALBANY, N.Y. – University of Vermont freshman attackman Ben French, a native of Toronto, Ontario, has been named to the 2017 America East All-Rookie Team. Selected by the league's head coaches, the team was announced by America East Wednesday night at its year-end awards banquet.

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French played in all 13 games this past season for the Catamounts, starting all but one contest. In that span, he recorded a team-best 25 goals and ranked second among the group in both assists (11) and total points (36). The economics major also chipped in four caused turnovers and 15 ground ball pickups.
 
He began his UVM career with a six-point night at Furman (Feb. 2), putting home four goals including the game-tying tally with under 15 seconds remaining in regulation. Two days later, French's late-game heroics came out again as the rookie forced overtime at Mercer (Feb. 4). Both of those games culminated with victories for Vermont after the Catamounts battled back from deficits of five. UVM went on to start 3-0, doing so for the first time since 2001.
 
French wrapped up the year averaging 2.77 points per game, which led all rookies in America East and ranks 11th in the country this season among all first-year players.
 
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2017 America East All-Rookie Team
A: Ben French, Vermont
A: Ryan Frawley, UMBC
A: Tom Haun, Stony Brook
A: Mitch Laffin, Albany
A: Jakob Patterson, Albany
A: Cory VanGinhoven, Stony Brook
FO: TD Irelan, Albany
LSM: Zach Barrett, Binghamton
LSM: Dan Mottes, Binghamton
M: Wayne White, Stony Brook