Dolny named US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association 2008 Scholar All-American

HOBOKEN , N.J. ― Stevens Institute of Technology alumnus John Dolny ’08 has been named a US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association 2008 Scholar All-American. Dolny was the second leading scorer this season and has the second all-time record for assists at Stevens. In 2005 and 2006 he set the third and fourth most records in Stevens’ history for goals scored in a season. He also was named offensive Most Valuable Player in 2005. In 2008 Dolny was team captain and was named to the All-Empire 8 first team . An All-Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference first-team selection in 2005 and 2006, he also earned first-team honors from the Knickerbocker Lacrosse Conference those two seasons. He was named the Knickerbocker Rookie of the Year in 2005 as well.

Brian Lalli was the first Stevens’ student to win the award in 2004.

“John Dolny is also a natural leader as I observed from his performance in my Leadership Studies Seminar and from various psychological inventories he performed as part of the course work,” said Stevens Humanities Professor Silvio R. Laccetti. “He particularly excelled in team leadership and organization.”

Over the course of his four-year career, Dolny helped lead the Ducks to a combined record of 51-18. Along the way, Stevens won back-to-back Knickerbocker titles and qualified for the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2005 and 2006. Then, in 2007, the Ducks captured their first-ever ECAC Metro Championship.

Laccetti also commented, “When teams were created for research and presentation purposes, one student confided in me that John's team was bound to fail. Instead, his team was the most successful because of his own leadership skills through which he maximized output, maintained focus and sch edu ling and provided encouragement and motivation to those in his group.”

Dolny was a Naval Engineering student and carried a 3.47 GPA into his final semester.

“In academics as in athletics,” Laccetti concluded, “John is a top achiever blessed with natural leadership talents and great intelligence and insight. Of him it can be said truly, ‘He sees the field’."

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