Mychal Kearse Named NEC Co-Defensive
Player of the Year
Release: 02/28/2007
Mount St. Mary's senior Mychal Kearse (Charlotte,
N.C./Providence Day) has been named the Northeast Conference
Co-Defensive Player of the Year. Freshman Jeremy Goode
(Charlotte, N.C./Providence Day) was named to the NEC All-Rookie
team. Central Connecticut State senior guard Javier Mojica was
selected as the 2006-07 Northeast Conference Player of the Year
in a vote conducted by league head coaches.
Monmouth freshman guard Jhamar Youngblood was named NEC Rookie
of the Year, while Central Connecticut State junior guard
Tristan Blackwood shared Defensive Player of the Year honors
with Kearse. The Jim Phelan Coach of the Year honor was awarded
to Central Connecticut State’s Howie Dickenman for the second
straight season.
Kearse becomes the first two-time winner of the league’s
Defensive Player of the Year award, which is all the more
remarkable considering his long road to recovery from offseason
knee surgery. The senior maintained his reputation as a
defensive stopper on a Mount team that finished the regular
season third in the NEC in scoring defense at 68.4 ppg. A
Charlotte, NC product, he ranks 15th in the conference with 1.4
steals per contest. Kearse ranks 11th all-time at the Mount in
steals.
A point guard, Goode made a seamless transition to the Mount
starting lineup early on and finished the regular season with a
school freshman record 144 assists. A three-time Choice
Hotels/NEC Rookie of the Week award winner, the super-quick
Goode is third on the team with 10.2 ppg, and ranks third in the
NEC in steals (1.9 spg) and fourth in assists (5.0 apg) and
assist-to-turnover ratio (1.58:1).
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