Lizzelle Cintron - New Jersey City
Senior, Middle Blocker, 5-9 (Elizabeth, N.J. - Elizabeth High School)
Photo courtesy NJCU athletics.
Lizzelle Cintron, a senior
middle blocker for New Jersey City University, has been named the Sports
Imports/AVCA Division III National Player of the Week. In addition to this
national player of the week nod, the sixth time she's earned the award in
her career, Cintron was named New Jersey Athletic Conference Player of the
Week for the third week in a row and the 15th time in three years. She also
became the first player in the history of the conference and the fourth in
Division III history to record 2,500 career kills. In the Gothic Knights’
six matches last week, Cintron hit at a .398 clip, and averaged 5.79 kills,
3.83 digs, 1.21 blocks and 6.81 points per game. In five of the matches, she
notched double-doubles, to extend her career double-double achievement to 95
matches. Her top performances of the week came against Richard Stockton and
Gettysburg. In the match against Richard Stockton, she had 31 kills (.481
hitting percentage) and 19 digs, while against Gettysburg she put away 37
kills (.306 hitting percentage) and 21 digs. Cintron is the only player from
New Jersey City University to be named Sports Imports/AVCA Division III
National Player of the Week. The Gothic Knights are coached by Christopher
Feliciano, who recently recorded his 100th career
win on September 20.
