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Staten Island, NY – The Wagner College women's basketball team will look to improve its seeding for the upcoming 2014 Northeast Conference (NEC) Tournament when the Seahawks host second-place Mount St. Mary's on Senior Day at 1:00 pm.
 
In a pre-game ceremony, the Wagner women's basketball program will honor its three seniors, Laura Amorosa (Kirkland, Quebec/Phillips Academy), Stephanie Blais (Sherbrooke, Quebec/Montmorency) and former player and current senior manager Melanie Williamson (Baltimore, MD/Baltimore Polytechnic Institute).
 
Williams was a highly-regarded prospect who was diagnosed with a career-ending heart ailment prior to her freshman season in the Fall of 2010.
 
To view a video profile of Melanie and Amorosa,  her fellow co-captain and roommate, click HERE
 
Seahawk fans are urged to arrive at the Spiro Center early in order to experience the Senior Day Ceremony which will begin at approximately 12:45 pm. In honor of Amorosa and Blais, O Canada! will be played prior to the National Anthem.

The Seahawks, who sewed up their first NEC Tournament appearance in four years with a 75-63 comeback win at Central Connecticut last time out on February 24, can gain a first-round home game by finishing in the top four of the league standings. Following the Mount game, Wagner makes the long trek to Loretto, PA to meet Saint Francis U on Monday, March 3 in the regular season finale.
 
The eight-team 2014 NEC Tournament features all games being played on campus sites on the home floor of the higher-seeded team. The tournament commences with the quarterfinals on Sunday, March 9 with the quarterfinals, followed by the semifinals on Wednesday, March 12. The NEC Championship game will be held on Sunday, March 16 at 3:00 pm and will be televised live to a national audience on ESPNU.
 
Wagner enters the game with an NEC record of 8-8 and an overall mark of 9-18 while the Mount, which earned an 89-78 home win over the Seahawks on January 18, are 12-4 in the conference and sport an overall mark of 17-11.
 
In the process of garnering a berth in the 2014 Northeast Conference (NEC) Tournament, which mark's the program's first league tourney appearance in four years, the Wagner women's basketball team has compiled a plethora of team and individual honors.
 
The Seahawks are the NEC's most improved team this season, by any matrix or measure, having gone 2-16 in conference a year ago and 3-26 overall. With one of the nation's youngest rosters, an 11-person unit that features nine of 11 players in either their first or second years of eligibility, the Seahawks faced one of the nation's toughest non-conference schedules.
 
This season's out of conference slate  featured games vs. power-conference programs Kentucky, Rutgers, VCU, Pittsburgh and Seton Hall. Second-year head coach Lisa Cermignano designed this demanding non-league schedule as preparation for NEC play, and the dividends have paid off handsomely, with the Seahawks currently sporting an 8-8 conference mark and overall record of 9-18.
 
Redshirt sophomore center Ugo Nwaigwe (Valley Stream, NY/Valley Stream South) earned Wagner's first NEC Player of the Week honor in 10 years on February 18, one day after she recorded the school's first-ever triple-double (12 points, 19 rebounds, 13 blocks) in a win over Fairleigh Dickinson that was seen on ESPN3.  
 
The 6-3 Nwaigwe ranks No. 2 in the nation in blocked shots per game and tops the NEC in blocks (4.88), rebounding (10.7), and field goal percentage (.632).
 
Freshman point guard Jasmine Nwajei has been stellar right from the get-go this season. Signaling her arrival by scoring the game's first five points en route to a 19-point performance vs. No. 7 Kentucky in the November 10 season opener,  she has gone on to tie the school record with six NEC Rookie of the Week honors to her credit, equaling the six rookie honors copped by Meredith Kearns in 1998-199. The dynamic 5-8 New York City guard currently ranks No. 1 in the NEC in assists (5.67), No. 2 in scoring (22.7), and No. 8 in steals (1.93).
 
Sweet-shooting left-handed sophomore guard Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) has also been one of the NEC's standout performers all season. The 5-6 Peck, who tossed in a career-high 30 points vs. Sacred Heart on January 6, is T-3^rd in the conference with 2.19 three-pointer field goals made per game, in addition to ranking No. 4 in scoring (20.3) and No. 6 in free throw percentage (.868).