Table of Contents 2012-13 Women’s Basketball Championship Results..................... 4 Championship Participants............................................................. 5-10
2013-14 Women’s Basketball Championship Schedule Play-in Round
Tuesday, March 4 No. 6 Dowling at No. 3 Queens - 7:00 p.m. No. 5 Molloy at No. 4 NYIT - 7:00 p.m.
Semifinals
Thursday, March 6 No. 4/No. 5 at No. 1 LIU Post - 7:00 p.m. No. 3/No. 6 at No. 2 District of Columbia - 7:00 p.m.
Final
Saturday, March 8 TBA at Highest Remaining Seed
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East Coast Conference Staff Robert Dranoff Commissioner rdranoff@eccsports.org 631.348.3451
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The 2014 East Coast Conference Basketball Championship Program was written, laid out and designed by Casey Rafferty, Director of Media Relations, in Adobe InDesign CS5. Cover art work was designed by Casey Rafferty. Special thanks to the editorial assistance provided by: Bob Dranoff, Leslie Busch, and the Sports Information Directors of the East Coast Conference.
NATIONAL RECOGNITION Our student-athletes have received the NCAA’s highest individual honors including winning the Walter Byers Scholarship Award (the NCAA’s top student-athlete) and the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS We have initiated national community partnerships with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.
UNIQUE FISCAL MODEL We offer a unique fiscal model for intercollegiate athletics that redefine the institutional value for sponsoring sports and offering athletics scholarships.
2013 ECC Women’s Basketball Championship Quarterfinals
No. 3 Bridgeport d. No. 6 Queens, 73-60 at Bridgeport, Conn. No. 4 LIU Post d. No. 5 St. Thomas Aquinas, 67-56 at Brookville, N.Y.
Semifinals
No. 1 Dowling d. No. 4 LIU Post, 58-55 at Oakdale, N.Y. No. 2 NYIT d. No. 3 Bridgeport, 78-59 at Old Westbury, N.Y.
Final
No. 1 Dowling d. No. 2 NYIT, 72-49 at Oakdale, N.Y.
All-Tournament Team
Alexis Peters - LIU Post Tanisha Carter - Bridgeport Rebecca Lynch - NYIT Nikki Jo Rotolo - NYIT Connie Simmons - Dowling Danielle Wilson - Dowling
Tournament MOP
Christine Verrelle - Dowling
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Past Champions
Pace Pace Philadelphia Philadelphia St. Rose St. Rose St. Rose St. Rose St. Rose St. Rose C.W. Post Adelphi
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Dowling Adelphi Bridgeport New Haven New Haven Molloy Queens Molloy C.W. Post Dowling Dowling
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UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA No. Name Yr 1 Telisha Turner Jr. 2 Myla Somerville So. 3 Julissa Anderson Sr. 4 Snezana Blagojevic Sr. 5 Milena Bubnjevic Sr. 10 Teara Shaw Sr. 11 Denikka Brent Jr. 14 Tiara Goode So. 15 Shantrel Oliver So. 22 Tajruba Baldwin-Kollore So. 23 Diamonique Carr Jr. 32 Tatyana Calhoun So. 33 ShaKena Williams Jr.
Pos G G G G C/F G G/F F G G G/F F F
Ht 5-3 5-7 6-2 5-8 6-2 5-2 5-11 5-10 5-5 5-9 5-10 5-11 5-10
Hometown/Previous School Wilmington, Del./Harcum College Loveville, Md./Bowie State Greensboro, N.C./Southeast Guilford Kragujevac, Serbia/Shepherd Leskovac, Serbia/Longwood University Bronx, N.Y./Indian River State Chesapeake, Va./Booker T. Washington Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood Columbia, Md./Chesapeake College Newport News, Va./Denbigh Camden, N.J./Harcum College Disputanta, Va./Sussex Central Washington, D.C./Frederick CC
Coach Lester Butler, Jr.
Head Coach: Lester Butler, Jr. (10th season) Assistant Coaches: Robin Williams and DeWayne Burroughs
Denikka Brent
Tatyana Calhoun
Quick Facts Location: Washington, D.C. Founded: 1851 Enrollment: 5,855 Nickname: Firebirds Colors: Burgundy and Gold Interim President: Dr. James E. Lyons, Sr. Director of Athletics: Patricia A. Thomas Arena (Capacity): UDC Gymnasium (3,500)
Did You Know? • UDC is in its third season as a member of the East Coast Conference. The Firebird women’s basketball team has earned a berth in the ECC Tournament in two of those three years. • Head Coach Lester Butler, Jr. is in his 10th season at University of the District of Columbia. He recently reached the 150-win milestone on Wed., Feb. 26 with a Firebirds victory over Dowling. • Junior transfer guard Telisha Turner became the fourth player at UDC under Coach Butler to surpass the 1,000-point career scoring mark when she did so on Feb. 1, 2014 vs. STAC.
Telisha Turner
About District of Columbia Initially founded in 1851, the University of the District of Columbia has a rich history. Chartered in 1974, the University of the District of Columbia is the only fully-accredited public institution of higher education in the nation’s capital. As an urban land-grant university, it supports a broad mission of education, research and community service and offers bachelors and masters degrees in the College of Arts and Science; School of Business and Public Administration; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Studies. Also included in the university system is the David A. Clarke School of Law. UDC also offers more than 20 associate degree and certificate programs as well as over 25 Workforce Development programs to prepare students for successful careers and academic advancement. UDC attracts students of every age from the Washington, DC region, the nation, and the world—providing innovative, results-driven programs that enrich our city with educated, qualified students, ready to work and contribute to its overall prosperity and quality of life. UDC extends beyond its campus footprint, offering easy access to world-famous monuments, political intrigue and cultural attractions everywhere you look. An education here opens doors to opportunities that can only be found in the nation’s capital.
5UDC sponsors 10 intercollegiate athletic programs and competes in the East Coast Conference.
DOWLING COLLEGE
Coach Bill Carpenter
No. Name 3 Kamille Ejerta 4 Nicole Gomez 10 Krstina Surlan 11 Kristen McMahon 12 Rekik Worku 14 Julia Koppl 15 Ashley Gyscek 21 Kim Gutterman 22 Christine Verrelle 23 Jillian Gilman 24 Jessica Kalbfleisch
Yr So. Fr. So. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Fr. So.
Pos G G G G/F F F G G G C F
Ht 5-5 5-5 5-9 5-10 6-0 6-1 5-8 5-8 5-8 6-2 6-0
Hometown/Previous School Jamaica, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy Deer Park, N.Y./ Deer Park Novi Grad, Bosnia/Gimnazija Petar Kocic Patchogue, N.Y./St. John the Baptist Wynnewood, Pa./Lower Merion Innsbrook,Austria/SRG ReithmanStrasse Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East Huntington, N.Y./Walt Whitman Abington, Pa. /Archbishop Wood Weare, N.H./ Trinity Ridge, N.Y./Longwood
Head Coach: Bill Carpenter (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: Christina Marra, Brian LaVelle and Doug Davis
Julia Koppl
Christine Verrelle
Rekik Worku
Quick Facts Did You Know? • The men’s soccer program won the National Championship in 2006 Location: Oakdale, N.Y. and advanced to the National Championship game in 2008 Founded: 1955 • Dowling has had four baseball student-athletes selected in the MLB First Year Player draft (Kip Roggendorf, ‘93, Toronto; Wilberto Ortiz, Enrollment: Over 6,500 ‘06, Los Angeles (AL); Billy Mottram, ‘07, Chicago (NL); David Wendt, Nickname: Golden Lions ‘09, Tampa Bay) Colors: Navy Blue and Gold • The men’s lacrosse team won the program’s first National Championship in 2012 President: Dr. Norman R. Smith • In 2012-13 Dowling’s women’s basketball team advanced to the Vice President for Athletics: Melody Cope National Championship game after becoming the second team in Arena (capacity): Dowling Gymnasium at ECC history to win the NCAA East Region Tournament. • The volleyball team has made 11 consecutive NCAA Tournament SJU Eastern Long Island Campus (800) appearances.
About Dowling Founded in 1955 as part of Adelphi University’s Suffolk Campus, the college purchased the former W.K. Vanderbilt estate in Oakdale in 1962. In 1968 the college was renamed after its chief benefactor, Robert Dowling, a noted city planner and aviator. Situated on the banks of the Connetquot River on a former Vanderbilt estate, Dowling’s Rudolph Campus in Oakdale is among the nation’s most beautiful. The 105-acre Brookhaven Center is located on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley and features high-tech learning facilities for a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Located within walking distance to the Long Island Rail Road and featuring free parking and shuttle bus service, Dowling is easily accessible from both Suffolk and Nassau counties, as well as the five boroughs of New York City.
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LIU POST
No. Name 1 Jalyn Brown 2 Dominique Pagan 3 Alexis Peters 5 Nijah LaCourt 11 Neila Collins 12 Ariana Ijaduola 13 Nyasia Davis 14 Quanisha Ratley 15 Chelsea Williams 20 Erin Tully 23 Kiki Sears 24 Shayna Gatling 32 Jessica Little
Yr So. Sr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. So. So. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr.
Pos G F G C/F G G C/F G G F G F F
Ht 5-4 6-0 5-7 6-1 5-4 5-8 6-2 5-8 5-7 5-10 5-6 5-10 5-10
Hometown/Previous School Riverhead, N.Y./Riverhead Bronx, N.Y./UMass Lowell Dorchester, Mass./Fontbonne Academy Bronx, N.Y./Manhattan Center Manhasset, N.Y./St. Mary’s Teaneck, N.J./Teaneck Rahway, N.J./NJIT Brooklyn, N.Y./Enterprise, Business and Tech. Copiague, N.Y./Copiague New Hyde Park, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy Hampton, Va./Hampton Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin Wyandanch, N.Y./Briarcliffe
Coach Deirdre Moore
Head Coach: Deirdre Moore (6th Season) Assistant Coaches: Basimah Thompson, Vanessa Smith, Jasmin Jones and Tiffany JacksonWooden
Alexis Peters
Kiki Sears
Quick Facts Location: Brookville N.Y. Founded: 1954 Enrollment: 8,472 Nickname: Pioneers Colors: Green and Gold President: Dr. Kimberly R. Cline Director of Athletics: Bryan Collins Arena (capacity): Pratt Recreation Center (3,000)
Did You Know? • Six Pioneers sports have participated in NCAA competition this year: Field Hockey, Men’s Soccer, Volleyball, Women’s Swimming, Men’s and Women’s Cross Country • The Pioneer Field Hockey and Volleyball teams both had program-setting seasons, advancing the furthest in their respective tournaments in program history. • Both men’s and women’s basketball have been impressive the past five years – each have posted 15+ wins each season since 2009-10
Chelsea Williams
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About LIU Post The LIU Post Campus of Long Island University is a private, residential campus in Brookville, New York, offering more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degrees in accountancy, business, computer science, education, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. Founded in 1954, LIU Post offers small classes, state-of-the art facilities and a safe, beautiful campus just 25 miles from Manhattan. Situated on 307 acres on the North Shore of Long Island, the campus features stately historic mansions, redbrick academic buildings, rolling green lawns, and formal gardens. Special campus highlights include wireless classrooms, a writing center, a museum, a recreation center, and one of the largest research libraries in the New York Metropolitan Region. LIU Post’s’ 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students enjoy exceptional health and fitness facilities, more than 80 clubs and 1,000 activities each year, competitive NCAA sports programs and the celebrated Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. More than 85 percent of the LIU Post students receive some form of financial assistance or scholarship. LIU Post graduates have gone on to become entrepreneurs, executives at major firms, teachers, doctors, artists, scientists and journalists. Many of our more than 100,000 alumni have achieved prominence in society’s most dynamic fields. For more information, visit the LIU Post Web Site at www.liu.edu/post.
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Coach Anthony Crocitto
No. Name Yr Pos 1 Victoria Crea Fr. G 2 Savannah Donarski Sr. F/C 3 Brianna Bollettieri So. G 4 Dina Ragab So. G/F 5 Julie Williams Fr. G 10 Demitra Apergis Sr. G 13 Kesi Goree Fr. F 14 Rebecca Romeo Sr. F 20 Alexandra Venuto Sr. G 21 Audrey Knowlton R-Fr. F/G 22 Maddison Campbell Fr. C 24 Monique Walker Jr. G 30 Sofia Georgiardis Fr. F 33 Shannon Duer Fr. G/F 55 Ashley Hightower Jr. G
Ht 5-3 5-11 5-6 5-9 5-8 5-5 5-11 6-0 5-8 5-9 6-1 5-8 6-1 5-9 5-7
Hometown/Previous School Staten Island, N.Y./Moore Catholic Powell, Wyo./Casper College Plainview, N.Y./Plainview JFK Cairo, Egypt/Deutsche Evagelische Oberschule Smithtown, N.Y./Hauppauge Littleton, Colo./Columbine Southampton, N.Y./Southampton Victoria, Australia/Mill Park Secondary College Ossining, N.Y./Ossining Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester Victoria, Australia/St. Helena Secondary Mastic, N.Y./William Floyd Athens, Greece/4th Lyceum of Heraklion Islip, N.Y./Islip Queens Village, N.Y./P811Q
Head Coach: Anthony Crocitto (5th Season) Assistant Coaches: Wayne Jones, Tesia Harris, and Lisa Claxton Demitra Apergis
Shannon Duer
Alexandra Venuto
Quick Facts Location: Old Westbury, N.Y. Founded: 1955 Enrollment: 15,000 Nickname: Bears Colors: Blue and Gold President: Edward Guiliano, Ph. D. Director of Athletics: Clyde Doughty Jr. Arena (capacity): Recreation Hall (500)
Did You Know? • Senior Demitra Apergis is not only the NYIT All-Time Assists Leader but also broke the single season assists record in 2013-14 with 130. • Sophomore Dina Ragab is just three blocks shy of tying the NYIT single-season record. • Head Coach Anthony Crocitto is the winningest coach in NYIT women’s basketball program history. His tally is 67-69.
About New York Institute of Technology New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) offers 90 degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; education; engineering and computing sciences; health professions; management; and osteopathic medicine. A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT sponsors 11 NCAA Division II programs and one Division I team. Led by President Edward Guiliano, NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. To date, 92,000 graduates have received degrees from NYIT. For more information, visit nyit.edu.
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MOLLOY COLLEGE
No. Name 2 Taylor Gallagher 4 Alex Hampton 11 Kelly Guerriero 12 Ally Leftridge 13 Kimani Jackson 14 Megan Lonergan 15 Meghan Orlando 20 Nicole Arnone 22 Widly Couloute 23 Maggie Milonakis 24 Aliyah McDonald 30 Alexia O’Connor 31 Allison Smith 32 Sabrina Padro 33 Taylor Kenney
Yr Fr. So. Sr. So. So. Jr. Jr. Jr. So. So. Fr. So. Jr. Jr. Jr.
Pos G G G F G/F F G G/F G G G G F G F
Ht 5-3 5-6 5-8 5-9 5-10 6-2 5-7 5-10 5-8 5-3 5-7 5-9 6-2 5-4 5-11
Hometown/Previous School Arverne, N.Y. / The Scholars’ Academy Baldwin, N.Y. / Baldwin Floral Park, N.Y. / Mount St. Mary’s Melville, N.Y. / The Univ. of New Hampshire Dix Hills, N.Y. / St. Anthony’s Rockville Centre, N.Y. / Queens College Hicksville, N.Y. / Holy Trinity Staten Island, N.Y. / Moore Catholic Queens Village, N.Y. / Murry Bergtraum Levittown, N.Y. / Island Trees Hempstead, N.Y. / Uniondale Centerport, N.Y. / Harborfields Blairstown, N.J. / Dean College Bronx, N.Y. / Roxbury C.C. Wantagh, N.Y. / MacArthur
Coach Kate Lynch
Head Coach: Kate Lynch (1st Season) Assistant Coaches: David Jollon, Janele Henderson, and Ashley Addison
Nicole Arnone
Kelly Guerriero
Quick Facts Did You Know? • Senior John Petrucelli of the men’s basketball team set a few new program Location: Rockville Centre, N.Y. records this year, including: single-game scoring (39 points versus Bridgeport on December 11, 2013), single-season scoring (currently has 623 points), and all-time Founded: 1955 scoring (currently has 1,942 points). He also has led NCAA Division II in steals Enrollment: 3,300 per game for the majority of the season, and ranked in the Top-5 for points per game in the country throughout the year. Nickname: Lions • Senior Kelly Guerriero of the women’s basketball team set a new single-season Colors: Maroon and White three-point record as she has drained 85 treys. She currently paces the ECC in that category. President: Drew Bogner, Ph.D • The men’s indoor track and team won its second-straight East Coast ConferDirector of Athletics: Susan Cassidy-Lyke ence Championship on February 22, 2014. The Lions amassed a total of 138 points at the title meet. Arena (capacity): Quealy Gymnasium • Senior Dan Brown was named to the All-ECC Men’s Soccer First Team this past (525) Fall.
Megan Lonergan
• For the Fall 2013 semester, 10 Lions earned a perfect and pristine 4.0 GPA to join the 4.0 GPA Club. The 10 student-athletes were: Alexa De La Torre (women’s soccer), Michael DioGuardi (cross country, track and field), Jessica Falcone (cheerleading), Nicholas Gonchar (baseball), Nicole Hein (cross country, track and field), Katie Jacques (women’s soccer), Keri Korwan (cheerleading), Ryan Lane (cheerleading), Lisa Nappi (equestrian) and Nicolette Sinagra (softball).
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About Molloy: Molloy College is an institution of the Dominican tradition which offers students a rich, multi-dimensional educational experience in an academically challenging environment. We foster critical thinking and creative exploration while preparing students to live and work in the global world of today.
QUEENS COLLEGE
Coach Bet Naumovski
No. Name Yr Pos 5 Kasheema Besley Jr. G 10 Twanda Holder Fr. G 11 Madison Rowland Fr. F 12 MacKenzie Rowland R-Fr. F/C 22 Joya McFarland So. G 23 Melissa Gardner Gr. F 32 Takiya Webb Sr. F 33 Kristen Korzevinski So. G 34 Marie Byrnes Jr. G 43 Elisabeth Gully R-Fr.. F/C 44 Tara Fearon Sr. F/C
Ht 5-8 5-6 5-10 6-2 5-4 6-1 5-10 5-10 5-9 6-0 6-1
Hometown/Previous School Hillcrest, N.Y./University at Buffalo Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison Cohoes, N.Y./Shaker Cohoes, N.Y./Shaker Bronx, N.Y/JFK Brampton, Ontario/Canisius College Rochester, N.Y/Monroe C.C. New Hyde Park, N.Y./New Hyde Park Brooklyn, N.Y./Rhode Island Rego Park, N.Y/Mary Louis Academy Bronx, N.Y/Georgian Court
Head Coach: Bet Naumovski (3rd Season) Assistant Coaches: Anthony Clarke, Bria Jackson, and Lisanne Comeau
Melissa Gardner
MacKenzie Rowland
Madison Rowland
Quick Facts Location: Flushing, N.Y. Founded: 1937 Enrollment: 20,000 Nickname: Knights Colors: Navy Blue and Red Interim President: Dr. Evangelos J. Gizis Assistant VP for Athletics: China Jude Arena (capacity): Fitzgerald Gymnasium (3,000)
Did You Know? • The Lady Knights made it to the AIAW Finals in 1973 and were one of the two participants in the first women’s basketball game ever played at Madison Square Garden in 1975. • Gail Marquis was a silver medalist for the first United States Olympic Women’s Basketball Team. • The Queens College men’s and women’s tennis teams both advanced to the NCAA Round of 16 last year, earning top-25 rankings along the way.
About Queens: Queens College, located on a beautiful 77-acre campus in Flushing, New York, opened its doors in 1937 with the goal of offering a first-rate education to talented people of all backgrounds and financial means. Part of the City University of New York (CUNY) since its founding in 1961, Queens College is one of CUNY’s largest senior colleges. It enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and professional programs, and was cited in the 2012 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 376 Colleges for its academic excellence and generous financial aid packages. The college has 69 undergraduate and 62 graduate programs in four divisions, which offer day and evening courses: Arts and Humanities; Education; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; and the Social Sciences. Students are taught by top scholars who are dedicated to teaching and research. Of our 641 full-time faculty, nearly 90% have the terminal degree in their fields (not all fields offer doctorates) and 65% have tenure. Over 120,000 students have graduated since the college’s first class of 1941. Our alumni include such household names as Paul Simon and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as the CEOs of major companies and leaders in the fields of medicine, education, media, the law, and politics.
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