Northeast Conference Announces
2006-07 Winter Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll
4/26/07
-- The Northeast Conference announced its winter academic
honor roll for the 2006-07 academic year on Tuesday, with Long
Island University contributing 13 student-athletes to the list.
All scholar-athlete award winners must have earned a minimum of
60 semester hours, maintained a minimum cumulative grade-point-average
of 3.20 and participated with distinction as a member of a varsity
team.
The record-setting
women's basketball team, which set a school record for victories
in a season, had four representatives while the two-time Northeast
Conference indoor champion women's track and field team also
had four. The men's track and field squad was the third LIU
team with four members on the honor roll and the men's basketball
team added one. (more)
4Valerie
Nainima Garners Second Team All-Met Honors
4Women’s
Basketball Falls to
Iona in WNIT First Round
4Women’s
Basketball Upset by St. Francis (N.Y.) in NEC Quarterfinals
4Nainima
Makes History as First-Ever NEC Player and Rookie of the Year;
Gaitley Named Coach of the Year
4Women’s
Basketball to Host St. Francis
(N.Y.) in NEC Quarterfinals
4Nainima
Wins NEC Rookie of the Week Award
for 10th Time; Named to PrestoSports/MBWA
Weekly Honor Roll
4Women’s
Basketball Clinches Top Seed With
Win at Saint Francis (Pa.)
4Nainima
and Blackbirds Fight Back But Fall at Robert Morris, 68-64
4Nainima
and Oblak Lead Long Island Past Fairleigh Dickinson, 72-61
4Blackbirds
Come Back to Force Overtime But
Fall to Quinnipiac
4Women's
Basketball Extends Winning Streak
to 13; Drops Central Connecticut
State, 58-46
4Valerie
Nainima Breaks Northeast Conference
Record With Ninth Choice Hotels/NEC
Rookie of the Week Award
4Women's
Basketball Looks to Avenge Only
Conference Loss Against Central
Connecticut State This Evening
4Women’s
Basketball Matches Program Record
for Wins; Defeats Monmouth for
12th Consecutive Victory
4Valerie
Nainima Ties Record With Eighth Choice
Hotels/Northeast Conference
Rookie of the Week Award
4Oblak
Leads Women’s Basketball
Past Wagner for 11th Consecutive
Win
4Women’s
Basketball Pulls Away From Sacred
Heart, 57-48, for 10th Consecutive
Win
4Nainima
Wins Seventh Choice Hotels/Northeast
Conference Rookie of the Week Award
4Blackbirds
Break School Record With Ninth
Straight Victory; Defeat Quinnipiac,
69-65
4Women’s
Basketball Stretches Win
Streak to Eight With Victory
at Wagner
4Women's
Basketball Sweeps NEC Weekly Awards;
Whippy Named Player of the Week and
Nainima Garners Sixth Rookie of the
Week Honor
4Blackbirds
Win Seventh Straight, Dispatch Fairleigh
Dickinson, 60-47
4Whippy
Three-Pointer Helps Women's Basketball
Hang On To 61-55 Win Over Robert
Morris
4Whippy
Three-Pointer Helps Women's Basketball
Hang On To 61-55 Win Over Robert
Morris
4Valerie
Nainima Earns Fifth Northeast Conference
Rookie of the Week Award
4Women's
Basketball Runs Away With 80-52
Win Over Saint Francis (Pa.)
4Oblak
and Nainima Lead Long
Island Past The Mount,
76-41
4Blackbirds
Survive Comeback Attempt, Defeat
NJIT 60-51
4Women's
Basketball Concludes Non-Conference
Slate With Home Tilt Against NJIT
4Second-Stanza
Surge Lifts Long
Island Over Monmouth,
64-50
4Nainima Racks Up Fourth NEC Rookie of the Week Nod
4Long
Island Edged By East Carolina, 80-73
4Blackbirds
Bounce Back Big, Breeze by Northeastern,
74-61
4Valerie
Nainima Earns Third Choice Hotels NEC
Rookie of the Week Award
4Central
Connecticut
State Snaps
Women's
Basketball's
Six-Game
Winning
Streak
With Last-Minute
Effort
4Blackbirds
Go For
Program
Record-Tying
Seventh
Straight
Win at
CCSU
4Women's
Basketball
Continues
Hot Streak;
Extends
Winning
Streak
to Six
With
Victory
over
St. Francis
(N.Y.)
4Women's
Basketball
Looks
for
Sixth
Straight
Victory;
Hosts
St.
Francis
(N.Y.)
in
Battle
of
Brooklyn
4Blackbirds
Defeat
Dayton
For Fifth
Straight
Win, 67-63
4Blackbirds
Survive
Scare to
Hold Off
Navy, 51-49
4Marquita
Thompson Named Northeast
Conference Player of
the Week; Valerie Nainima
Notches Second Rookie
of the Week Honor
4Women's
Basketball Moves Into Championship Game of LIU Turkey
Classic With 62-52 Victory Over Cleveland State
4Women's
Basketball Moves Into
Championship Game of
LIU Turkey Classic
With 62-52 Victory
Over Cleveland State
4Nainima's
30 Points Lead Long Island
in Rout of Siena
4Comeback
Falls Short as Hofstra
Outlasts Long Island, 68-57
4Valerie
Nainima Named Choice
Hotels NEC Women's
Basketball Rookie of the
Week
4Women's
Basketball Falls to Lehigh, 57-36
4Women's
Basketball Drops Overtime
Heartbreaker to St. Peter's,
76-73
4Balanced
Effort Leads Women's Basketball
Past N.Y. Gazelles, 82-71,
in Exhibition Opener
4Women's
Basketball Predicted to Finish Fifth in Northeast Conference
Preseason Coaches' Poll
4Men's
and Women's Basketball
Schedules Released
4Women's
Basketball,
Volleyball
Team
Up
To
Help
Community
Children
4Hardy
Joins
Women's
Basketball
Staff
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