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2021–22 MANHATTAN MEN’S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

MEN’S ROSTER

WOMEN’S ROSTER

QUICK FACTS LOCATION RIVERDALE, NY NICKNAME JASPERS COLORS GREEN & WHITE YEAR FOUNDED 1853

No.

Name

Cl. Sr.

Pos.

Ht.

Wt. 240 175 175 180

Hometown

No.

Name

Cl. Jr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Gr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. So.

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown

0 1 2 3 4 5

Warren Williams

F

6-9 6-0 6-2 6-4

Kingston, Jamaica

1 3 4 5

Dee Dee Davis

G

5-8

Bronx, NY

PLAYER TO WATCH A preseason All-MAAC First Team selection, Courtney Warley has been a stalwart for the Jaspers over her five seasons in the Green and White. The four-time All-MAAC selection passed the1,000-point and rebound milestones this season and became the second player in program history to reach both milestones in a career. Warley ranks in one of eight active players with 1,000 career rebounds. The Lancaster, PA, native is among the active leaders with 28 career double-doubles while ranking in the top 20 in steals with over 220 for her career. In 2019–20, Warley became just the eighth Jasper in program history to earn All-MAAC First Team honors, averaging 11.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 2.4 steals per game. As a sophomore, she became just the second Jasper to be named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year and earned inclusion on the All-MAAC Third Team after being named to the MAAC Rookie Team as a freshman. NOTABLE ALUMNI Former Manhattan player Sandy Gordon was named to the 2019 MAAC Honor Roll in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. One of the top playmakers in school history, Gordon continues to hold the program record for assists with 592. As a sophomore in 1985–86, she averaged 7.0 points and 5.5 assists while winning MVP honors in the Loyola Invitational Tournament. As a junior in 1986–87, she handed out a school-record 220 assists (7.3 per game) while guiding the Jaspers to 20 wins, the program’s first-ever MAAC title, and a date with Duke in the NCAA Tournament.

Matthew Glassman

Sr.

G G G

Bedford, NH

Brazil Harvey-Carr

F

6-1

Camden, NJ

Romar Reid

Jr.

Mount Vernon, NY

Jessica Lee

G G

5-10

Sewell, NJ

PRESIDENT DR. BRENNAN O’DONNELL, PH. D. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MARIANNE REILLY (1982) HOME COURT DRADDY GYMNASIUM (2,520)

Ant Nelson

Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr.

New York, NY

Bella Nascimento

5-8

Grafton, MA

Samir Stewart

G 6-0 180

Fort Lauderdale, FL

10 11 12 13 14 15 20 21 22 24 25 33

Sini Makela

G 5-8 Helsinki, Finland G 5-10 Staten Island, NY G 5-9 New Rochelle, NY

Samba Diallo

F F F

6-7 195 6-10 220 6-9 220

Rufisque, Senegal

Emily LaPointe

10 11 12 15 21 23 24 30 55

Adam Cisse

Bronx, NY

Nia Bailey

Daniel Schreier

Santa Monica, CA

Helena Galunic

F

6-1 Zagreb, Croatia

Aryan Arora

G 6-1 175

Tuxedo Park, NY

Lindsay Drozd

G/F 6-0 Hastings-On-Hudson, NY

Jose Perez

F

6-5

220

Bronx, NY

Sydney Watkins

G 5-8

Wanaque, NJ

Daniel Hackett

G 6-1 175

Commack, NY

Jade Blagrove

F

6-2

Barendrecht, Netherlands

Josh Roberts

F

6-9

220

Troy, AL

Christina Katsamouri

G/F 6-0 Thessaloniki, Greece

Marques Watson

G

6-5 190

Brooklyn, NY

Courtney Warley

Gr.

C 6-3

West Chester, PA

PLAYER TO WATCH Jose Perez has made an immediate impact in Riverdale in his first season in the Green and White. The forward is among the league leaders in points and assists per game while playing over 30 minutes a night. The Bronx, N.Y. native earned MAAC and Metropolitan Player of the Week honors for the week of Jan. 17 after averaging 30 points, four assists, two rebounds, and a steal per game while shooting 48-percent from the floor and 86-percent from the free-throw line. He scored 33 points in a win against Canisius (Jan. 16) and 32 in a win over Siena (Jan.21). Also scored at least 20 points in five of the Jaspers’ first six MAAC games. NOTABLE ALUMNI TimCain ’85 graduated as the program’s all-time leading scorer and remains the lone Jasper to earn All- MAAC honors in each of his four seasons in Riverdale. Cain began his illustrious career by being named the MAAC Rookie of the Year while also collecting first-team honors after averaging 15.3 points per game and 5.5 rebounds per game as a freshman in 1981–82. He followed that up by notching 17.7 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore before checking in with a career-high 20.9 points per game and 6.1 rebounds per game as a junior in 1983–84, and was named to the All-Metropolitan First Team. Thanks to a senior campaign in which he averaged 15.5 points per game, he finished his career with a then school record of 1,872 points (currently third) on the strength of a still-standing record of 776 field goals.

Elijah Buchanan

G 6-5 190

Bronx, NY

Becca Wilson

Jr.

C 6-4 Mount Vernon, NY

Nick Brennen

G 6-5

180

Irvington, NY

Petra Juric

Fr.

F F

6-2 Zagreb, Croatia

Jenna Jordan

Jr.

6-1 Valley Cottage, NY

Head Coach: Steve Masiello (Kentucky) – 11 th Season Chief of Staff, Director of Scouting: Matt Grady (Saint Joseph’s) – 11 th Season Associate Head Coach: Rashawn Stores (Manhattan) – Fifth Year Assistant Coaches: Tyler Wilson (Manhattan) – Fifth Year, Anthony Doran (St. Johns) – First Year, Scott Padgett (Kentucky) – First Year

Head Coach: Heather Vulin (Minnesota-Morris, ’99) – Sixth Season Assistant Coaches: Allie Bassetti (Rowan, ’13) – Sixth Season, Callan Stores (Sacred Heart, ’12) – Sixth Season, Rena Wakama (Western Carolina, ’14) – Fifth Season Director of Basketball Operations: Kiki Griffin (Davidson, ’18) – Third Season Recruiting Coordinator: Allie Bassetti (Rowan, ’13) – Sixth Season

HEAD COACH HEATHER VULIN Heather Vulin was named the eighth head coach in Manhattan College program history on April 25, 2016. The 2021–22 season is her sixth at the helm of the Jaspers. A 1999 graduate of Minnesota-Morris, she began her career as a graduate assistant at North Dakota State from 2000-02, then spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Sacred Heart from 2002–08. Vulin was on staff at Villanova for seven seasons (2008–15) before spending the 2015–16 campaign as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Virginia Tech. Vulin has continued to raise the standard for the women’s basketball program since she arrived at Manhattan. She mentored Gabby Cajou to the program’s first Sixth Player of the Year award in 2018 and Courtney Warley to the program’s second MAAC Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2019. In 2020, Warley became the seventh player in program history to earn All-MAAC First Team honors. The Jaspers earned their first postseason appearance under Vulin in 2021. Manhattan earned a bid to the Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI).

HEAD COACH STEVEMASIELLO Led Manhattan to back-to-back MAAC Championships in 2014 and 2015. Masiello is one of just nine active Division I coaches with a National Title as a player. A two-time Metropolitan Coach of the Year (2012, 2014), he owns a school-record 11 MAAC Tournament wins. Masiello was an assistant on Manhattan’s 2003 and 2004 MAAC Championship squads. With his victory last January at Quinnipiac, he moved past former student-athlete, coach, and MAAC Hall of Fame honoree Jack Powers into third place in school history on the all-time Jaspers’ wins list. Masiello also set a school record for wins at Draddy Gymnasium last year against Rider. During his 25-year collegiate career as a player and a coach, has advanced to the NCAA Tournament 13 times and been a member of eight conference championship outfits. Masiello has coached five MAAC major award winners and 19 All-MAAC performers during his time in Riverdale.

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