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VINELAND, NEW JERSEY, RESIDENT LEIGH ANN FINLEY INDUCTED INTO MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Leigh Ann Finley ’91, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey, and a Manhattan College alumna, has been inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The 26th annual event, which is sponsored by the Manhattan College Alumni Society, was held Dec. 4, 2004, in Smith Auditorium at the college campus.

Finley was a major asset to the women’s basketball team. She was a four-year starter and aided in the Jasper’s 1990 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championship. Finley became the seventh woman in the College’s history to break the 1,000-point margin and ended her Manhattan basketball career with 1,072 points. Until 2003, she also held the Jasper record for most career rebounds. Finley was spotlighted by the MAAC as “Rookie of the Week” three times and later became the first Lady Jasper to be given the MAAC All-Rookie honors.

Finely graduated from the College in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She pursued a nursing degree and graduated as valedictorian of her class. Finley currently works as a registered nurse in pediatrics in the neurology department of Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, Penn.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science. For more information about the College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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