Emily Doherty of Shrewsbury, Mass., Named CoSIDA Academic All-District I

2014 Nov 5

WPI junior Emily Doherty has been named to the CoSIDA Division III Women's Soccer Academic All-District I team, as selected by Division III sports information directors from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. She is now under consideration for Academic All-America status.

Doherty, an industrial engineering major, boasts a 3.64 GPA while leading the NEWMAC with 12 goals and 27 points on the season. She notched game-winning goals against Southern Maine, Framingham State and at Wellesley to help WPI log back-to-back winning seasons for the third time in school history and first time in a decade (2003, 2004).

The Dean's List honoree is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and Colleges Against Cancer, as well as Phi Sigma Sigma sorority. Doherty is a Great Problems Seminars People's Choice Award winner and will head to Namibia for her IQP project in the spring.

WPI, under the guidance of second-year head coach Steph Schafer, posted an 8-7-4 overall record and a 5-2-3 ledger in conference matches. Over the course of the season, the Engineers defeated Wheaton for the first time since 1995 and enjoyed a program-best five-game unbeaten streak (3-0-2) en route to claiming the fifth seed in the 2014 NEWMAC Women's Soccer Championship.

About Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, Mass., WPI is one of the nation's first engineering and technology universities. Its 14 academic departments offer more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. WPI's talented faculty work with students on interdisciplinary research that seeks solutions to important and socially relevant problems in fields as diverse as the life sciences and bioengineering, energy, information security, materials processing, and robotics. Students also have the opportunity to make a difference to communities and organizations around the world through the university's innovative Global Perspective Program. There are more than 40 WPI project centers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.