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2004 WIAC VOLLEYBALL ALL STARS ANNOUNCED

NJCU'S LIZZELLE CINTRON VOTED PLAYER OF THE YEAR

DAWN HERRING OF STEVENS IS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ (11/08/2004)…After being named WIAC Player of the Week in five consecutive weeks to end the season, and six times in eight weeks overall, New Jersey City University freshman middle blocker was an easy choice for WIAC Player of the Year accolades. She is the fourth consecutive Gothic Knight to score the award. NJCU won the WIAC Tournament championship on October 30. Meanwhile, Stevens Institute of Technology, the regular season champions with a perfect 6-0 record, picked up two honors. Freshman Dawn Herring, a two-time WIAC Rookie of the Week, is the WIAC Rookie of the Year. Third-year head coach J.J. O'Connell, is the WIAC Coach of the Year. The full list of awards:

NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY WINS WIAC TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP, SWEEPING STEVENS INSTITUTE IN FINALS

NJCU WINS 16^TH CONSECUTIVE MATCH; LIZZELLE CINTRON NAMED MVP

JERSEY CITY, NJ (10/30/2004)…After losing twice to Stevens Institute of Technology this season, New Jersey City University (26-5) avenged those defeats by sweeping the Ducks, 3-0 (30-28, 31-29, 31-29) in the finals to capture the championship of the 2004 Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament, held at NJCU’s Athletic and Fitness Center. The Ducks dropped to 26-4 with the loss.

NJCU tied the single-season record for victories achieved in 1997 (26-9), and extended its school-record winning streak to an overwhelming 16 consecutive wins, nearly doubling the previous mark of nine straight. The WIAC title for NJCU is its second in three years. NJCU was the No. 2 seed in the tournament after finishing second in the WIAC regular season standings (5-1). It was NJCU’s second tournament championship in two weeks, having captured the 11^th Annual Gothic Knight Invitational on October 16.

Stevens (6-0 WIAC), which won its school-record 26^th match of the season on Saturday, was the top seed in the tournament.

NJCU advanced to the finals by sweeping St. Joseph ’s College-Patchogue, 3-0 (30-13, 30-19, 31-29) in the semifinals for the Knights’ fourth win over the Golden Eagles (13-17) this season. The Ducks easily defeated Farmingdale State University , 3-0 (30-19, 30-6, 30-17) in the second semifinal.

FSU (11-10), the No. 4 seed, defeated the College of St. Elizabeth (10-17), the fifth seed in one quarterfinal, 3-0 (30-23, 30-25, 31-29). St. Joseph ’s, the third seed, swept Centenary College (8-16) in the other quarterfinal, 30-13, 30-23, 30-11. Centenary, the No. 6 seed outlasted No. 7 Rutgers University-Camden (2-24), by a 3-1 margin (30-13, 30-25, 24-30, 30-17) in the play-in match.

Freshman middle blocker LIZZELLE CINTRON (Newark, NJ/Elizabeth), the NCAA Division III leader in kills per game, was an obvious choice as the WIAC Tournament Most Valuable Player after she combined to wallop 58 kills in six games over two matches, including a three-game single-match school record of 32 kills against Stevens. That eclipsed her previous record of 28 she belted against Lehman College on October 21. The 32 kills were four shy of matching the NCAA Division III record for a three-game match. MORE

NJCU TO HOST SEVEN-TEAM WOMEN’S INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT ON OCTOBER 30

JERSEY CITY, NJ (10/29/2004)…New Jersey City University will be the host school for the 2004 Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, October 30, 2004 at the Athletic and Fitness Center. It will be the second consecutive year NJCU has hosted the event.