Baxter, Levine Earn All-ECC Women’s Basketball Honors for Mercy College
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Baxter, Levine Earn All-ECC Women's Basketball Honors for Mercy College
DOBBS FERRY, NY -
Mercy College senior guard Christina Baxter (Greenwood
Lake, NY) was named to the All-East Coast Conference
Second Team and freshman guard Aimee Levine (Flushing,
NY) was named to the All-East Coast Conference (ECC)
Rookie Team, as announced on Tuesday.
Baxter led the Mavericks in scoring during the regular season and
came in fifth overall in the conference with 16.2 points per game.
The Greenwood Lake native led the conference in assists per game
with 6.1 which is good for ninth in the nation. She became the
program's all-time leader in assists (534) on the final day of the
regular season, and currently stands at fifth in scoring (1482) and
seventh in steals (226).
Baxter established career-highs in points per game (33 vs. Queens)
and assists per game (12 vs. Concordia and NYIT). She also put up
31 points against Nyack and had a career-high nine rebounds. She
reached double figures in points scored in 23-of-27 games played
and had six games with 10 assists or more.
Baxter has received an All-Conference honor every year of her
collegiate career. As a freshman she was named New York Collegiate
Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year. The following year she was
named to the All-ECC Third Team and last year to the Second
Team.
Levine averaged 8.6 points per game, 3.9 rebounds per game and 2.1
assists per game. She scored 21 points against Dowling on 9-of-15
shooting. Against Queens she scored 20 points and added five
rebounds.
Levine also established career highs against Nyack with 10 rebounds
and against Adelphi with eight assists. She finished second in
steals on the team, to Baxter, with 50. Levine flourished in the
second half of the season, starting 11 of the last 12 games and
averaging 12.1 points per game and 4.4 rebounds per game in the
final eight contests.
The No. 7 seeded Mavericks (10-17, 7-11 ECC) will now head into the
ECC Quarterfinals by traveling to play at No. 2 Dowling (20-7, 14-4
ECC) on Wednesday, March 4 at 5 p.m.
About Mercy
College
Mercy College is a New York metropolitan area
college of over 9,000 students studying at five campus locations
including: Dobbs Ferry, Bronx, Manhattan, White Plains, and
Yorktown Heights. With over 90 undergraduate and graduate
programs, Mercy College offers a quality liberal arts and education
within its five schools: Business, Education, Health and Natural
Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Mercy College also offers competitive financial support,
making college affordable. The Mercy College faculty is
dedicated to the scholarship of teaching. Mercy College
professors include Fulbright Scholars, published authors and
national authorities in their fields.
