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Queens native Jenkins wins Haggerty Award
Charles Jenkins is the first sophomore since Chris Mullin in 1983 to win the Haggerty Award. Photo courtesy Hofstra Athletic Communications.
By FiveBoroSports.com
Springfield Gardens native Charles Jenkins, a sophomore guard at Hofstra University, was named the 76th winner of the Haggerty Award as the 2008-09 All-Metropolitan New York Division I men’s college basketball player of the year, presented by the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA), it was announced today.
Jenkins becomes the fifth Hofstra player to win the Haggerty Award, joining Bill Thieben (1956), Rich Laurel (1977), Speedy Claxton (2000) and Norman Richardson (2001). He also becomes the first sophomore to win the award since Chris Mullin of St. John’s in 1983.
Jenkins had a spectacular sophomore season in leading the Pride to a 21-11 final record. He finished the year averaging 19.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists, making him one of only six players in the nation who averaged at least 19 points, four rebounds and four assists per game.
A 2008-09 first-team All-CAA selection, Jenkins provided numerous clutch points for Hofstra over the course of the season. He scored the Pride’s final eight points in a comeback 76-75 win over East Tennessee State on Nov. 16, including the tying jumper with 59 seconds left and the winning foul shot with 1.1 seconds left. East Tennessee State went on to reach the NCAA Tournament and scare top-seeded Pittsburgh in the opening round.
Jenkins also hit the game winning jumper in the paint with just 1.9 seconds remaining in a 69-68 road win over James Madison on Jan. 24. In the rematch with the Dukes at home on Feb. 18, Jenkins tallied 32 points and 13 assists, the highest assist total for any Hofstra player since Claxton had 13 in a game in the 1997-98 season. He capped off his season by scoring 27 points in a CAA quarterfinal loss to Old Dominion, when he accounted for over half of the Pride’s points in a 52-51 defeat.
In addition, Hofstra coach Tom Pecora, a Queens Village native, earned the MBWA Peter A. Carlesimo Coach of the Year Award. Jenkins and Pecora will both be honored at the annual Haggerty Awards Dinner tonight at the Giants Stadium Club in East Rutherford, N.J.
Pecora earned the Met Coach of the Year honor for the second time in his career, after also earning the distinction in 2005-06 when he led the Pride to a 26-7 record.
Joining Jenkins on the All-Met first team was the St. John’s duo of Paris Horne and D.J. Kennedy, LIU’s Jaytornah Wisseh and Harlem native Jeremy Hazell from Seton Hall. Manhattan’s Darryl Crawford and Brooklyn resident Robert Mitchell from Seton Hall were on the second team, while Fordham freshman Jio Fontan, Eugene Harvey, a Seton Hall guard from Brooklyn, Columbia’s Jason Miller, Manhattan’s Chris Smith, Queens native Scott Machado from Iona and St. Francis guard Ricky Cadell were named to the third team.
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