{"id":124753,"date":"2026-02-06T03:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124753\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:55:55","slug":"manhattans-dinkins-and-sacred-hearts-burch-named-bob-mccloskey-insurance-maac-student-athletes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124753\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s Dinkins and Sacred Heart\u2019s Burch Named Bob McCloskey Insurance MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Male Student-Athlete of the Week<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/devin-dinkins\/11790\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Dinkins, Manhattan<\/a>, Men\u2019s Basketball <br \/>\nR-Jr. \/ Washington, DC, Gonzaga<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDinkins has been integral for the Jaspers on and off the court this season, logging a 36.7 field-goal percentage from the field, with a whopping 90.1 free-throw rate from the charity stripe in all 23 games played this season. Dinkins has also averaged 13.2 points per game and has assisted on 62 made baskets. In the classroom, Dinkins, a Washington, DC native, has logged a 3.61 GPA in his pursuit of a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Organizational Leadership.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFemale Student-Athlete of the Week<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sacredheartpioneers.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jessie-burch\/16588\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie Burch, Sacred Heart,<\/a> Women\u2019s Golf <br \/>\nSr. \/ Dublin, Calif., Dublin Unified<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBurch continues to be a staple on the Sacred Heart women&#8217;s golf team, ranking second on the Pios this season with a 77.0 adjusted scoring average in 11 rounds of play. The senior from Dublin, Calif., finished a season-best fifth in a field of 90 golfers at the Battle at the Creek in early September. She is coming off a career-best junior season that saw her make a CSC Academic All-District At-Large Team. Heading into this year, Burch maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.87 as a Finance major.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:<br \/>\nWith 13 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 45th year of competition during the 2024-25 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary\u2019s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter\u2019s University, and Siena University.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStay up to date with the MAAC on social media by following @MAACSports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAACSports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MAACSports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/maacsports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@maacsports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a> or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/maacsports.com\/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAACSports.com<\/a> for all the latest MAAC news.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Male Student-Athlete of the Week Devin Dinkins, Manhattan, Men\u2019s Basketball R-Jr. \/ Washington, DC,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-124753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}