Monmouth’s Hammond and Marist’s Best Named Hercules Tires MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
Monmouth’s Hammond and Marist’s Best Named Hercules Tires MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
EDISON, N.J. (Feb. 3, 2021) – Monmouth University’s Deion Hammond and Marist College’s Allie Best have been named the Hercules Tires Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Student-Athletes of the Week.
Deion Hammond
Monmouth
Men’s Basketball
Deion Hammond is Monmouth’s leading scorer at 17.5 points per game and the second highest scorer in the conference, and has totaled the third most points in the league despite playing two or three less games than the two above him. Hammond is also seventh in steals, and is currently three three-pointers shy of breaking the Monmouth program record for made threes, which currently stands at 260.
Allie Best
Marist
Women’s Basketball
The Glen Gardner, New Jersey native has set multiple career-highs after emerging as Marist’s starting point guard in her senior year. She has boosted her statistics in multiple facets from a season ago.
On Friday, Jan. 22 at Niagara, Best recorded the 300th assist of her career. Entering Marist’s next series against Rider, she is 13 assists away from entering the top 10 in Marist’s all-time assists list. As of Tuesday, Feb. 2, she is second in the nation with a 5.08 assist/turnover ratio.
Off the court, Best has achieved exceptional results in the classroom. Majoring in Biology, she is a two-time MAAC All-Academic Team selection. She contributed to the program’s 3.818 GPA in the Fall 2020 semester, which was the highest mark among women’s teams at Marist in the term.
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) celebrates its 40
th year of competition during the 2020-21 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.