ROTIO, LASKOWSKI NAMED TO ALL-CACC TEAM

February 27, 2008

ROTIO, LASKOWSKI NAMED TO ALL-CACC TEAM

Blauvelt, NY (2/27/08) Dominican College women's basketball players, Dana Rotio and Adele Laskowski, have been named to the All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Second Team as was released by the conference office today. Althea Chambers received Honorable Mention honors.

ROTIO, LASKOWSKI NAMED TO ALL-CACC TEAM

Junior Althea Chambers Receives Honorable Mention Honors

Blauvelt, NY (2/27/08) Dominican College women's basketball players, Dana Rotio and Adele Laskowski, have been named to the All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Second Team as was released by the conference office today. Althea Chambers received Honorable Mention honors.

Rotio, a senior guard from Garfield, NJ, is one of this year's captains. She has started all 26 games this year and is averaging 11.2 points per game and is shooting 73.6% from the charity stripe this season. She is leading the team and ranked fifth in the CACC with 90 assists and has a CACC leading 86 steals on the season. Rotio was the 20th player to reach the 1,000th point mark, scoring her 1,000th point against the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia on 12/21/07. To date, she has scored 1,207 to place her ninth on the DC Lady Chargers All-Time Scoring list, 347 assists to place her in the Lady Charger All-Time top ten and 300 steals to place her fifth on the All-Time Steals list.

Laskowski, a sophomore forward from Wayne, NJ, has been a starter for the past two seasons. She is leading the team averaging 12.3 ppg and is second on the team with 68 assists. Laskowski leads the team averaging 32.5 minutes per game and is shooting 72.7% from the free throw line. She is ranked 14th in the CACC in scoring and received All-CACC Honorable Mention Honors last season.

Chambers, a junior from Yonkers, NY, has been a Lady Charger captain for the last two seasons. She is second on the team in scoring, averaging 11.8 ppg and leads DC with 6.7 rebounds per game. She is in the top twenty in scoring and rebounding in the CACC.

Below is the complete 2008 All-CACC Women Basketball Teams.

First Team

C	Erin Chesnavich	USP	So.	Pittston, NJ
F	Toni Jones	Goldey-Beacom	Sr.	Lewes, DE
G	Kelly Killion	Holy Family	Sr.	Pennsauken, NJ
C	Jessica Romano	Philadelphia	So.	Horsham, PA
F	Amelia Simmons	Wilmington	So.	Wilmington, DE
		Second Team
F	Catherine Carr	Holy Family	Fr.	Bernardsville, NJ
C	Nordia Henry	Wilmington	Sr.	Philadelphia, PA
F	Adele Laskowski	Dominican	So.	Wayne, NJ
G	Dana Rotio	Dominican	Sr.	Garfield, NJ
F	Ashley Webster	Philadelphia	Sr.	Philadelphia
		Third Team
G	Ciera Darby	Bloomfield	Sr.	Trenton, NJ
G	Sherelle Holmes	Wilmignton	Sr.	Philadelphia, PA
F	Mackenzie Lynch	Caldwell	Jr.	Wayne, NJ
C	Christine McCollum	Holy Family	So.	Abington, PA
F	Allison Weiss	USP	Jr.	Springfield, PA

Honorable Mention: Althea Chambers, Jr., G, Dominican; Marissa Franklin, Sr., F, Bloomfield; Dana Leary, Sr., G, Caldwell

Player of the Year: Kelly Killion, Sr., G, Holy Family

Rookie of the Year: Catherine Carr, Fr., F, Holy Family

Coach of the Year: Mike McLaughlin, Holy Family

Team Sportsmanship Award: Chestnut Hill College and Felician College

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.