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CHAMBERS NAMED PRESTOSPORTS/MBWA WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK
February 17, 2009

CHAMBERS NAMED PRESTOSPORTS/MBWA WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE WEEK

White Plains, NY (2/17/09) Althea Chambers (Yonkers, NY) earns this week's PrestoSports/MBWA Player of the Week for leading the Dominican College women's basketball team with 35.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game as the Chargers split a pair of contests. Dominican (14-10; 11-3 CACC) beat Bloomfield 76-57 before falling to Philadelphia University 114-104 in triple overtime

Courtesy of PrestoSports/MBWA

Chambers Dominates for Dominican


White Plains, NY (2/17/09)  Althea Chambers (Yonkers, NY) earns this week's PrestoSports/MBWA Player of the Week for leading the Dominican College women's basketball team with 35.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game as the Chargers split a pair of contests. Dominican (14-10; 11-3 CACC) beat Bloomfield 76-57 before falling to Philadelphia University 114-104 in triple overtime.


The senior guard netted her 1,000th point against Bloomfield. At Philadelphia, she scored a career-high 43 points in the triple overtime loss. For the week, she shot 58.8% from the floor, 80.0% from behind the arc and 92.9% from the charity stripe.

Dominican will travel to Post University on Thursday before celebrating Think Pink Day on Saturday, as they host Chestnut Hill.

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.