Kansas City, MO - Four members of the Vermont State University Lyndon men's basketball team have been named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Hornet program has also been named a recipient of the NABC 2024-2025 Team Academic Excellence Award.  This is the sixth consecutive time that the Hornets have earned the distinction, the only six times that the Hornets have been honored in the 13 year history of the award.

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards recognize programs that completed the 2024-25 academic year with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher.  The NABC Honors Court, meanwhile, includes junior, senior and graduate student men's basketball players who finished the 2024-25 year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.

Matt Doyle (Whitesboro, NY) and Gregory Gonyea Jr. (Dolgeville, NY) were repeat Honors Court selections, with both having also received the distinction in 2023-24.  Dakota Holbrook (Jordan, NY) and Chad Martin (Henniker, NH) were named to the Honors Court for the first time.

Doyle, a History major, completed his second season at Lyndon this past year.  He was a senior academically.  He was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team and the North Atlantic Conference All-Academic Team.  On the court, Doyle was the only Lyndon player to start all 26 games.  He averaged 6.4 points and a team best 6.6 rebounds per game.

Gonyea graduated in May wit a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a Management concentration.  He plans to return to Lyndon in the upcoming year to begin work oh his Master's degree in Business Administration.  He was also named Academic All-District and NAC All-Academic.  Gonyea was the NAC's Men's Basketball Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year and a 1st Team All-Conference selection this past year.  He was the leading scorer in the NAC, averaging 20.9 points per game.  He has scored 1,101 points thus far in his college career.

Holbrook, a graduate student pursing his Master's degree in Sport Leadership, competing at the intercollegiate level for the first time this year.  He saw action in 20 games and scored 53 points while grabbing 36 rebounds.

Martin completed his junior year as an Exercise Science major in the Pre-Physical Therapy concentration.  Like Doyle and Gonyea, he was named Academic All-District.  He also joined Doyle, Gonyea, and Holbrook on the NAC All-Academic Team.  Martin played in all 26 games, averaging 2.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game.

In order to be named to the Honors Court, a student-athlete must meet a high standard of academic criteria. The qualifications are as follows

1. Academically a junior, senior, or graduate student and a varsity player.
2. Cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.2 or higher at the conclusion of the 2024-2025 academic year.
3. Member of a four-year institution with at least one active NABC member coach.

This marks the fifth consecutive year that multiple Hornets have been named to the Honors Court in the same year and the eighth consecutive year that the program has had at least one Honors Court selection.  Previous Lyndon honorees include:

The NABC Team Academic Excellence Award recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better for the 2024-2025 academic year.  In order to earn an award, institutions must count the grade point averages of all men's student-athletes who competed at any point during the 2024-2025 season.

The Hornets posted a 3.01 composite grade point average over the 2024-2025 academic year. Gonyea was named to the President's List in both the fall and spring semesters for earning 4.0 grade point average.  Freshman Tyler Cooper (Sterling, NY) was also named to the President's List in both semesters, while freshman Tyler Dias (Woonsocket, RI) earned the distinction in the spring.  Doyle, Martin, Dias, and freshman Christian Hathorn (Wilder, VT) were named to the Dean's List for the fall semester, while freshman Tyler Bergmans (Ferrisburgh, VT) joined Hathorn on the Dean's List for the spring.

The largest professional association of basketball coaches, the NABC currently claims a membership of nearly 5,000 men's basketball coaches throughout the ranks of the NCAA, NAIA, junior and community colleges and high school.   Over 2,400 players earned spots on the NABC Honors Court and nearly 400 programs received NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25.