INDIVIDUAL HONORS

January 28, 2004

American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)

4/29/04 - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced its first-ever AVCA All-America awards for Division III Men's Volleyball. Junior, Jeremy Fontaine earned AVCA 2nd Team All-America for his outstanding performances on the court.

Throughout the 2004 season, the New England Coaches Volleyball Association (NECVA), named the co-captain NECVA New England Player of the Week three times, and NECVA Player of the Week two times. Fontaine was also named to the All-Tournament team at the Endicott Invitational and the NECVA Championships. At the conclusion of the season, Fontaine earned NECVA All-New England 1st Team honors.

Fontaine averaged 6.09 points per game and 5.24 kills per game. His hitting percentage stands at .338, while he averaged .48 service aces per game and 2.26 digs per game.

The AVCA has sponsored a men's collegiate postseason awards program since 1991. However, Division III men's programs competed for the same spots on the AVCA All-America teams with NCAA Division I and II teams. A Division III student-athlete has never been honored on the AVCA Men's All-America Teams in the 13 years since the program was initiated.

NORTHEAST COLLEGIATE VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION HONORS

POSTSEASON

NEW ENGLAND ALL-CONFERENCE
4/15/04 - Jeremy Fontaine and Craig Steszewski were both named to the New England All-Conference Team. This is the second consecutive JR has earned this honor and the first time Craig has achieved it. Both players made major contributions to the teams success this season. While JR holds the majority of the team offensive records, Craig has been the anchor of the teams serve recive and defense. Craig will graduate this spring as the teams first 4-year starter.

NECVA PLAYOFF - ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
4/6/04 - Jeremy Fontaine and Pablo Baez were both named to the NECVA All-Tournament Team. Over the weekend, JR had 57 kills and 30 digs while racking up a team-leading 63.5 points over the three matches. Pablo ran the offense well distributing 116 assists.

NECVA - PLAYER OF THE WEEK

4/4/04 - Jeremy Fontaine is the NECVA Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season after helping lead Endicott into the NECVA semifinals. He averaged 4.85 kills, 3.08 digs, and 0.69 aces per game for the week with a .277 attack percentage. In the first round he hit .500 with 16 kills (16-4-24), eight digs and three aces against York, and followed that up with 19 kills (.414), nine digs, two aces and two blocks against Hunter in the quarterfinals. He landed 22 kills and four aces and defended 13 digs in the semifinals loss to Rivier. Fontaine was named to the NECVA All-Tournament team.

2/16/04 - Jeremy Fontaine averaged 6.8 kills, 1.40 aces and 1.80 digs per game last week as he helped the Gulls extend their win streak to seven matches. Against Lasell he recorded a school record 28 kills. Fontaine hit .857 against Mount Ida with six kills on seven attempts.

NEW ENGLAND DIVISION - PLAYER OF THE WEEK

1/26/04 - Jeremy Fontaine - There were no lollipops on Endicott's schedule this week, and despite losing two matches to nationally-ranked foes, Jeremy Fontaine excelled. In a 3-2 loss to \#10 Roger Williams, he carried the offensive load with a school record 31 kills in the match (31-8-50) to hit .460. It was the first 30+-kill performance in Endicott's history. In a 3-0 loss to \#1-ranked Springfield, he led the team with 5 kills and 5 blocks. For the week he averaged 4.5 kpg and hit .295.

NEW ENGLAND DIVISION - ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

1/26/04 - Eddie Marchand - Endicott made it a clean sweep of the New England Division awards in week one, as rookie opposite Marchand earned Division Rookie of the Week honors. He had 14 kills in a 3-2 loss to \#10-ranked Roger Williams, and four kills in the loss to No. 1 Springfield. He was second on the Gulls in points and offense in both matches.

ABOUT THE NECVA

The North East Collegiate Volleyball Association, the largest Division III men's volleyball conference in the United States, celebrates its 10th anniversary during the 2004 season. Founded in 1995 as the Metro Conference, it became known as the NECVA in 1998. Currently comprised of 32 colleges and universities stretching from New Hampshire to Virginia, M.I.T. and SUNY-New Paltz joined the league this year to reach the current membership figure.

The league is divided into four smaller divisions: CUNY (8), Metro (7), New England (10), and Western (7). Each week, coaches from the four divisions nominate athletes and then vote for the divisional Player and Rookie of the Week awards. The conference sports information office then selects the NECVA Player and Rookie honors from each of these four divisional winners.

The NECVA holds an annual 12-team conference tournament each April with the top three schools in each division earning berths. The NECVA champion receives one of four automatic bids to the Molten Division III Final Four in April.

Michael J, Ricciardi, the Assistant Director of Athletics at Ramapo College is the NECVA Commissioner. Ira Thor, the Director of Sports Information at New Jersey City University serves as the Conference Sports Information Director.