CSC Academic All-District® Release (At-Large Sports)
Junior Vinny DiLeo (men's lacrosse), junior Shane Epstein-Petrullo (men's lacrosse), junior Tyler Hilbert (men's golf), senior Tucker Joseph (men's lacrosse), and junior Henry McMahon (men's lacrosse) were among the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® honorees for the men's at-large contest, as announced by the organization on Tuesday afternoon.
DiLeo turned in one of the top offensive seasons in program history, finishing with 42 goals, 28 assists, 70 points, 45 groundballs, and 20 caused turnovers. The second-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference honoree helped Wooster's men's lacrosse program to a school-record 13 wins, a program-best 11-game winning streak, the program's best start to a season at 11-0, and the Fighting Scots were one of the last four unbeaten teams within NCAA Div. III this spring. DiLeo's 42 goals rate as the eighth-most in single-season program history, while the two-time all-conference selection's 70 points were the seventh-most in the program annals and the top total since 1991. DiLeo climbed into the top-10 leaderboard for career points at the College this spring.
The biology major is part of an undergraduate research team within the department, working closely with Dr. Rebecca Williams. The Beta, Beta, Beta biology honor society member volunteers with Goodwill Industries. He also volunteered with the Wayne County Humane Society to help raise funds for a new fence and was a youth lacrosse clinic volunteer at Hoover High School in 2021.
Epstein-Petrullo entered 15 games as an offensive midfielder this spring and finished the year with five goals, four assists, and 13 groundballs. The junior found the back of the net twice during a 17-11 win over the University of Mount Union.
The statistical and data sciences major interned at Schneider Electric last summer and worked with data scientists to select the most important variables to predict energy demand. He has experience as a STEM Zone intern, tutoring Wooster students in calculus and local elementary and high school students in a variety of mathematics courses. Epstein-Petrullo has research experience studying approaches to dealing with pests in agriculture, teaching certain entities about a rapidly-growing data-filled world, and as a data analyst working with the team's shooting locations and shot results from games and practices.
Hilbert ranked fourth on Wooster's men's golf team with a 79.1 average during the 2022-23 academic year. Hilbert played in 10 events and had two top-five finishes. The junior was tabbed the NCAC Athlete of the Week following a 6-and-5 match play victory over Kalamazoo College on the team's annual spring trip. His 76 at the Baldwin Wallace University Spring Invitational ranked third in a field of 35 and helped vault the junior into the lineup for the NCAC Championships. Elsewhere, Hilbert was fifth at the John DiCillo Invitational, where he carded a 77.
The business economics major is an operations assistant at The Golf Room in Dublin, Ohio. On campus, Hilbert is a member of the Jenny Investment Club, which manages a portion of the College's endowment. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative heads a seated volleyball tournament in conjunction with NCAA Div. III Week and leads the team initiative for purchasing gifts as part of the SAAC Adopt-a-Family service project. This year, Hilbert studied the plausibility of collectibles as a suitable alternative to investments.
Joseph, a long-stick midfielder on the lacrosse team, played in 17 games this spring and had 23 groundballs, four caused turnovers, and scored his first collegiate goal against Denison University. The four-year key long-stick midfielder, had four groundballs at Kenyon College and had seven outings with at least two.
The economics major evaluated a monetary value of reductions in air quality based on changes in housing prices for his Independent Study. He will be moving back to Colorado and continuing his career as a financial representative at Northwestern Mutual. The alumnus was a college financial representative with Northwestern Mutual last summer. There, he ranked in the top-10 of all Northwestern Mutual college financial representatives in the United States, and achieved sponsorship to begin licensing for numerous certifications. On campus, Joseph was a student athletic trainer, a play-by-play commentator for volleyball livestreams, and was the president of the Wooster ice hockey club team.
McMahon enjoyed a career year, playing in all 17 games. He had career-bests in groundballs (41) and caused turnovers (5). The short stick defensive midfielder had seven groundballs in an 11-7 win at Oberlin College and scooped up five in a contest against Wittenberg University. McMahon logged six games with at least three groundballs.
The Dean's List regular served as one of the team's SAAC representatives. He spent summer of 2021 in the cultural resource management field working at Richard Grubb & Associates, and studied at Sanisera Field School in Menorca, Spain, last summer. The archaeology major volunteers with the Goodwill Service House on campus.
Wooster's Academic All-District® selections are on the Academic All-America® ballot, which is voted on by CSC members in advance of the announcement of the Academic All-America® team on June 21. Starting with the 2022-23 academic year, all eligible nominees submitted by member schools earn Academic All-District® status. Nominees were voted to the Academic All-District® Team in previously years and those winners advanced to the Academic All-America® ballot.