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COLON NAMED NCBWA PLAYER OF THE YEAR; PAULINO JOINS HIM ON ALL-REGION TEAMS
May 21, 2021

COLON NAMED NCBWA PLAYER OF THE YEAR; PAULINO JOINS HIM ON ALL-REGION TEAMS

Orangeburg, N.Y. (5/21/21) Dominican College baseball player, Joshua Colon, has been named the 2021 Division II National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Player of the Year as was announced today by the Association. Colon also earned All-East Region First Team accolades, while teammate Richard Paulino was named to the All-East Region Second Team.

2021 D2 NCBWA East All-Region Team  

Orangeburg, N.Y. (5/21/21) Dominican College baseball player, Joshua Colon, has been named the 2021 Division II National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Player of the Year as was announced today by the Association. Colon also earned All-East Region First Team accolades, while teammate Richard Paulino was named to the All-East Region Second Team.

Colon, a senior shortstop from the Bronx, N.Y., picks up his second Player of the Year honors as he was recently named the 2021 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Player of the Year, along with being named to the All-CACC First Team.  He ranked second in the CACC with a .422 batting average. He has homered eight times, while driving in 37 runs and coming around to score 30 times. Colon has pounded out 47 hits this season, which is the third best total in the CACC. He also ranks in the top 10 in doubles, triples, home runs, RBI and total bases. Colon has produced 18 multi-hit games, including a streak of eight straight from April 24-April 30.

Paulino, a junior third basemen from San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, led the CACC in doubles, while ranking in the top 15 in hits, RBI, batting average and total bases.  He leads the team in doubles, is second in RBI, third in hits and fourth in batting average.

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.