EMAIL THIS PAGE

February 11 , 2003

Glenn Stokes earned his first Patriot League Player of the Week award after his 25-point performance against Bucknell.

Glenn Stokes Named Patriot League Player of the Week
Stokes scores game-high 25 points against Bucknell

WASHINGTON - American University’s Glenn Stokes (Silver Spring, Md./Albert Einstein) earned the Patriot League Player of the Week award after he scored 25 points to lead the Eagles to a 70-56 win over Bucknell. Stokes was outstanding from the field, hitting on eight-of-12 field goal attempts and five-of-eight three-pointers.

The 25 points was just two shy of his career-high 27, which he scored against the University of Pennsylvania earlier in the year. Stokes also had three rebounds, three assists and one steal against the Bison. Stokes converted all four of his free throw attempts, and hit a number of big buckets for the Eagles in the second-half, when AU started to put the game out of reach. It is the second time Stokes has won the award in his two years of competing for American.

Stokes has led the Eagles in scoring 11 times this season and leads the team in scoring (15.8 ppg.), steals (33), free throw percentage (85.1), three-pointers made (60), three-point percentage (41.4) and minutes played (715). He is second in three-pointers attempted (145) and third in assists with 44.

Stokes, despite playing in just 51 game, is climbing up the AU statistical ladder in several categories. He is currently seventh in three-pointers made with 101, and is fourth in career three-point percentage at 40.2 percent.

The game against Bucknell was quite a turnaround for Stokes, who struggled in AU’s first game against Bucknell (1/11/03) with a sprained ankle. In the first meeting he managed just six points and one rebound.

American will next play Wednesday when they travel to Navy and play the Midshipmen for a second time this season. The Eagles won the first encounter by 17 points, 70-53. Tip-off is at 7 p.m.

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.