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With the annual Stockton Athletics awards brunch canceled this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stockton Athletics is saluting its student-athletes via this virtual awards recognition. All 19 intercollegiate teams are represented with videos featuring seniors and award winners.
For spring sports, award winners from the previous season are featured along with seniors from the current season due to the usual timing of the brunch on the last Sunday in April. Videos for the spring sports teams include awards from Spring 2019 along with seniors from Spring 2020.
In addition to the seniors and award winners, this virtual awards recognition includes highlight videos from two conference championship teams, 2019 Men's Lacrosse and 2019 Volleyball, plus the announcement of the Stockton Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
Stockton University garnered two postseason awards and three all-conference selections from the New Jersey Athletic Conference for the 2019-20 men's basketball season. Freshman DJ Campbell (Vineland/Vineland) was selected NJAC Rookie of the Year and head coach Scott Bittner was voted NJAC Coach of the Year by his peers.
Sophomore Kyion Flanders (Wildwood/Wildwood) was chosen to the NJAC First Team while Campbell and senior Jordan Taylor (East Orange/Cicely Tyson) picked up NJAC Honorable Mention nods. All three Ospreys received all-conference recognition for the first time in their careers.
Stockton University men's basketball teammates Zy'are Griffin (Atlantic City/ACIT) and Danny Moeller (Voorhees/Eastern) qualified for the 2020 NABC Honors Court from the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
The NABC Honors Court recognizes men's basketball players in all three NCAA Divisions plus the NAIA for their academic achievement. In order to qualify, players must be a junior or senior with a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher at the conclusion of the 2019-20 academic year. Griffin played his junior season while Moeller completed his career as a senior this winter.
The Stockton men's basketball team was a young squad that surprised the NJAC this season. Picked in the preseason to place seventh by the league's coaches, the Ospreys finished tied for first in the conference with a 14-4 mark and reached the NJAC championship game.
