Niagara's Angel Parker, Marcus Hammond earn first-team All-MAAC basketball honors
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Crimson Eagles guard Angel Parker, pictured in opposition to UB previous this season, has been a key contributor in Niagara’s robust marketing campaign.
The accolades proceed to roll in for Angel Parker.
Parker, a junior guard at the Niagara ladies’s basketball group and a Cardinal O’Hara graduate, used to be introduced Monday as a unanimous All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Convention first-team variety. Parker is considered one of two Niagara athletes to earn first-team honors, becoming a member of Marcus Hammond, a guard at the Crimson Eagles males’s basketball group.
Additionally at the ladies’s aspect, Niagara guard Aaliyah Parker and Canisius guard Athina Lexa made the All-MAAC rookie group as unanimous alternatives, and Canisius guard Dani Haskell used to be a third-team variety. Hammond used to be the one males’s variety from both Niagara or Canisius.
Angel Parker earned All-MAAC honors for the second one time at Niagara. She averages 17.5 issues consistent with recreation and leads the country and the MAAC in steals (113) and steals consistent with recreation (4.19).
Hammond, a senior, is the MAAC’s second-leading scorer (18.1 issues consistent with recreation) in males’s basketball and shot 37.3% on 3-pointers (66 for 177) in 28 video games this season. Hammond additionally averaged 2.8 assists and four.9 rebounds this season.
Parker’s sister, Aaliyah, is a freshman guard who led all MAAC novices in scoring (12.2 issues consistent with recreation), led the Crimson Eagles with 6.4 rebounds consistent with recreation, and averaged 2.2 steals consistent with recreation. She additionally used to be named the MAAC Rookie of the Week 8 instances this season.
