WAYNE--William Paterson student-athletes Dan Jones and Abdoulaye Ouedraogo were selected as Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports-Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education Magazine.
Jones, a senior football defensive lineman, was a member of the 2009-10 New Jersey Athletic Conference Academic All-Second Team. He started in all 10 games last fall, recording 20 tackles (nine solo), 3.0 tackles-for-loss, 2.0 sacks and a fumble recovery. Jones is completing a bachelor’s degree in communication at William Paterson.
Ouedraogo, the 2009-10 NJAC Male Athlete of the Year, was a second-team National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) all-American, the NJAC Player and Defensive Player of the Year, and a member of the NABC All-Atlantic Region First Team, All-Metropolitan Basketball Coaches Association First Team, All-NJAC First Team, D3hoops.com All-Atlantic Region Second Team and ECAC All-Metro Region First Team. The senior forward led the Pioneers with a .527 field-goal percentage (seventh in NJAC), 7.4 rebounds (sixth in conference) and 2.1 blocked shots (second in league, 36th in Division III) per game, adding 10.0 points per contest to rank second for the Pioneers. Ouedraogo competed in the inaugural NABC Division III Senior All-Star Game at the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four in Salem, VA.
Previously named the 2007-08 NJAC Defensive Player of the Year and a member of the All-NJAC First Team, the D3hoops.com All-Atlantic Region Second Team, the NABC All-Atlantic Second Team, the ECAC Metro Region All-Second Team and the PrestoSports/Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Division III All-Third Team, he was selected to the 2009-10 NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention Team and the 2007-08 NJAC All-Academic Second Team. Ouedraogo completed a bachelor of arts degree in sociology this May.