Damika Martinez Approaches MAAC Women's Basketball All-Time Career Points Mark
MAAC Sports
EDISON, N.J. – Iona Gaels senior guard, Damika Martinez, is set to become the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s all-time career point’s leader in women’s basketball. Martinez, a two-time MAAC Player of the Year (2013 & 2014), is just three points shy of securing the record set by Loyola University of Maryland’s Patty Stoffey in the 1994-95 season when she finished her career with 2,467 points. Over her four-year career, Martinez has scored 2,465 points to date and has obtained numerous accolades along the way. She currently sits 64th all-time on the Division I scoring ledger, and already holds the MAAC record for career three-pointers, set back in December of 2014.
Martinez is the nation's active leader in points with 2,465 and field goals with 897. She also ranks in the top four among active players in career scoring average (20.5 points per game) and three-point field goals (297), while ranking top-10 in three-point field goal percentage (40.2%).
Martinez is averaging 24.0 points per game, third best in the nation this season after she averaged 24.9 points per game for the Gaels last season, which ranked her eighth overall in the country. Martinez's efforts earned her the MAAC Player of the Year award for the second-consecutive season, along with AP All-American Honorable Mention and All-Met Player of the Year recognitions. She was also named to the All-MAAC and All-Met First Teams and All-ECAC Second Team.
Prior to the 2015 season, Martinez was named a Preseason All-American by Sporting News and was named the MAAC Preseason Player of the Year for the third consecutive year, while recently being named a candidate for the 2015 Nancy Lieberman Award, which is given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the nation’s top point guard in NCAA Division I women’s basketball.
Martinez will look to break the record that has stood for 20 years on the national stage this Friday, Feb. 20 when the Gaels take on the Marist Red Foxes at 5:00 p.m. on ESPNU.
The 2014-15 season culminates with the MAAC Basketball Championships at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. March 5-9. Tickets can be purchased here.
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