Student Athlete of the Week (12-16)

12/17/2013 5:08:00 PM

MAAC Sports

Daniel Stewart – Basketball - Rider University

Senior, Forward, 6-7, 215, Philadelphia, PA./Neumann-Goretti

Daniel Stewart has led the Rider men’s basketball team to a 2-0 start in MAAC play and to a 5-4 record on the season, averaging 16.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. A Preseason Second Team All-MAAC pick, Stewart has played in 109 games at Rider, starting 104, and has compiled 1,116 points and 748 rebounds. His point total is 28^th most ever at Rider while his rebound total is eighth most. In his last three games he has compiled 63 points and 22 rebounds, all coming in Rider victories. Winning is nothing new for Stewart. At Neumann-Goretti High School in Philadelphia his team was 30-1 his senior year, losing only to the No. 1 team in the nation from Texas. As a junior his high school team was 26-3. At Rider, the Broncs have won 60 of the 109 games he has played. A Business Administration major, Stewart was the 2011 MAAC Rookie of the Year and a Freshman All-American. Last year he was a Third Team All-MAAC selection.

Jasmine Martin Women’s Basketball Quinnipiac University

Junior, Guard, 5-6, Sicklerville, N.J./

Jasmine Martin played a pivotal role in Quinnipiac’s lone game last week, a game in which the team knocked off previously unbeaten Albany in convincing fashion, 74-53. The marquee matchup featured a pair of College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 teams, with the Great Danes entering as the fourth ranked team in the census. Martin recorded a team-high 16 points, three assists and one rebound in the big road victory for the Bobcats. She was 6-of-8 from the free-throw line and knocked down four field goals on the afternoon. Now in her third year with the program, Martin is on pace to challenge the all-time career point leaders at Quinnipiac. Martin has 925 points and remains just 75 points shy of 1,000 for her career. She would be the 20^th player in QU history to accomplish the feat. Martin just wrapped up her fifth semester in a demanding communications program at Quinnipiac.