Saint Augustine’s College’s Valicia Brown, Rebecca Hubbard, Dorothy Vernoy and Issreal Jaimes were selected to the 2006 CIAA Commissioner’s All-Academic Team announced Tuesday.
The All-Academic Team consists of 20 student-athletes including 10 first-team and 10 second-team selections. Brown and Hubbard are on the first team, and Vernoy and Jaimes were named to the second team. Saint Augustine’s has the second-highest number of student-athletes on the All-Academic team.
The cumulative grade point averages of Brown, Hubbard and Vernoy helped Saint Augustine’s win the CIAA highest GPA award among women’s basketball teams for the third straight year.
Brown, a junior from Riverdale, Md., was named to the All-Academic first team after being a CIAA All-Academic honorable mention in 2005. A communications major with a 3.773 grade point average, Brown made the 2006 All-CIAA women’s basketball team for the second straight season. She led the Lady Falcons to a 17-12 overall record with a team-high 14.6 scoring average at shooting guard.
Academically, Brown was on the Presidential, Honors and Dean’s List and was Miss Saint Augustine’s College for the 2005-06 school year.
Hubbard, a psychology major from Berlin, Germany, posted a 4.00 grade point average while competing in three sports - cross country, women’s basketball and outdoor track and field. She is one of three student-athletes on the All-Academic team with a 4.00 GPA. In cross country, Hubbard finished 29th out of 72 female runners in the 2005 CIAA Cross Country Championships to help Saint Augustine’s College finish second in the women’s team standings.
The Saint Augustine’s sophomore was a key guard-forward reserve on the women’s basketball team and a member of the Falcons’ women’s track and field team which placed second in the 2006 CIAA outdoor championships. Hubbard earned the distinction of having the highest GPA among Saint Augustine’s student-athletes.
Vernoy, a second-team selection, is a forensic science major with a 3.949 GPA, the second-highest among Saint Augustine’s student-athletes. Despite missing 10 games with a knee injury, Vernoy was second on the Lady Falcons basketball team in assists. The Frederick, Md., native is in the Alpha Phi Sigma society in addition to being on the Dean’s, Honors and Presidential Lists.
Jaimes, a second-team pick, is an outstanding distance runner who excels in the classroom. He recently was named to ESPN The Magazine All-District men’s track and field/cross country team in the District 3 College Division. An accounting major with a 3.868 GPA, Jaimes placed second individually in leading Saint Augustine’s to the 2005 CIAA men’s cross country crown. The Falcons’ junior from Wilson, N.C., also placed third in the 5000-meter run at the 2006 CIAA outdoor track and field championships.
To be eligible, a student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at a CIAA institution, earned a minimum 3.20 overall grade point average and played as a starter or important reserve in a CIAA sanctioned sport.
FIRST TEAM
Name Sport School Year Hometown GPA Major
Valicia Brown & Basketball SAC Junior Riverdale, MD 3.773 Communications
Shannon Davis %$ Bowling WSSU Senior Detroit, MI 3.802 Business/Sport Manag.
Ffion Fletcher % Tennis SU Senior Montego Bay, Jam. 4.00 Computer Info. Systems
Carlos Gutierrez & Baseball ECSU Senior Bronx, NY 3.548 Physical Education
Tanisha Hall # Tennis SU Senior Montego Bay, Jam. 3.94 Business Administration
Rebecca Hubbard Basketball, X-Country, Track SAC Soph. Berlin, Germany 4.00 Psychology
Monique Lawson % Tennis SU Junior Montego Bay, Jam. 3.96 Sociology
Daniel Sabogal # Tennis SU Junior Cali, Columbia 3.90 Business Administration
Clarisse Steans # Softball NCCU Junior Macon, GA 3.37 Physics
Steve Wright #@ Golf NCCU Senior Durham, NC 3.85 Elementary Education
SECOND TEAM
Bobby Bienaimee & Basketball JCSU Senior Miami, FL 3.82 Computer Info. Systems
Bridgette Booker Bowling VSU Senior Blackstone, VA 3.851 Criminal Justice
Issreal Jaimes Cross Country, Track SAC Junior Wilson, NC 3.868 Accounting
Andrew Jones Tennis WSSU Soph. Thomasville, NC 4.00 Business Administration
Jermaine LaFate & Football VSU Senior Wilmington, DE 3.861 Mass Communication
Emily Nwakpuda Tennis NCCU Junior Durham, NC 3.78 Chemistry
Chad Oakley #@ Football WSSU Senior Haw River, NC 3.924 Exercise Science
Marquita Pittman Softball SU Soph. Ford Heights, IL 3.93 Political Science
Brittany Sumpter Basketball JCSU Junior Orangeburg, SC 3.52 Communication Arts
Dorothy Vernoy Basketball SAC Soph. Frederick, MD 3.949 Forensic Science
# = 2005 First Team
% = 2005 Second Team
& = 2005 Honorable Mention
$ = 2004 First Team
@ = 2004 Second Team
CIAA School Reference:
BSU = Bowie State University
ECSU = Elizabeth City State University
FSU = Fayetteville State University
JCSU = Johnson C. Smith University
LC = Livingstone College
NCCU = North Carolina Central University
SAC = Saint Augustine’s College
SPC = Saint Paul’s College
SU = Shaw University
VSU = Virginia State University
VUU = Virginia Union University
WSSU = Winston-Salem State Universit
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