Dec. 16, 2009

EASTON, Pa. - Senior offensive tackle Ryan Hart-Predmore (Rochester, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit) has earned a spot on the 2009 ECAC FCS All-Star Team, one of five Patriot League representatives on the offensive side of the ball.

Hart-Predmore is a two-time All-Patriot League honoree, securing first-team laurels as a senior following a second-team nod in the 2008. The senior tri-captain was the anchor for the offensive line and the quality protection for a passing unit that ranks 11th in the nation in passing offense and 15th in total offense.

Hart-Predmore is an Economics & Business major and is finishing up a fall semester in which he was enrolled in four courses: Contemporary African Economics, Introduction to Architectural Engineering, State & Local Government and Linear Algebra.

The Leopards finished the season at 8-3 and were ranked in both Top 25 polls at the end of the regular season. Lafayette is the only Patriot League program to have a winning record in each of the last six regular seasons while also being nationally ranked.

The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is the nation's largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference, with approximately 300 member institutions and over 122,000 student-athletes ranging across 16 states from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. The ECAC honors more than 2,000 student-athletes during the academic year through its all-star and player of the week programs..