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Bramanti and Glidden are program's fifth and sixth Academic All-District® selections, first since 2010-11
College Sports Communicators Announce Women's Basketball Academic All-District® Teams
Stonehill's All-Time Academic All-District® honorees
EASTON, Mass. (February 28, 2023) – Two members of the Stonehill College women's basketball program have been recognized for their efforts on the court and in the classroom by being named to the 2022-23 Academic All-District® women's basketball team by College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA).
Stonehill fifth-years Emily Bramanti and Sophie Glidden have both earned Academic All-District® honors for the first time in their careers. The duo gives Stonehill six honorees in the program's history and they are the first since Emily Rousseau, '11 earned her second of two-straight selections during her senior year in 2010-11. It's the first time in the program's history that two team members have earned the honors in the same season.
The CSC Academic All-America program recognizes women's basketball honorees in four divisions – NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot, where first, second and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-March following a vote of CSC members. Academic All-District® nominees should be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average, with graduate students needing to have a 3.50 GPA at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Bramanti, who has earned a 3.51 cumulative grade point average as a criminology major at the College, earns Academic All-District® honors for the first time in her career after being named to the Northeast-10 Conference Academic All-Conference team as a senior. She was named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll every semester prior to the College transitioning to NCAA Division I this year and also earned the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award. Earlier this winter, Bramanti was selected as a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) 20th "So You Want To Be A Coach" class to be held over two days during the 2023 WBCA Convention in Dallas, Texas.
Bramanti earns Academic All-District® honors as a criminology major with a 3.51 GPA (PHOTO BY Ryan Feeney) |
Bramanti has shined in Stonehill's first Division I season, being named an NEC Prime Performer a team-leading ten weeks, with a pair of NEC Player of the Week honors. She has started all 28 games for the Skyhawks and ranks among Conference leaders in eight categories, ranking fourth in scoring with her team-high 14.9 points per game, leading the NEC with 2.4 three-point field goals per game and ranking fifth in three-point percentage (.370), assists per game (3.1) and assist/turnover ratio (1.34), ninth in free-throw percentage (.742) and 13th in field goal percentage (.399), while ranking second in minutes played with 34.6 minutes per game.
Bramanti has led Stonehill in scoring 14 times this season with 21 double-figure scoring outings, including 20-plus points in seven games, scoring a career-high and NEC season-best 38 points in the Skyhawks 81-74 win at Bryant University on December 11 – finishing just a point shy of the program's single-game record. She notched a double-double (third career) with 21 points and a season-high ten rebounds in a win over Long Island University on January 21, having led Stonehill in rebounding twice and assists in 13 games with a career-high matching eight against Merrimack College on February 9.
Bramanti became the 35th player in Stonehill women's basketball history to surpass the 1,000-point mark against St. Francis College of Brooklyn on February 4. She currently ranks 31st all-time at Stonehill with her 1,068 points and ninth in program history with 154 three-pointers, having also totaled 340 rebounds, 313 assists and 107 steals in 108 career games played. Bramanti, who was ranked as the No. 6 Division I women's basketball player in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe, earned All-NE10 second team honors as a senior.
Glidden earns Academic All-District® honors with a 3.69 GPA in health science (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard) |
Glidden, who has earned a 3.69 cumulative grade point average as a health science major at Stonehill, also collects Academic All-District® honors for the first time. She received the Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative GPA on the team in 2021 and also earned NE10 Academic Honor Roll status every semester and D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award three times before the College started its NCAA Division I transition last summer. Glidden was selected to participate in Stonehill's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program in 2022, working with Linnea Carlson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, on Investigating Cultural Understandings of Mental Health Among Haitian Americans and Cape Verdean Americans in Brockton.
Glidden, named an NEC Prime Performer three times this season, has started all 28 games for Stonehill in its inaugural Division I season. She is second on the team in scoring with 10.3 points per game (15th NEC), ranking third among NEC rebounding leaders with 7.5 per game, including 5.0 defensive rebounds per game (2nd) and 2.5 offensive boards per game (4th), while also ranking fifth in blocked shots (24), sixth in field goal percentage (.436), seventh in assists per game (2.6) and 12th in minutes per game (30.9).
Glidden, who earned All-Tournament Team accolades at the University of Vermont's TD Bank Classic in November, has led Stonehill in scoring five games, scoring in double-figures 12 times with 20-plus points twice, including a career-high 26 points at LIU on February 16. She has been the Skyhawks top rebounder 16 games, posting a team-high three double-doubles, and has led the team in assists in 11 games, dishing out a career-high seven against Merrimack on February 9.
Glidden has started 58 of her 87 career games played over her Stonehill career. She has totaled 564 points, 496 rebounds, 150 assists and 43 blocked shots over her career. Glidden was recognized by Team IMPACT last summer as a finalist for its "Teammate of the Year" Award.
Stonehill (9-19, 5-10 NEC) closes out its inaugural NCAA Division I season with its NEC finale against Fairleigh Dickinson for Senior Night at Merkert Gymnasium on Thursday at 6 p.m.
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