Campbell
University
junior
forward Jonathan Rodriguez is one of 240 athletes nationwide chosen
to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
all-district teams.
Rodriguez earned a place on the All-District 3 first team.
Selected and
voted on by member coaches of the NABC, the 240 student-athletes,
from 24 districts which were realigned this season, are now
eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams
to be announced on Saturday, April 4, at Hoop City in the COBO
Center at 10 a.m. as part of the 2009 NABC Convention in
Detroit.
A product of Bayamon, Puerto
Rico, Rodriguez
ranks eighth among Atlantic Sun Conference leaders in scoring
(16.0), third in rebounding (8.5), ninth in field goal percentage
(.479) and sixth in free throw accuracy (.797). He stands fourth among active NCAA
Division I juniors in career points scored (1625), third in career
scoring average (18.1), second in rebounding average (9.1) and
second in double-doubles (39).
The 2007 graduate of Miami
(Fla.) Calusa Prep has scored in double figures 24 times this
season, including nine 20-plus point outings. He has produced 10 double-doubles,
most recently an 11-point, 14-rebound effort in Campbell's 68-62
win over East Tennessee State last week.
A
first-team all-league selection in both 2007 and 2008 and
second-team pick in 2009, Rodriguez is the first Camel to earn
all-conference recognition three times since Joe Spinks gained Big
South all-league honors all four years from 1991-94.
He was joined on the NABC
All-District 3 First Team by Chavis Holmes of VMI, Kevin Tiggs and
Courtney Pigram of East Tennessee State and Anthony Smith of
Liberty.
Second-team all-district honorees are Garfield Blair of Stetson,
Seth Curry of Liberty, Grayson Flittner of Gardner-Webb and Alex
Renfroe from Belmont.
Campbell begins play in the A-Sun
tournament on Thursday in an 8:30 p.m. (CST) tip-off at
Lipscomb.