Canisius’ Johnson and Fairfield’s Armstrong Named Pepsi Zero MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
Canisius’ Johnson and Fairfield’s Armstrong Named Pepsi Zero MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
Malik Johnson
Canisius College
Men’s Basketball
Canisius senior Malik Johnson is the MAAC’s active career leader in games started, assists and steals, and in December, he officially completed his undergraduate degree at Canisius College. In his final semester as a student-athlete, Johnson is currently working toward his master’s degree in sport administration.
Johnson, who has started every game for the Golden Griffins since the start of the 2016-17 campaign, ranks in the top-10 nationally in career starts, career assists and career steals. He is closing in on becoming the school’s 39th 1,000-point scorer, and he is on pace to become just the second player in the program’s 116-year history to dish out 600-plus career assists. As of Feb. 7, he ranks in the top-15 in eight different statistical categories in the MAAC, and he is one of two players in the league to be honored as the conference’s player of the week on multiple occasions this year.
Katie Armstrong
Fairfield University
Women’s Basketball
Armstrong averaged 23 points per game in the Stags’ annual Western New York road trip to meet MAAC foes Niagara and Canisius. The redshirt senior shot .655 from the floor (19-29) and .778 (7-9) from three-point range and added 6.5 rebounds per contest. On the season, Armstrong averages 13.7 points and ranks eighth in the MAAC with a team-leading 7.1 rebounds per game.
In the classroom, Armstrong is a Dean’s List student as a Psychology major.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 39
th year of competition during the 2019-20 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.