EASTON, Mass. (October 23, 2020) - Registration information as the Stonehill Athletics Task Force to Address Racial Injustice welcomes football alum Brandon Cox '12 for a Zoom presentation to tell his story and that of his high school friend, Danroy "DJ" Henry, who died ten years ago this month.
Monday's Zoom presentation is open to all Stonehill students, faculty and staff, but advance registration is required at the link here.
Brandon Cox, '12
Monday October 26, 7 p.m. via zoom
Presented by Stonehill Athletics Task Force to Address Racial Injustice
Stonehill's Athletics Task Force Against Racial Injustice is proud to welcome back football alum Brandon Cox, '12, a native of Easton, Massachusetts, to tell his story and the story of his close friend and Oliver Ames High School teammate Danroy "DJ" Henry, Jr., who was shot and killed by a white police officer following Pace University's homecoming game against Stonehill ten years ago this month. Brandon was with DJ that night after the two former high school teammates had played against one another in Pace's Homecoming Game earlier in the day and the two student-athletes families had enjoyed a postgame meal near the Pleasanvtille, New York, campus. Brandon was a passenger in DJ's car outside a Pleasantville nightclub and was grazed in the shooting that took the life of DJ. Both Brandon and DJ were unarmed, the officer was not charged in the shooting, and DJ's death has continued to cause many to this day to demand the case be reopened. DJ's family, who still resides in Easton, have started the DJ Henry Dream Fund to honor DJ's legacy by helping kids in Massachusetts achieve their dreams.
With 23 intercollegiate sports, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. Stonehill has won the Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup six times, all coming within the last 15 years. The Skyhawks have received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first nine years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. Stonehill has earned a 95% Academic Success Ranking (ASR) by the NCAA, which considers the academic success rate of the institution based on the graduation rate of student-athletes, good for tenth among all NCAA Division II institutions, with nine Skyhawk teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%. Stonehill won seven NE10 Championships during the 2019-20 academic year, with six programs earning NCAA Division II Championship bids.
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