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WALTHAM, Mass. – Three student-athletes from the Class of 2021 have been recognized as Bentley University's top senior athletes, Director of Athletics Vaughn Williams announced.

The Outstanding Male Senior Athlete was presented to golfer Tommy Ethier (Nashua, N.H./Bishop Guertin HS) while the recipient of the 2020-21 Outstanding Female Senior Athlete award was women's lacrosse attacker Julia Glavin (Ipswich/Ipswich HS).

The Edward J. Powers Award, which goes to the outstanding senior scholar-athlete, was presented virtually to women's soccer goalkeeper Kat Hassapis (North Reading/North Reading HS).

Ethier, the 2019-20 Player of the Year in the Northeast-10 Conference, has a 73.3 stroke average this season, which is on pace to break the Bentley single season record, and has three of the top five single season stroke averages in program history. In addition, his career average of 74.2 is best in program history.

An accountancy major with a GPA north of 3.6, Ethier has led the Falcons to the NCAA Division II East/Atlantic Regional for the third time in his career. A team co-captain, he's shot ten sub-70 rounds during his career and is a three-time PING Division II All-East Region honoree. Other accolades include three-time All-Northeast-10 and two-time Academic All-Northeast-10.

Glavin, Bentley's leading scorer with 34 goals and eight assists for 42 points, is the second straight lacrosse player to receive the Outstanding Senior Athlete Award, following in the footsteps of teammate Eliza Bresler. The 2019 IWLCA second-team All-Region honoree is fifth in program history in goals (140), eighth in points (174) and second in draw controls (233).

After having her 2020 season limited to three games by the pandemic, Glavin has helped this year's team to a 9-2 record, the Northeast Division's top seed in the upcoming NE10 Championships and a number 15 national ranking. During her career, the computer information systems major has been part of teams that have a 29-15 record.

The Powers Scholar-Athlete Award is named in honor of the late Edward J. Powers, a Bentley alumnus and trustee whose four-plus decades at the Boston Garden included time as the famed arena's President.

Hassapis, whose senior season fell victim to COVID, finished her career with a 20-12-5 record, 11 shutouts and a school record 0.98 goals against average in 38 games. As a junior in 2019, she led Bentley to its first-ever NCAA Division II tournament berth and was part of a defense that had a streak of 531 consecutive scoreless minutes.

A Division II All-New England selection and a second-team All-Northeast-10 honoree as a junior, Hassapis excelled in the classroom as well as on the pitch during her career. She achieved a 3.74 grade point average while majoring in management and minoring in psychology.