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SMITH EARNS SECOND CONSECUTIVE ALL-MET HONORS
April 17, 2015

SMITH EARNS SECOND CONSECUTIVE ALL-MET HONORS

Orangeburg, N.Y. (4/17/15) Dominican College men's basketball player, Nick Smith* (Middletown, N.Y.) has earned his second consecutive All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Division II First Team honors as was announced today.

Orangeburg, N.Y. (4/17/15)  Dominican College men's basketball player, Nick Smith* (Middletown, N.Y.) has earned his second consecutive All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Division II First Team honors as was announced today.

Smith was nearly unstoppable in the paint in 26 games this season, ranking fifth in the country in scoring (24.5 ppg) and fourth in field goal percentage (65.9%). Smith was named ECAC Player of the Week four times, including after scoring a career-high 41 points against Georgian Court University on January 25. Smith also scored 40 points in an 81-80 win over Goldey-Beacom College on February 21.

In addition to being named to the All-Met First team, he was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Co-Player of the Year and to the First Team,  was named to both the NABC All-East Region and Daktronics All-East Region teams, as well as earning his second straight Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) First Team honors.

Smith leaves Dominican as one of just 30 players in program history to record 1,000 career points.

 

2014-2015 All-Met Division II Men's Basketball First and Second Team

First Team

Darian Hooker, NYIT                          6-1, sr, G         Washington, DC

Darien Davis, Dowling                        6-3, sr, G         Middle Island, NY

Nick Smith, Dominican                       6-7, sr, C         Middletown, NY

Michael Balkovic, Caldwell                 6-6, sr, F          Neptune, NJ

Chaz Watler, St. Thomas Aquinas     6-1, so, G        Brooklyn, NY

Duane Morgan, Adelphi                      6-6, sr, G         W. Orange, NJ

 

Second Team

J.R. Pringley, Felician                         6-5, sr, F          Elizabeth, NJ

Ty Williams, LIU Post                         6-5, sr, F          Newark, NJ

Jeremiah Mordi, Queens                    6-4, sr, G         Valley Stream, NY

Marvin Williams, Bloomfield               6-0, jr, G          Jersey City, NJ

Matt McLeod, Molloy                          6-3, sr, G         Greenlawn, NY

Shelton Mickell, Pace                         6-2, jr, G          Queens, NY

 

Player of the Year: Darian Hooker, NYIT

Coach of the Year: Tobin Anderson, St. Thomas Aquinas

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.