Charity Iromuanya Named to All-America East Conference Women's Basketball Third Team

West Hartford, Conn. - University at Albany's Charity Iromuanya has been chosen to the 2009-10 America East Women's Basketball All-Conference Team, as announced by the league office on Thursday, March 4 at a reception held at the University of Hartford's Harry Jack Gray Conference Center. Iromuanya was a third-team selection and also made the all-defensive squad. UAlbany's Ebone Henry and Julie Forster were named to the conference's all-rookie squad.

Iromuanya, a 5-foot-8 senior guard from Lincoln, Neb., put up career numbers in several statistical categories. She leads the Great Danes in scoring at 11.4 points per game and is third on the team in rebounding (5.1 pg.) UAlbany's team captain ranks third in the conference in steals (2.4 pg) and is sixth in three-point field goal percentage (.353). Iromuanya reached double figures in scoring 19 times, including a career-high 29-point effort in the team's 64-62 overtime victory at New Hampshire on Feb. 21. She enters the conference tournament ranked seventh on the program's all-time steals list with 211. Iromuanya is averaging 18.6 points over the last five games.

Henry, a 5-foot-10 swing player from San Diego, Calif., scores at an 11.0 clip and also accounts for 5.2 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. All three marks rank second on the team. Henry is also second in the league among rookies behind Forster in rebounding and third among freshmen in scoring. She broke the all-time freshman single-season scoring record in the Great Danes' 62-57 road win over Maine. She currently has 320 points, eclipsing a standard set in 2001-02. In addition, Henry netted a career-high 26 points in a 59-52 overtime victory over Stony Brook to set the Division I freshman single-game scoring record.

Forster, a 6-foot forward from Huntington, N.Y., averages 8.9 points and a conference-best 8.7 rebounds per game. She broke the school's freshman single-game rebounding record by grabbing 20 in the overtime win over New Hampshire, which was two off the overall single-game standard. Forster has pulled down 251 rebounds, the program's freshman single-season record. The walk-on also leads all America East freshmen and ranks fourth overall in blocked shots (1.4 pg).

Since joining America East in 2001-02, UAlbany has produced six players named to the all-conference teams and three named to the all-rookie squads. Iromuanya became the second player named to the all-defensive team since the award was instituted five years ago. The Great Danes, who won four of their last seven conference games to close out the regular season, are seeded seventh in this week's conference postseason championship. They will face second-seeded Vermont, the defending conference champion, in a quarterfinal game on Friday, March 5 at 12:00 p.m. at the University of Hartford's Chase Arena.

Courtesy: UAlbany Sports Information