Rousseau Earns Academic All-District Honors
Biddeford, Maine, native earns honors for first time with selection to College Division third team by CoSIDA
EASTON, Mass. (February 4, 2010) - Stonehill College junior guard Emily Rousseau (Biddeford, Maine/Biddeford) has earned ESPN The Magazine District I College Division (Divisions II & III) Academic All-America honors for women's basketball, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members in New England and New York.
Rousseau earns Academic All-District honors for the first time with her selection to the third team. She is one of five Northeast-10 student-athletes selected to the three teams and has earned a 3.66 cumulative grade point average while majoring in finance at Stonehill. Rousseau is also an NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll and Athletic Department Honor Roll member.
Rousseau, a second team All-Northeast-10 selection in her first year at Stonehill as a sophomore, has started all 23 games for the Skyhawks this season and is averaging 14.3 points (7th NE-10), 4.4 rebounds, 4.3 assists (8th) and 1.4 steals in 30.7 minutes per game. She leads the NE-10 in three-point percentage, shooting 46.9-percent (38-for-81) from beyond the arc, as part of 46.2% (122-264) shooting from the field (14th) while also converting 77.4% (48-62) of her free-throw attempts (7th). Rousseau ranks second in the NE-10 for assist/turnover ratio and has led the Skyhawks in scoring eight times, including six of their last seven.
Rousseau, who earned NE-10 Player of the Week honors once this
season (two career), is coming off a month of January in which she
averaged a team-best 17.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.8
steals, while shooting 59.6% (56-94) from the field, including a
blistering 67.9% (19-28) from three-point range, and 85.7% (30-35)
from the free-throw line. Since December 5, she is shooting 69%
(29-49) deep.
Rousseau, who transferred to Stonehill from the University of Maine after her freshman season, is closing in on the 1,000-point plateau, having totaled 950 points in 77 career games played - including her 23 appearances (16 starts) at Maine in 2007-08. In 54 career games over two seasons with the Skyhawks, she has 763 points, 242 assists, 203 rebounds and 74 steals. Rousseau was a two-time America East Rookie of the Week at Maine.
Stonehill (17-6, 12-4 NE-10), among teams receiving votes in this week's USA Today/ESPN/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II poll and ranked third 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 at 1 p.m. The Skyhawks next home game is Saturday, February 13, for their WBCA PinkZone event against Saint Michael's College at 1:30 p.m.
