Briarcliff's Stephen Shine to Compete in Nationals: Daily Sports Digest, March 9, 2012

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Brittany Shields Named To Daktronics East Region Second Team

We thank the Sports Information Department for the below submisison. Congratulations to Shields on her honor and the best to her and her teammates in their playoff game tonight.:

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.- Senior forward Brittany Shields (Cold Spring, NY/Haldane) was named to the Daktronics East Region Second Team after an stand-out season for Pace. Shields was also recently a Northeast-10 Conference First Team All-Conference selection.

Shields led the Setters with 17 points and 10 rebounds per game, while shooting 50.7% from the field on the season. She also posted 12 double-doubles this year. Shields ranks fourth in the NE-10 in scoring, second in rebounds, 12th in field goal percentage and third in double-doubles. She currently ranks 25th in the nation in rebounds, 49th in scoring, 40th in field goal percentage and 26th in double-doubles.

She was named to the NE-10 Weekly Honor Roll 11 times this season. Shields was previously named the NE-10 Rookie of the Year in 2008-09 and was an NE-10 Second Team selection last season. The 5-10 forward started the first three games of the season with three consecutive double-doubles and finished the season with twelve overall.

Shields net a career-high of 17 rebounds against New Haven on February 4. She reached 1,000 career points in a victory over Adelphi on December 6 to become the 25th player to join the 1,000-career point club for Pace University. She currently ranks seventh place in school history with 1,323 points and ranks 11th in rebounds in Pace history with 771 rebounds for her career.

Shields helped lead the Setters to a third place finish in the conference at 20-8 overall record and 16-6 in the conference. The Setters were selected to the NCAA Division II Tournament as the #4 seed and will take on #5 seed Franklin Pierce University on Friday, March 9 at 8:30 at #1 seed and host Bentley University.

Shine Excels

The below was taken from the Briarcliff School District website. We also at Patch congratulate Shine on his accomplishments at the state meet and wish him the best today at the Armory.:

Congratulations to Stephen Shine who ran and finished in 4th place in the NYS Championships and 7th place in the NY Federation in the 1600 Meters. 

On Friday, March 9th, he will finish his first ever Winter Track season at the New Balance Track & Field Center at the Armory where he will compete in the Nationals in the prestigious Emerging Elite two mile competition. 

We wish him another great race!!!

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