BROOKVILLE, N.Y. — The Northeast Conference on Tuesday saluted the achievements of its fall-sports student-athletes both in the classroom and in competition.

And LIU had a banner day.

Three Sharks earned Fall Scholar-Athlete honors from the NEC as the top combined athletic/academic achievers in their sports: women's volleyball's Anastasia Scott, women's cross country's Ainhoa Brea and men's cross country's Elyas Ayyoub.

Additionally, 166 LIU fall student-athletes were named to the NEC Fall Academic Honor Roll for maintaining at least a 3.20 GPA and 57 student-athletes earned a spot on the Commissioner's Honor Roll for achieving at least a 3.75 GPA.

That included men's soccer's Luka Albano, Blake Bonfiglio, Gianluca Cersosimo, Nick Demers, Jack Fridman, Henry Haferkorn, Matthias Heiland, Ivan Jara, Sam Keogan, Alan Martinez, Michael Mollica, Michael-Andre Odusami, Hans Oeftger, Michael Principe, Julian Quaresima, Mathew Salinas, Christopher Seychell, Kyumin Shin, Florian Skulimowski, Aiden Wilson and Robert Winkler being named to the Academic Honor Roll and Cersosimo, Demers, Fridman, Keogan,Quaresima, Seychell, Shin, Skulimowski and Winkler qualifying for the Commissioner's Honor Roll.

Fridman has a 4.0 cumulative GPA.

Winkler previously had earned third-team Academic All-America honors.

Ayyoub, a sophomore from Capetown, South Africa, possesses a 3.96 GPA as a biology major. He earned All-NEC honors this past fall, was a two-time NEC Athlete of the Week and finished second at the Oct. 28 NEC Championship with an 8K time of 24:52.4.

Brea, a senior from Llanera, Asturias, Spain, has a 3.96 GPA as a biology major. She won the NEC Championship with a 5K time of 17:31.4, earning NEC Outstanding Runner and All-NEC honors as a result.

Scott earned a 3.92 GPA as an undergrad at LIU, and now has a 3.78 GPA as a graduate student studying data analytics. She won her third straight NEC Defensive Player of Year award this past fall, making history as the first student-athlete to earn the award three times in conference history.