Getting to Know Your AE Athletes Ep. 3

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2011-2012 By the Numbers

As the 2012 seasons draw to a close, AExtra decided to break down the year. All-Americans, attendance, goals, points – we’ll crunch the numbers.

0 – The number of yellow cards the Boston University women’s soccer team received this year on its way to a fifth straight conference title.

1 – Stony Brook’s Lucy Van Dalen won the National championship in the indoor mile. The Seawolves’ women’s tennis team captured its first conference crown and became the first team seeded third or lower to do so. The Albany women’s basketball team made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament after winning its first conference title.

Boston U. celebrates a fifth straight title.

3 – The Number of teams to win NCAA Tournament games, with more potentially on the way (Stony Brook baseball). Boston University defeated Harvard in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament, Vermont downed Lamar in an NCAA Tournament First Four game in Dayton, Ohio and the Boston U. softball team earned a win over Iona in the Berkeley regional.

4 – The number of America East field hockey teams to finish in the Top 25 of the final RPI ratings. The conference as a whole ranked third in the nation only behind the ACC and Big 10.

5 – Three championship win streaks reached five this year when the Boston U. women’s soccer, Binghamton men’s tennis and Stony Brook women's cross country teams achieved a half-decade of dominance in their respective sports.

8 – Stony Brook men’s soccer player Leo Fernandes tied a conference tournament record by tallying eight points over two games (3 goals and 2 assists) to lead the Seawolves back to the NCAA Tournament.

15 – The combined indoor and outdoor track and field championship streak for the Albany men. The Great Danes won their seventh straight indoor title and eighth consecutive outdoor crown this year. Albany also became the first team to sweep the cross country, indoor and outdoor team titles since 1998.

UNH's Whitney Frates

17 – The combined Rookie of the Week Awards for men’s basketball players Justin Edwards and Four McGlynn and men’s lacrosse player Mike Rooney.

18 – A collection of the America East student-athletes that put together some of the finest seasons in the country earning All-American honors. Field hockey led the way producing five All-Americans this year led by first-team member and Northeast Player of the Year, New Hampshire’s Whitney Frates.

.337 – Stony Brook baseball’s team batting average, which ranks second nationally, as it enters the Coral Gables regional of the NCAA Tournament. Travis Jankowski and Max Tissenbaum boosted that average significantly hitting at .411 and .400 clips to lead the club.

.461/.559/.914 – The slash line generated by Albany softball player Charlise Castro. The America East Player of the Year became just the second player in league history to win the Triple Crown (.461 BA, 13 HR, 53 RBI).

26,671 – The total combined attendance of the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Newman’s Own and the men’s and women’s championship games.

Daily Word: Destination South Beach

Playing against the some of the best competition in the nation is nothing new for the Stony Brook baseball team. Just ask the six Seawolves who suited up for Cape Cod League teams last summer. So when the Miami Hurricanes sit in the opposing dugout on Friday down in South Beach, you can bet intimidation will be no issue.

That, according to a piece in Newsday today, is one reason to not count Stony Brook out despite playing as the No. 4 seed in the Coral Gables regional matched up against a program that has made 40 straight NCAA Tournament appearances.

“We were facing the best players in the nation day in and day out,” Travis Jankowski told Newsday about his time on the Cape. “When we go to a regional and we're playing the best 64 teams in college baseball, we kind of know we can compete with these guys at a high level.”

In fact, Jeremy Mills of ESPN considers the Seawolves to be the toughest No. 4 seed and Miami has one of the most difficult roads to a Super Regional.

Ranked in the top-10 nationally in three statistical categories as a team, including second in team batting average, Stony Brook leads the country in winning percentage and boasts an explosive lineup. Willie Carmona is one of multiple Stony Brook bats that can erupt at any given moment. Newsday has more on Carmona.

You can read more on Stony Brook’s regional appearance, here.

Binghamton’s new head men’s basketball coach Tommy Dempsey has only been on the job for a few days now but already he’s making an impact. The Press and Sun Bulletin has a story about how things will be more up tempo in Vestal next season.

The Hartford men’s and women’s basketball programs held a golf outing last week and from the looks of it, women’s coach Jen Rizzotti can hold her own on a putting green.

Having already qualified for the London Olympics in the 100 freestyle for his native Egypt, UMBC’s Mohamed Hussein broke his country’s record in the 200 IM to qualify in that event as well. He becomes the first Egyptian swimmer to qualify for two events in the same Olympic Games. The Baltimore Sun has more.