Staten Island's Alarcon, Sarcone Sweep MBWA Division II Player, Coach of the Year Awards

Release courtesy of Chuck Stogel, MBWA NEW YORK – Jenalyse Alarcon of the College of Staten Island has been named the All-Met Division II women’s college basketball Player of the Year for 2024-25, it was announced Wednesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association. Nicole Sarcone of CSI was selected Coach of the Year. It is the first time that Staten Island has earned either an MBWA Player or Coach of the Year award. The All-Met First Team: Jenalyse Alarcon, Staten Island; Nkiru Awaka, Queens; Angelina Barrera, Mercy; Lucy Coogan and Jah’nel Lewis, Caldwell; Syrita Faraj, St. Thomas Aquinas; Tanasha Mills, Dominican. The All-Met Second Team: Stephanie Formby and Ana Valle, Felician; Cayla Howard, Dominican; Tower Lorde and Arianna Stockinger, Pace; Kaitlyn O’Connell, Adelphi; Taneshia Tucker, Bloomfield. All-Met Honorable Mention: Amani Abuhatab, Grace Lesko and Jaclyn Stanavich, Mercy; Brooke Corbett, Caldwell; Samantha Muller, Molloy.   The 2024-25 All-Met teams will be honored at the 92nd MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 24, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. The Haggerty dinner is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States. A 5-9 senior forward from Troy, NY, Alarcon – who also was named to the All-East Coast Conference First Team as well as the ECC Player of the Year – led the Dolphins (21-9, 13-3 ECC) in scoring, rebounding, and shooting percentage both from the floor and at the free throw line. She averaged a career-high 14.5 points (No. 4 ECC), 7.4 rebounds (5th ECC) while shooting 49.2% from the field (3rd ECC) and 75.6% at the free throw line. She was tops in the conference with 71 steals. Alarcon, who started all 30 games for the Dolphins, scored in double figures 22 times and had three double-doubles. She posted 23 points and seven rebounds in CSI’s ECC tournament semifinal victory over Mercy, a win which propelled CSI into the conference championship game for the first time. For her four-year career at Staten Island, Alarcon played in 113 games, registering 1,390 points, 906 rebounds, 225 assists, 93 blocks and 168 steals.     Named to the All-Met Second Teams in both 2023 and 2024, Alarcon was selected to the D2CCA All-East Region First Team for 2024-25. In her seventh season as head coach of the Dolphins, Sarcone – who was raised on Staten Island – guided CSI to an 11-win improvement over 2023-24 (10-18, 7-9 ECC). Her team’s 20-8 regular season mark was the best during her tenure as Staten Island finished second during the ECC regular season and, as the No. 2 seed, defeated Mercy in the conference semifinals before losing a close championship game at No. 1-seeded Daemen in upstate New York. Sarcone’s head coaching career won-loss record with the Dolphins now has improved to 84-82. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz where the Hawks posted a 71-36 record during her basketball playing days, she was named All-SUNYAC three times, captained the team for two years and left as the program’s all-time assists leader.
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