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2019-20 Women's Basketball Roster

Claire Leger
Peter G. Borg
Peter G. Borg (Rider University)

31 Amari Johnson

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Dallastown
  • Hometown Red Lion, PA

Biography

2019-20
- All-MAAC Second Team selection
- MAAC All-Academic Team honoree
- Only player in the MAAC to average a double-double at 11.6 points (16th-MAAC) and 10.7 rebounds per game (2nd-MAAC)
- Led the MAAC with 16 double-doubles, seven more than the next-closest player
- Led the Broncs and finished fourth in the MAAC at 1.4 blocks per game
- Her 34.0 minutes per game ranked seventh in the MAAC
- Grabbed double-digit rebounds a league-best 20 times
- Scored a season-high 24 points twice – against Wagner (December 18) and Manhattan (January 30)
- Matched her career high with 17 rebounds on February 11 against Marist
- Her buzzer beater at Monmouth on March 7 clinched the Broncs’ first-ever MAAC Regular Season Championship
- Equaled her career high of four steals against Monmouth on February 1
- Started all 30 games
- Scored 17 points and made four steals in the Broncs’ MAAC Quarterfinal win over Niagara on March 11
- Preseason All-MAAC Second Team. 
- Named the MAAC Player of the Week twice (12/23 & 2/3).
- Named the MBWA Division I Player of the Week on February 4.
- Named the College Sports Madness MAAC Player of the Week on December 23.

2018-19
- Named Second Team All-MAAC.
- Earned the team’s Defensive Award.
- Appeared in all 32 games and made 31 starts for the Broncs as a junior.
- Recorded a team-high five double-doubles. (All five double-doubles came in MAAC play).
- Averaged 10 points and seven rebounds per game.
- Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
- Scored a career-high 28 points in a win over Mount St. Mary’s on November 17.
- Grabbed a season-high 17 rebounds against Iona on February 12.
 
Before Rider
Transferred to Rider from the University of Rhode Island...she played for the Rams for two seasons...Scholastically, she was a four-year letter winner at Dallastown High School...she was a 2014-15 Pennsylvania Sports Writers Class AAAA Second Team All-State selection as a senior for Dallastown Area and she was also a GameTimePA.com YAIAA First-Team All-Star during her senior season...as a senior, she poured in almost 17 points per game and averaged double figures in rebounds with more than three blocked shots per game... led Dallastown to the York-Adams League regluar season title, while topping both 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds for Dallastown... versatile player saw action at all five positions at various times in high school...as a sophomore at URI she appeared in 26 games and made three starts.
 
Personal
Daughter of Zhana and Isaiah Johnson...majoring in sports marketing with a minor in marketing...has two sisters.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 31

    2017-18Junior

    Guard
    5'10"
    31
  • 31

    2018-19Junior

    Guard
    5'10"
    31
  • 31

    2019-20Senior

    Guard
    5'10"
    31