JERSEY CITY, NJ…New Jersey City University men’s basketball junior All-America guard
DANA JOHN (Hillside, NJ/Pocono Mountain East (Pa.)) will be featured on ESPN Television on Tuesday, December 11 at 7 p.m. when his remarkable day-in-the-life story is told as part of a special edition of the primetime Newsmagazine program
E:60. The segment of the show is entitled “The Most Exhausted Man in Sports.”
For John, it is the third major national exposure he—and the NJCU men’s basketball program—has received in the last week. John is also featured in a five-page article in the December 17, 2007 issue of ESPN The Magazine, currently on newsstands. On December 5, his story was introduced on the program ESPN First Take on ESPN2.
It will also be the third time in known NJCU athletics history that a Gothic Knight athlete or team will appear on ESPN Television; the women’s bowling team competed in front of ESPN’s cameras in the 2004 National Collegiate semifinal. The Worldwide Leader in Sports, ESPN is available in more than 93 million households in the United States alone, and in numerous countries around the world.
The ESPN program will chronicle a typical 24-hour day in John’s life during the basketball season. John, the 27-year-old star shooting guard for the Division III NJCU men’s basketball program, has had his tale of perseverance, diligence and dedication highlighted in numerous national publications and on local, regional and national television over the last two seasons since breaking onto the scene as among the top guards in the country.
For three years, he has managed to balance a successful basketball career with a full-time, five-day-per-week job with the United States Post Office—working the graveyard from midnight to 8:30 a.m. Monday thru Friday—while maintaining a full-time academic course load, basketball practice/games, and family commitments that include caring for his four-year-old son and handicapped nephew. He is majoring in Special Education at NJCU.
After never playing organized basketball at any level prior to attending NJCU as a freshman in 2005-06, he had emerged into perhaps the top player in the Atlantic Region.
This season he has already become NJCU’s all-time leader in career three-pointers with 167 and counting and needs just 13 more points to become the 26th member of the 1000-point club. He has scored 20 or more in four of NJCU’s first seven games and currently averages 21.7 per game.
John was selected to the 2007 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Men’s Basketball First-Team as a forward, in voting by the region’s head coaches and to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) First-Team All-Atlantic District. He was also named to the D3Hoops.com First-Team All-Atlantic Region in voting by the region’s sports information directors and tabbed First-Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference.
John, who was honored by the New York Knicks on April 16, 2007 with its Sweetwater Clifton “City Spirit” Award, most recently appeared on television on April 1, 2007 in a story by the MSG Network as part of the program MSG, NY. On March 12, 2007, he was featured on WWOR-TV/My-9 New York.
On February 19, 2007, he became the first men's basketball player on record to be featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd. On February 22, 2007, he was featured in an article on Sports Illustrated.com. His story has been told by several local and national newspapers and websites, including the NCAA’s ncaasports.com and D3Hoops.com.
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