Rudowitz Earns Academic All-District First Team Honors
Monroe Township, N.J., native earns Academic All-District honors for second-straight year, moves on to Academic All-America ballot
EASTON, Mass. (February 4, 2010) - Stonehill College senior forward A.J. Rudowitz (Monroe Township, N.J./Monroe Township) has earned ESPN The Magazine District I College Division (Divisions II & III) Academic All-America honors for men's basketball, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members in New England and New York. With his first team selection, Rudowitz is now eligible for Academic All-America selection by the CoSIDA Academic All-America committee.
Rudowitz earns Academic All-District I honors for the second-straight year, earning first team honors for the first time after collecting second team accolades as a junior. He has earned a 3.37 cumulative grade point at Stonehill while majoring in business management and is a two-time first team Northeast-10 Academic All-Conference selection, earning NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll and Athletic Department Honor Roll honors as well. Rudowitz also actively participates in the Brockton Mentoring Program as a Big Brother. He is the lone NE-10 student-athlete selected to the first or second-team for the second-straight year as well.
Rudowitz, an NABC District All-Star and All-Northeast-10 first team
selection last year, has started all 21 games for Stonehill this
season and is averaging a team-high 14.8 points (14th
NE-10), 7.6 rebounds (8th), 1.8 blocked shots
(6th) and 1.2 steals per game, while adding 2.8 assists
in 30.3 minutes per contest. He is shooting 49.3-percent (111-225)
from the field, including 5-for-11 (45.5%) from three-point range,
while converting 65.9% (83-126) of his free-throws. Rudowitz, a
two-time NE-10 Player of the Week this season (three career), has
led the Skyhawks in scoring eight times this season and in
rebounding ten times, collecting four double-doubles.
Rudowitz is closing in on the top ten on Stonehill's career scoring list, netting 1,424 points in 110 career games played. He sits just 24 points shy of Stonehill Athletic Hall of Fame member Dick Munson's (1962-65) 1,448 points for tenth all-time. Rudowitz has also totaled 766 rebounds, 210 assists, 115 blocked shots and 117 steals over his career. He has netted double-figures in points 81 times, including 13 career 20-plus point games and 15 career double-doubles. Rudowitz was an NE-10 All-Rookie team selection as a freshman.
Stonehill (17-4, 14-2 NE-10), among teams receiving votes in this week's NABC Division II poll and ranked second in the NCAA Division II East Regional rankings for the second-straight week, is back in action on Saturday when it visits the University of Massachusetts Lowell for a key NE-10 clash at 4:30 p.m. The Skyhawks are tied with rival Bentley University atop the NE-10 standings with six games remaining in the regular season. Their next home game is Saturday, February 13, when they host Saint Michael's College at 3:30 p.m.
