Lake Placid, N.Y. (June 8, 2010) – Junior Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.) of the Stony Brook University baseball team has been named the recipient of the America East 2010 Male Sportsmanship Award, the conference announced Monday night during a dinner at the Lake Placid Club Golf House as part of its annual meetings. Marino is now automatically eligible for the NCAA Male Sportsmanship Award, which will be determined by the NCAA Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct in July. Marino demonstrated sportsmanship during the 2009 baseball season when he suffered a broken wrist. Once healed, despite being eligible for a medical red shirt due to the percentage of games played at the time of his injury, Marino approached his coach, unsolicited, to voluntarily forego his red-shirt opportunity and help his team reach the conference championship, for which the squad did eventually qualify. He put the greater good of his team above his own collegiate baseball career and his own long-term personal goals, exemplifying a true team spirit. In addition, Marino has consistently proven good sportsmanship both on and off the field. As a fierce competitor, he still shows respect for opposing players and umpires, and always expresses encouragement for his own teammates. Also during the 2009 season, Marino and other team leaders went to visit a local youth baseball player who was being treated with a rare blood disease at Stony Brook Hospital. He and his teammates also registered in the national bone marrow donor registry in honor of the local youth. To be nominated, an individual or team must have demonstrated consistently the values of caring, fairness, civility, honesty, integrity and responsibility in his or her daily participation in intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete or team nominees must be a member of an intercollegiate athletics team during the 2009-10 academic year.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Marino Earns America East Male Sportsmanship Award
Lake Placid, N.Y. (June 8, 2010) – Junior Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.) of the Stony Brook University baseball team has been named the recipient of the America East 2010 Male Sportsmanship Award, the conference announced Monday night during a dinner at the Lake Placid Club Golf House as part of its annual meetings. Marino is now automatically eligible for the NCAA Male Sportsmanship Award, which will be determined by the NCAA Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct in July. Marino demonstrated sportsmanship during the 2009 baseball season when he suffered a broken wrist. Once healed, despite being eligible for a medical red shirt due to the percentage of games played at the time of his injury, Marino approached his coach, unsolicited, to voluntarily forego his red-shirt opportunity and help his team reach the conference championship, for which the squad did eventually qualify. He put the greater good of his team above his own collegiate baseball career and his own long-term personal goals, exemplifying a true team spirit. In addition, Marino has consistently proven good sportsmanship both on and off the field. As a fierce competitor, he still shows respect for opposing players and umpires, and always expresses encouragement for his own teammates. Also during the 2009 season, Marino and other team leaders went to visit a local youth baseball player who was being treated with a rare blood disease at Stony Brook Hospital. He and his teammates also registered in the national bone marrow donor registry in honor of the local youth. To be nominated, an individual or team must have demonstrated consistently the values of caring, fairness, civility, honesty, integrity and responsibility in his or her daily participation in intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete or team nominees must be a member of an intercollegiate athletics team during the 2009-10 academic year.
