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NJCU
men’s basketball junior All-American guard Dana John, a two-time
First-Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference
selection, will be featured for the third time this year on ESPN
Television’s family of networks when his remarkable day-in-the-life story
is chronicled on the program NCAA On Campus.
The program will have an original air date of March 19 at 12:30 PM on
ESPN Classic and will re-air seven times over the next month on ESPNU and
can also be viewed on the NCAA website, ncaa.org.
John is highlighted in the first portion of the program in the “Beyond the
Athlete” segment. The feature, conducted by ESPN reporter Melissa Knowles
is roughly six minutes in length. NJCU interim men’s basketball coach Marc
Browan senior forward Marques Hill also appear in the feature.
Also appearing on the program in the “What’s On” segment are two other
NJCU student athletes—men’s basketball freshman center Rashad Davis and
women’s bowling sophomore Candice D’Angelo.
It is the second time that an NJCU athletic program has been featured on
NCAA On Campus. The women’s bowling team appeared on the show on
January 9, 2006 when it was a Fox Sports Net program.
For John, it is the fifth major national exposure he—and the NJCU men’s
basketball program—have received this season. John appeared on ESPN
Television on December 11, 2007 as part of the primetime Newsmagazine
program E:60. He was also featured in a five-page article in the
December 17 issue of ESPN The Magazine. On December 5, his story
was introduced nationally on the program ESPN First Take on ESPN2.
He also appeared in College Hoops Illustrated this winter.
NCAA On Campus will chronicle a typical 24-hour day in John’s life
during the basketball season. John, a 27-year-old shooting guard for the
Knights, has had his tale highlighted in numerous national publications
and on local, regional and national television over the last two seasons.
For three years, he has managed to balance basketball with a full-time,
five-day-per-week job with the United States Post Office—working the
graveyard from midnight to 8:30 AM Monday thru Friday—while maintaining a
full-time academic course load, basketball practice/games, and family
commitments that include caring for his four-year-old son and handicapped
nephew. He is majoring in Special Education at NJCU.
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