Athlete Awards

Athlete of the Week

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Deseria Sanders

  • Award
    Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    5/11/2009
  • Sport
    Women's Track & Field
  • Bio
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WEEK of: MAY 4-10, 2009
Freshman DESERIA SANDERS (Lakewood, NJ/Long Branch) is the NJCU Women's Athlete of the Week for the second consecutive week and the second time in her career. Sanders was also named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week for week eight of the 2009 season after qualifying for the NCAA Championship in the long jump. 

It is her second conference award in as many weeks, after she was named the NJAC Rookie of the Week on May 4.
 
On May 9 at the 2009 NYC Qualifying Challenge at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island, Sanders shattered one of the oldest remaining school records and provisionally qualified for the 2009 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the long jump as she soared 5.60 meters (18-4.5). That distance broke NJCU’s third-oldest school record, bettering the more than the nine-year-old Gothic Knight standard of 5.55 meters (18-2.5) set by Mary Jones on March 25, 2000 in Montclair, NJ. It’s the 22nd best distance in the country this year.
 
Sanders, the 2009 NJAC Rookie of the Year, placed eighth of 14 Division I, II and III athletes in the long jump. Her distance easily surpassed the NCAA provisional mark of 5.47 meters.
 
In the 200-meter dash, she posted her second best time of the year, surpassing the ECAC qualifying standard of 26.12 seconds, to place 11th of 27.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
9/22/2008 Cristhian Acuna Men's Soccer
9/22/2008 Alex Johanesen Women's Volleyball
9/15/2008 Shawn McCormick Men's Soccer
9/15/2008 Jennifer Albuja Women's Soccer
9/8/2008 Jennifer Albuja Women's Soccer
9/8/2008 Cristhian Acuna Men's Soccer
9/1/2008 Cristhian Acuna Men's Soccer
5/26/2008 Marc Robinson Men's Track & Field
5/26/2008 Ebony Barnes Women's Track & Field
5/19/2008 Ebony Barnes Women's Track & Field
5/19/2008 Marcus Lee Men's Track & Field
5/5/2008 Dean McCleese Men's Track & Field
5/5/2008 Ebony Barnes Women's Track & Field
4/28/2008 Baldwin Vargas Baseball
4/28/2008 Lacey Skowronski Softball
4/21/2008 Iris Wilcox Women's Track & Field
4/21/2008 Dean McCleese Men's Track & Field
4/14/2008 Dean McCleese Men's Track & Field
4/14/2008 2007-08 Women's Bowling Team Women's Bowling
4/7/2008 Ebony Barnes Women's Track & Field
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