MANCHESTER, N.H. – Senior Kyle Maurice (Exeter, N.H.) of the Saint Anselm College baseball team was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-East Region First Team on Thursday.

The accolades keep rolling in for Maurice who was named the Northeast-10 Conference Northeast Division Player of the Year and to the conference's All-Conference First Team before receiving D2CCA All-East Region First Team honors on Wednesday.

Maurice slashed .396/.730/.461 as senior. His .396 batting average led the Hawks and was third in the conference while his .730 slugging percentage was third in the NE10 and second highest in team annals. Maurice slugged 14 home runs in 2022 which leads the conference and is second most in a single season in program history. Maurice posted 63 hits, scored 45 runs, and drove in 48, all of which are top-10 in the NE10 currently.

Maurice registered a 16-game hitting streak this season, going 31-for-62 (.500) on the streak which started in game one of a doubleheader against Assumption on Mar. 27 and ended against Saint Michael's on Apr. 23 in game two of that doubleheader. Maurice slugged three home runs in game two of the Hawks doubleheader against American International on May 6, on his way to driving in eight runs in that contest. Maurice recorded a hit in 35 of 42 games played in 2022 and recorded multiple hits in 19 of those games.

Defensively, the senior committed just one error in 125 total chances which is good for a .992 fielding percentage. That percentage currently ranks 19th in the conference.

In two seasons of play for Saint Anselm, Maurice batted .355, recorded a slugging percentage of .701, and had an on-base percentage of.458. Maurice registered 89 hits in 251 at-bats while scoring 73 runs. He posted 15 doubles, 24 home runs, and 81 runs batted in. Maurice's 24 homers are second most in a career on the Hilltop. He posted a .990 fielding percentage with just three errors in 315 chances between the outfield and first base.

The senior helped the Hawks to their second consecutive NE10 postseason appearance, the first time the program has done that since the 2005 and 2006 seasons. Saint Anselm registered 22 wins in 2022 which is sixth most in a single season and the most since the 2012 season.

MANSFIELD, Mass. – Senior Kyle Maurice (Exeter, N.H.) of the Saint Anselm College baseball team was named the Northeast-10 Conference Northeast Division Player of the Year, announced by the league on Wednesday.

On Tuesday April 4th, 2017, the Psychology department of Saint Anselm College hosted the 4th Annual Hechtl/Lasky Lecture Event.  The series is in honor of former faculty members Richard Hechtl and Julian "Jack" Lasky, who were leaders in Saint Anselm College's Psychology department, having devoted their careers to promoting wellness through basic and applied psychology research. This year, the department welcomed Hon. John Broderick, former Chief Justice of the New    Hampshire Supreme Court, as well as Dr. Lorena Estrada-Martinez, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts-Boston, to discuss how the community can promote wellness for youth of color.

Broderick is working to promote the “Campaign to Change Direction” to help spread awareness of mental health. The campaign is working to promote possible signs of mental illness, including personality changes, agitation, withdrawal, poor self-care, and hopelessness. While talking about the campaign during the lecture, he said his understanding of mental illness comes from his own personal struggles with his own son. Broderick described how his son was brave for allowing him to use his story to

help promote his campaign. Broderick said that he had talked to many different age groups over the past year promoting the campaign. Using his son’s story within his talks about the campaign helped to make a connection with the people he was talking to. John Broderick believes that by spreading the simple concept of “Knowing the Five Signs” of mental illness, this will help bring awareness to the extreme issue of mental health stigma in a general sense.

Dr. Lorena Estrada-Martinez is a social epidemiologist who is interested in making the “Campaign to Change Direction” more inclusive of and effective for communities of color. Dr. Estrada-Martinez commemorates the campaign for moving towards reducing the stigmas of mental illness and putting mental health at the center of health conversation, but still feels that the conversation needs to improve on inclusion across race, religion, ethnicity, and gender. Dr. Estrada-Martinez outlined three important factors that she believes will lead to conversation in all communities. First, addressing the Outcome and Audience Specificity. This addresses the need to intervene at all levels by examining the disparities of suicide behavior and mental illness. She also touched upon how the public service announcements on the Change campaign website are not as diverse as they could be and should be more representative of all cultures. The second factor is understanding the Social Determinants of Mental Health. This factor looks at the varying access to quality healthcare, good neighborhoods, and positive life experiences between the different communities. Dr. Estrada-Martinez exemplifies that

communities of color are not given the same opportunities to access these determinants as White communities. Communities of color often are more likely to be uninsured and have poor communication with their healthcare providers, experience different racial and ethnic socioeconomic inequality, and witness trauma during their childhood. The third factor is Program Evaluation. This involves looking at the goals and objectives of the programs, the activities used to complete those objectives, the methods to assess the effectiveness of the program, and the decision-making based on data, revision, and modification. She also suggested to engage in others’ work towards ending the mental illness stigma and including people of color in order to limit the growth of disparities in communities of color. Dr. Estrada-Martinez concluded by stating that there are many steps between raising awareness and seeing a reduction in the stigmas. These steps are going to be different in all communities because there is not one direct path to follow. There is not one campaign that will be able to address all of the problems with solutions and there is a need to have a political conversation of health equality to see a change. Hearing from Dr. Lorena Estrada-Martinez and Hon. John Broderick was a great opportunity for the Saint Anselm College community to meet and network with leaders in the field of mental health.  We thank them for sharing their work and perspectives with us.