Christina Baxter Named to All-Met Women’s Basketball Second Team

 Thursday, April 9, 2009

Christina Baxter

Christina Baxter Named to All-Met Women's Basketball Second Team

DOBBS FERRY, NY - Mercy College senior guard Christina Baxter (Greenwood Lake, NY) has been named to the 2008-09 Division II Women's Basketball All-Met Second Team as voted by the Met Basketball Writers Association. She will be honored at the 76th annual NIT/MBWA Awards Dinner on Wednesday, April 15th at the Giants Stadium Club in East Rutherford, NJ.

Baxter was also named to the All-East Coast Conference (ECC) Second Team this season for the second year in a row. During her sophomore season she was named to the Third Team and as a freshman she earned Rookie of the Year honors.

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 Tuxedo High School graduate led the conference in assists per game with 6.1 which was good for ninth in the nation. She became the program's all-time leader in assists (538) on the final day of the regular season, and is fifth in scoring (1,501) and seventh in steals (227). She is the only student-athlete in program history to record 1,500 points and 500 assists.

As a senior she established new career highs in scoring with 33 points against Queens College and 12 assists against Concordia College and NYIT. Baxter poured in 31 points against Nyack College and pulled down 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 helped lead the Mavericks to its first conference tournament appearance since 2001-02 season. The Blue & White finished with 10 wins, the most in a single season since 1996-97.

Baxter will graduate from Mercy College in May with a criminal justice major.

The Met Basketball Writers Association awards is the oldest such awards program in the United States. 

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.