Adrian Avena of Vineland to Compete in National Guard College Fishing Regional Championship

PHILADELPHIA, PA (06/28/2010)(readMedia)-- Chestnut Hill College junior Adrian Avena of Vineland, New Jersey will compete for the second consecutive year in the National Guard FLW College Fishing Regional Championship on Jordan Lake in North Carolina from November 11-13, 2010. Avena and his teammate John Reading qualified for the regional championship by taking fourth place in the National Guard FLW College Fishing bass tournament held in Smallwood State Park in Maryland on June 5, 2010.

As a result of their 4th place win, moving up in rank since the Chestnut Hill College team of Troy Eikenberry and Adrian Avena finished 5th place in the tournament last year, Avena and Reading won $3,000; $1,500 was donated to the College and $1,500 went toward the College's bass-fishing club. The winner of the regional championship on November 13, 2010 will receive $25,000 for their school and their club, and the top five teams will advance to the National Fishing Championship in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Chestnut Hill College Fishing Club has enjoyed immediate success with founders Eikenberry and Avena, who lived on the same residence hallway their freshman year and started the club with help from faculty and staff.

Last year they finished 17 out of 40 at a Maryland tournament in June, then 13th at a New York tournament last July.

National Guard FLW College Fishing is a nationwide competitive bass-fishing program that is open to all full-time students of four-year colleges and universities. For more information and coverage of the November championships, visit

www.FLWoutdoors.com

About Chestnut Hill College

Celebrating 85 years of tradition and risk, Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition that offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master's and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master's universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since 1924, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life's challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

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