Athletics
Five St. Joseph’s Hoopsters Reach 1,000-Point Milestone
By Brian Harmon
St. Joseph’s University’s four basketball programs combined this season saw five players reach the 1,000-point career total.
Three of the five players who accomplished the milestone were Golden Eagles, playing for Long Island Campus teams, while two were on Brooklyn Campus Bears’ teams. Of the five, three scored 1,000 points representing St. Joseph’s. The group included two transfer students whose combined career points total exceeded 1,000.
Reaching 1,000 points in college basketball is a rare achievement that only a small percentage of players attain. The achievement underscores a player’s significant and sustained contribution to their team’s offense across their college career.
Below are the five SJNY players who reached 1,000 points this season:
Long Island Campus
Spencer Malloy ’24
Spencer Malloy ’24
Commack
Malloy reached 1,000 career points — all at St. Joseph’s — during a Golden Eagles victory over Old Westbury on Feb. 3. He finished with 1,066 points in just three seasons with St. Joseph’s. Across his career, he averaged 14.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. The history education major twice earned Skyline All-Conference honors and in 2021-22 was named to D3Hoops.com All-Region 3 Third Team.
Lanyah Ford ’24
Lanyah Ford ’24
Copiague
Ford scored in double figures in 16 games this past season while surpassing the 1,000 point career total. She reached the milestone during a Jan. 30 win against SUNY Purchase. She also reached the 500-rebound mark. A child study major, Ford was the Skyline Conference’s women’s defensive player of the year this past season. She has twice earned All-Conference honors. Across her career with the Golden Eagles, she averaged 13.9 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.
Casey Travers ’23
Casey Travers ’23
Graduate, Manorville
It was on the team’s Senior Day and during a home win over Farmingdale when Travers, a graduate student, scored her 1,000th career point. Named to the Skyline All-Conference First Team in 2023-24, Travers averaged 15.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 3.4 assists during her only season with the Golden Eagles. Before transferring to St. Joseph’s and scoring 422 points this past season, Travers scored 687 points while playing with SUNY Cortland.
Brooklyn Campus
Destiny Hurt ’24
Destiny Hurt ’24
Elmont
Hurt scored her 1,000th career point during a Jan. 27 loss in Riverdale, New York, to Mount Saint Vincent. It came on a jump shot via an assist from freshman Mercedes Perez. She led the Bears in scoring this season, averaging 19 points per game, while finishing the season with a flurry of 27-plus point games against Yeshiva, Farmingdale State, and Mount Saint Mary. She earned a place on the Skyline Conference Second Team. A transfer student, Hurt scored 782 of her career points during two seasons with the Brooklyn Campus squad.
Evan Sirakis ’24
Evan Sirakis ’24
Hollis Hills
Sirakis drained a three-pointer in the first half of a Feb. 3 home game against SUNY Purchase to reach and surpass 1,000 career points. In the final game of the season, Sirakis, who transferred to St. Joseph’s and played three seasons with the University, scored his 1,000th point as a Bear. He reached that mark with his final field goal in a Bears uniform.