WALTHAM, Mass. – Amy Varsell (Burlington, Conn./Lewis S. Mills HS) and John Drago (Avon, Conn./Avon HS), a pair of recent Bentley University graduates who are both two-time Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-America® honorees, have been selected as the 2012-13 Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence award winners for women's and men's outdoor track, respectively.

Varsell, who'll be back at Bentley in the fall to compete in cross country and indoor track while attending graduate school, and Drago are both multiple-time recipients of Sport Excellence awards from the conference. Varsell was recognized for both women's outdoor track and women's indoor track in 2012, and Drago received the 2012 award for men's cross country.

Both were also selected for Academic All-Northeast-10 honors, as was another recent graduate, Caitlin Fahey (Bridgewater/Coyle-Cassidy HS). It's the sixth time that both Drago and Varsell have earned the accolade and the fourth time for Fahey.

All three received Academic All-America honors last month with Varsell, a five-time Division II All-America, making her second straight appearance on the first team, Drago moving up from a 2012 third-team selection to the first team, and Fahey voted to the third team.

Varsell earned her latest All-America award in May with a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo. Her outdoor season also included second-place finishes in both the 800 and 1500 meters at the Northeast-10 Championships.

Drago, who was fifth in the 5000 and ninth in the 1500 at the conference championships this past spring, is the only runner in program history to run the 1500 in under four minutes, the two-mile under ten and the 5000 in less than 15 minutes.

Fahey was a three-time Northeast-10 champion as a senior, doubling in the 800 and 1500 outdoors after breaking the tape in the 1000 indoors. She set outdoor school record in the 1500 (4:29.43) and qualified for the NCAA Championships both indoors and out.

All three majored in corporate finance and accounting, with Varsell and Drago amassing grade point averages exceeding 3.8 to graduate Summa Cum Laude and Fahey finishing above 3.6 to gain Magna Cum Laude honors. Drago also majored in liberal studies in addition to CFA.

Bentley student-athletes earned the NE-10 Sport Excellence awards in six different sports during 2012-13. In addition to the two by Drago and one by Varsell, Weston Zeiner (men's soccer), Matt Michel (golf) and Lauren Battista (women's basketball)  were recognized in their sport.