ASSOCIATION OF DIVISION III INDEPENDENTS
WEEKLY PLAYER AWARDS
Monday, November 1, 2004
I only received nominations this week from NJCU, St. Elizabeth , Colorado College, and California State Hayward . Please, if you have someone worthy, whether now or in basketball season, nominate them . Players cannot win if they're not nominated.
Since some teams will still be playing into early November, we'll have two more weeks of awards (the last week is November 15).
November 22 will start the men's and women's basketball awards. A nomination sheet will be distributed next week.
MEN'S SOCCER PLAYER OF THE WEEK
ADRIAN RUIZ
New Jersey City University
Senior | Forward | Fairview , NJ / Dickinson HS
In a 3-0 week for New Jersey City University , including the championship of the inaugural Association of Division III Independents Men's Soccer Northeast Regional Tournament, Gothic Knight senior striker Adrian Ruiz was dominant, and was voted by the coaches as the Most Outstanding Player of the championship. Ruiz is the Association of Division III Independents Men's Soccer Player of the Week.
Ruiz , also selected as the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Metro Player of the Week , scored four times, including two game-winning goals, and added an assist for a nine-point effort. He became only the third player in school history to record 70 career points, and moved into second place in school history in scoring (75 points). NJCU (13-7) has won its last three games via shutout, and tied the single-season school record with 72 goals as a club. NJCU is ninth in Division III in scoring offense.
Ruiz scored twice in a 3-0 shutout of Farmingdale State on October 27, and then lifted NJCU into the Independent Championship game with a 4-0 win over Mitchell College on October 30, adding two more goals. When NJCU defeated Green Mountain College the next day in the championship game of the Independent Regionals, he assisted on the second goal, to give him nine assists this season, 21 in his career, and 75 career points. He is three points shy of matching the NJCU career record of 78 points and two short of the career record of 23 assists. He is second on the team with 29 points (10 goals, nine assists) this season. The nine assists are one shy of the single-season record.
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PREVIOUS 2004 MEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK |
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DATE |
AWARD WINNER |
SCHOOL |
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UC-Santa |
| 09/27/2004 | Jose DeBernard | New Jersey City University |
| 10/03/2004 | Patrick McGinnis | Colorado College |
| 10/11/2004 | Bryan Baird | UC-Santa Cruz |
| 10/18/2004 | Chris Rosenthal | New Jersey City University |
| 10/25/2004 | Dannylo Ayllon | California State U.-Hayward |
| 11/01/2004 | Adrian Ruiz | New Jersey City University |
WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYER OF THE WEEK
MELANIE ASTORE
College of St. Elizabeth
Forward | Ewing , NJ /Notre Dame HS
Melanie Astore completed her 2004 season in style for the 7-7-2 Eagles, scoring four times on the week, including one game-winner. She becomes the first College of St. Elizabeth player to receive an Independent weekly award, taking home the Association of Division III Independents Women's Soccer Player of the Week.
Astore, who finish the season with 17 goals and one assist for 35 points, netted two goals for the Eagles in a 5-0 shutout of Mount St. Mary College on October 25. Then, in a 5-0 rout of Bard College on October 30, she again bagged two goals.
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PREVIOUS 2004 WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK |
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DATE |
AWARD WINNER |
SCHOOL |
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California State U.-Hayward |
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UC-Santa |
| 09/27/2004 | Julianne Brown | Thomas More College |
| 10/03/2004 | Skye Vendt-Pearce | UC-Santa Cruz |
| 10/11/2004 | Amber Olson | California State U.-Hayward |
| 10/18/2004 | No nominations | |
| 10/25/2004 | Emily Hagedorn | Thomas More College |
| 11/01/2004 | Melanie Astore | College of St. Elizabeth |
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
LIZZELLE CINTRON
New Jersey City University
Freshman | Middle Blocker | Newark , NJ / Elizabeth HS
Lizzelle Cintron , the NCAA Division III leader in kills per game, added to her awards collection this week when, for the second time this season, she was selected as the AVCA/Sports Imports Division III National Player of the Week . She is the only player in Division III to earn the accolade more than once in 2004. Additionally, she was tabbed the ECAC Division III Player of the Week for the fourth time this year.
So after posting astronomical averages of 8.90 kills, 10.80 points, 5.60 digs, and 1.90 blocks per game while earning Most Valuable Player honors and leading the Gothic Knights to the championship of the Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament, she's an easy choice as the Association of Division III Independents Women's Volleyball Player of the Week for the sixth time this season and the fifth week in a row.
Now with 693 kills this season, Cintron ranks 13th in Division III history for total kills under the 30-point rally-scoring format. She has blasted 30 or more kills in a match seven times this season. NJCU is 26-5 overall and tied the 1997 club for most victories in a season in program history. The Knights have won a school-record 16 consecutive matches, last losing on October 2—more than one month ago.
She had totals of 89 kills, 56 digs, 19 blocks, 108.0 points and a spectacular .461 hitting percentage for the week, and had kills totals of 31, 26, and 32 in three matches.
NJCU most impressive win was a 3-0 sweep of Stevens Institute of Technology in the WIAC Finals. Regionally ranked in the New York poll, the Ducks entered the match at 26-3 overall, for the 12 th best winning percentage in the country, before falling to the Knights. Her 32 kills in that three-game match broke her own school record of 28, and were four shy of the NCAA Division III mark of 36 for a three-game match.
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PREVIOUS 2004 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK |
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DATE |
AWARD WINNER |
SCHOOL |
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California State U.-Hayward |
| 09/27/2004 | Jenny Stephenson | Nebraska Wesleyan University |
| 10/03/2004 | Lizzelle Cintron | New Jersey City University |
| 10/11/2004 | Lizzelle Cintron | New Jersey City University |
| Sarah Ahrens | Nebraska Wesleyan University | |
| 10/18/2004 | Nicole Brandt-Young |
California State U.-Hayward |
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Lizzelle Cintron |
New Jersey City University |
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| 10/25/2004 | Lizelle Cintron | New Jersey City University |
| 11/01/2004 | Lizelle Cintron | New Jersey City University |
The Association of Division III Independents Player of the Week awards program begins on September 13, 2004 and runs through May 16, 2005 , and is based on nominations from the organization's member schools. For more information, please contact Ira Thor , the Director of Sports Information at New Jersey City University , at 201/200-3301 or e-mail via ithor@njcu.edu. |
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