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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – Suffolk women's basketball's Amanda DeAngelis and Lauren Romito have been named participants to represents the Rams at the 2024 New England Women's Basketball Association (NEWBA) Senior All-Star Classic Game, the organization announced. The pair will put on blue-and-gold this Sunday, March 24 at Tufts' Cousens Gymnasium at 1 p.m.
DeAngelis and Romito are the second Suffolk duo to be selected to the event following in Gabriella DeComo and Jenni-Rose DiCecco's footsteps, who were the original Rams pair to be named to the regional all-star game in 2022. Overall, Suffolk has only had five student-athletes to participate in the game dating back to the first-ever honoree, Georgia Bourikas in 2018.
Suffolk's upperclassmen all-stars are 2-of-3 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) student-athletes to be selected with the University of New England's Jordyn Franzen earning the nod as well.
Romito, who hails from Hauppauge, New York, wrapped up her collegiate career in blue-and-gold after playing under undergraduate years at SUNY Geneseo. The 6-foot-3 forward was one of the biggest defensive threats in the nation with 108 total blocks and 4.08 blocks per game, both of which land in the top five in the NCAA Division III. On the boards, she was in the top three in the CCC in total rebounds (233), rebound per game (9.3), defensive boards (6.0) and offensive caroms (3.3) per outing, respectively. Thanks to those numbers, Romito was named CCC Defensive Player of the Year, the second-ever Suffolk student-athlete to take home the honor, first since DiCecco earned the feat in 2021-22. Offensively, the second-team all-conference honoree supplied 13.8 points per game on the best shooting percentage in the league of 53.6.
DeAngelis, meanwhile, became one of the most decorated Suffolk women's basketball players in program history this season. Not only was she the first Ram in the record books to be named a league's best player status with CCC Player of the Year, but she was tabbed D3hoops.coom All-Region First-Team, another first for a BKW_BKWuffolk student-athlete, male or female. These accolades come on an impressive senior season for the Londonderry, New Hampshire native, who averaged a double-double of 17.8 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. The All-CCC First-Teamer was the conference's biggest rebounding threat with 7.4 defensive caroms per outing and 4.4 offensive boards per contest. She landed in the top 20 nationally and top five regionally in all rebounding categories. Her defensive stat line featured 2.35 steals per game as well.
Prior to award season, DeAngelis and Romito etched their names in the Rams record books as the first teammates so hit the coveted 1,000-point milestone in the same season since DiCecco (2017-22) and Alexis Hackett (2016-20) did so as a junior and senior, respectively, in 2019-20.
DeAngelis and Romito were crucial cogs to Suffolk's fourth-ever 20-win season and first-ever appearance in the CCC Semifinal.
2023-24 NEWBA ALL-STAR GAME PARTICIPANTS
Kelly Walsh, Babson
Sydney Bradbury, Bridgewater State
Gwendolyn Carpenter, Framingham State
Flannery O'Connor, Framingham State
Bailey Donovan, Husson
Yasmine Santos, Mitchell
Kathleen Rodriguez, New England College
Izabelle Booth, Rhode Island College
Sophia Guerrier, Rhode Island College
Jeniyah Jones, Rhode Island College
Lyric Grumblatt, Rivier
Angelica Hurley, Saint Joseph's (Maine)
Jessie Ruffner, Smith
Ally Yamada, Smith
Amanda DeAngelis, Suffolk
Lauren Romito, Suffolk
Reilly Campbell, Trinity
Carly Whiteside, UMass Dartmouth
Jordyn Franzen, University of New England
Jordan Ouellette, University of Saint Joseph (Conn.)