Release courtesy of Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications
CoSIDA Academic All-America Men's Soccer Team
BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's soccer team placed two players on the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America Team it was announced today. Graduate student Nate Charendoff and sophomore Logan Falzarano were named to the Third Team.
Hopkins has now produced 15 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans and has had at least two selections in four of the last six years. Falzarano is the first Blue Jay men's soccer player to earn the honor as a sophomore and is one of just two sophomores to be named to the 2021 CoSIDA Men's Soccer Division III Academic All-America Team.
Charendoff and Falzarano helped Hopkins to a 12-5-2 record, the Centennial Conference regular season championship and a trip to the NCAA Second Round. Charendoff is pursuing a master's in engineering management and is expected to graduate in May 2022. He earned bachelor's degrees in chemical and biomolecular engineering and economics this past May. Falzarano is majoring in applied mathematics and statistics with a minor in computer science.
Falzarano helped a Blue Jay defense that ranked second in the conference in goals allowed (19) and shutouts (8). In his first year as a starter, he earned Second Team All-Centennial Conference honors. He started all 19 games and notched one assist from his defensive position. In 2018, Falzarano was a research assistant to a political science professor at Norwich University and attended the World Leadership Forum Conference. Falzarano worked as a data analyst for Savi Solutions PBC, was a data intern at CREyield as well as a business intelligence intern at Red River Technology.
Charendoff finished tied for the team lead with a career-best six goals and was tied for second with a career-best 13 points. He was as a business analyst and consultant at Idea Village Products Corporation, a global wealth management summer analyst at Deutsche Bank and a wealth management analyst at Northeast Private Client Group. Charendoff has worked an environmental sustainability researcher in the Johns Hopkins nano energy lab for the last four years. He is the lead consultant for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Project and is a tutor for the And1 Tutoring program.
Charendoff is also the co-founder of the Blue Lotus Group, an entrepreneurial startup that focuses on Chemical Engineering Product Design, which was inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, to develop innovative solutions and refined products to improve and ease the lives of others.