Merrimack resident Allyn Doyle Graduates from Saint Anselm College, Moves on to the University of Notre Dame

Doyle Closes Chapter on Impressive Student-Athlete Career

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Merrimack resident Allyn Doyle graduated from Saint Anselm College on May 18

MANCHESTER, NH (06/04/2013)(readMedia)-- Merrimack, N.H. resident, Allyn Doyle graduated summa cum laude from Saint Anselm College on Saturday, May 18, following an impressive student-athlete career.

Captain of the women's cross-country team, the psychology major was named the female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Named to the Dean's List five times and graduating with honors, Doyle easily exceeded the GPA requirement of the scholar-athlete award.

She was one of three 2012-2013 Northeast-10 Conference Woman of the Year finalists.

Doyle is a presidential scholar, a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Student Athlete Honor Society, as well as a Psi Chi and Sigma Delta Pi, the Psychology and Spanish National Honor Society, respectively.

Last summer, she conducted research funded by the NH-INBRE grant; she was one of 14 students at the college selected for the grant. Her research was conducted in collaboration with psychology professor Paul Finn.

She is a two-time member of the Northeast-10 Academic All-Conference Team, has been selected to four Northeast-10 Commissioner's Honor Rolls and has twice qualified for United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II All-Academic Status.

Doyle served as the director of spirit for the college's campus activities board. Through Campus Ministry's Service and Solidarity Program, she has led and participated in service trips most recently to Phoenix, Ariz. where her group worked together at a hospitality center for the homeless and hungry. There, they cleaned the rugs, organized shelves, scraped paint, cleaned off the roof, and changed insulation in swamp coolers.

Doyle earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Anselm. She will continue her education through Notre Dame University's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Program, where she will earn a master's in education (from Notre Dame) while teaching pre-K through eighth grade in Chicago, Ill.

Saint Anselm College is a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college in Manchester, N.H.