Megan Flynn named Female Athlete of the Year; Dean Robinson Award Recipient
Albany, NY–The Sage Colleges' department of athletics recently announced the recipients of the department's annual awards. The department selected graduate women's basketball performer Megan Flynn (Hoosick Falls, NY/Hoosick Falls Central) as the 2019-2020 Female Athlete of the Year. She was also saluted as the female recipient of the Dean Sharon Robinson Senior Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, which is given to the senior student-athlete with the highest overall grade point average.
Head women's basketball coach Allison Coleman noted, "Megan has capped what has become one of the best senior season of any other player in Sage Women's Basketball history by earning the Female Athlete of the Year and Dean Robinson Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards." She continued, "Everything Megan has been able to do on and off the court is a testament to her hard work and dedication to being the best player, student and person she can be."
Earlier this spring, she was named to the 2019-2020 Academic All-America NCAA Division III Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America and became the first Sage basketball player honored with this award and just the ninth Sage student-athlete to achieve this feat.
Flynn, who is a graduate student at Sage working on her MBA degree achieved a 3.99 grade point average as an undergraduate, while currently boasts a 4.0 as a graduate student.
Among the many honors she earned on the 2019-2020 season, she was named to the Empire 8 Women's Basketball Championship All-Tournament Team, a pair of Empire 8 Player of the Week citations and a selection to the Empire 8 Women's Basketball First Team. She was also nominated for the Josten's Trophy and was named as one honorees as a Capital District Sports Woman of the Year.
Flynn added a career-best 28 points and picked up her team-leading 12th double-double of the year after hauling in 17 rebounds in the team's 82-75 win over Utica College in the Empire 8 Semifinals. Flynn added 17 points in the first half and finished the night making 9-of-14 shots from the floor and 10-of-13 from the line. Against St. John Fisher in the Empire 8 Championship contest, Flynn finished the game with 12 points and added six rebounds with three steals. For the tournament, she averaged 20.0 ppg and 11.5 rpg, while shooting 53.8% from the floor and 2.0 steals.
A team captain this past season, she wraps her stellar career with 877 points, 684 rebounds, 44 blocked shots and a 51.9% field goal percentage in 86 appearances. She is the program's 12th all-time leading scorer while standing fifth in career rebounds and tied for eighth in blocked shots. On the 2019-2020 season, she was the team's high scorer eight times, while also leading the team in rebounding 18 times. She added 12 double-double on the year and wraps her career with 19 double-doubles.
Flynn was a 27-game starter this year adding 13.6 ppg and 10.8 rpg, but tops for the squad. She also had 18 blocked shots with an impressive 51.5% field goal percentage having converted 136-of-264 field goals. She also shot 72.3% from the line (94-130), while adding 29 assists with 29 steals.
The Gators advanced to the championship game for the first time, earned the league's runner-up trophy after an impressive 15-12 mark with a 10-4 record in conference play.
Academically, she has earned multiple selections to the Empire 8 Presidents' List, the Sage Scholar-Athlete Team, as well as an induction into Sage's Athletic Honor Society. She is also a Dean's List student and was honored with Sage's Book Award and just this past weekend earned the Eli Werlin Award as an outstanding graduating woman in the field of accounting or business.
Coleman added, "She is as impressive in person as she is on paper. While our program will miss Megan as she moves on after graduation, we are all better because of her contributions to our program, our college and community."
