ASSOCIATION OF DIVISION III INDEPENDENTS

WEEKLY PLAYER AWARDS
Monday, November 8, 2004

WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYER OF THE WEEK

KATIE FEEHAN
New Jersey City University
Forward | Manasquan , NJ /Wall HS

In New Jersey City University’s season finale, freshman forward Katie Feehan netted her first career hat trick, and led NJCU to a 9-0 shutout of fellow independent Lincoln University (PA). She takes home this week’s Association of Division III Independents Women’s Soccer Player of the Week.

In a game in which NJCU outshot Lincoln, 51-0, Feehan, who finished the year with a single-season record 79 shot attempts, uncorked 10. She finished the year with a team-high 21 points and nine goals. She scored her third game-winning goal of the year at 11:44 of the first half, and then added NJCU’s fourth and fifth goals at 46:42 and 54:47 of the second half.

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 by nearly one per game, was an obvious choice as Most Valuable Player of the inaugural Independents Northeast Regional Tournament after averaging a mind-boggling 9.00 kills and 10.58 points per game, with 4.92 digs, 1.38 blocks, and a .485 hitting percentage (117-22-196), including 39 kills in the championship match alone. In those four matches, she had 117 kills, 64 digs, 18 blocks, and 137.5 points. She is an easy choice as the Association of Division III Independents Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week for the seventh time this season and the sixth week in a row. She also was tabbed as the ECAC Division III Player of the Week—awarded to the top Division III player on the east coast—for the fifth time in nine weeks.

Cintron has had a season that will be remembered not only for records that may never be touched, but also for helping NJCU earn its first postseason appearance in the 22-year history of the University. NJCU, winners of 20 consecutive matches and a school record 30 victories (30-5) will compete in the ECAC Southern Regional championships this weekend.

The Gothic Knights won all four matches on November 5-6 to claim the championship of the Independents Northeast Regional. In the final against Russell Sage, which had a 25-10 record entering the match, she belted a four-game school-record 39 kills (39-8-69) and hit .449 with 20 digs, five blocks, and 44.5 points. The 39 kills marked the eighth time this season she has had 30 or more kills in a match, and was the third time she has had at least 38 in a contest. She was one shy of her personal-best mark of 40, and three shy of the single-match school record of 42.

In addition, those 39 kills brought her season total to 810, which rank fifth in NCAA Division III single-season history, since the inception of the 30-point rally-scoring format.

She also became NJCU’s single-season school record holder for attack attempts (1458), digs (614), and total blocks (124) last week, and with 108 solo stuffs, is one shy of tying that record.

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