baptiste_djery
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Djery Baptiste
- Player
- Seasons: 2018-19
- Number: 11
- Position: C
- Height: 6' 10“
- Weight: 235
- Hometown: Gonaives, Haiti
- High School: Prestonwood Christian Academy (Plano, TX)
- Prep School: none
- Transfer From: Vanderbilt
- Birthday: November 12, 19951)
At UMass
2018-19 Graduate Student
- Graduated early from Vanderbilt and will enroll at UMass as a graduate student
- Will be immediately eligible for the second semester of the 2018-19 season with the Minutemen
- Will also be eligible for all of the 2019-20 season with UMass2)
Pre-UMass
Vanderbilt
2017-18 Redshirt Sophomore year
- Played in 29 games and made 10 starts
- Averaged 2.4 points per game in 15.2 minutes
- Scored career-high 13 points in win over UNC Asheville; tallied career highs in points (13), field goals made (5), then-rebounds (8), and minutes played (25) against Bulldogs
- Also scored in double figures at South Carolina with 10 points
- Grabbed career-high nine rebounds vs. Kansas State
- Played career-high 34 minutes against USC
2016-17 Redshirt Freshman year
- Played in all 35 games and made one start and averaged 7.9 minutes per game
- Averaged 1.8 points and 1.9 rebounds per game
- Tied a career high with eight points in win over Miss. State
- Made first career-start vs. Butler
- Tallied career-high eight points and three rebounds vs. Belmont
- Had seven points and seven rebounds vs. Norfolk St.
2015-16 Freshman year
- Redshirted his freshman season
- Signed with the Commodores in November of 2014
- Chose the Commodores over UConn, SMU, Oregon, and USC
Statistics
| Total | 3-Pointers | Rebounds | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | GP | GS | Min | Avg | FG | FGA | % | FG | FGA | % | FT | FTA | % | Off | Def | Tot | Avg | PF | FO | A | TO | Blk | St | Pts | Avg |
| 2016-17 VU | 35 | 2 | 274 | 7.8 | 25 | 48 | .521 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 20 | .650 | 25 | 40 | 65 | 1.9 | 59 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 63 | 1.8 |
| 2017-18 VU | 29 | 10 | 442 | 15.2 | 30 | 66 | .455 | 0 | 0 | – | 30 | 41 | .732 | 34 | 69 | 103 | 3.6 | 74 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 26 | 7 | 90 | 3.1 |
| Career | 64 | 12 | 716 | 11.2 | 55 | 114 | .482 | 0 | 0 | – | 43 | 61 | .705 | 59 | 109 | 168 | 2.6 | 133 | 4 | 6 | 48 | 40 | 11 | 153 | 2.4 |
High School
- Was ranked the eighth-best player in the state of Texas according to ESPN
- Attended the Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Texas, where he averaged 10 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks, two assists, and one steal in his senior season
- Helped lead his Lion teams to four consecutive state championships
- Named his team's Defensive Player of the Year in his senior season
Personal
- Djery Jean Baptiste
- Born November 12, 1995
- Son of Hebert Jean Baptiste and Wislonde Destin
- Speaks four languages and hopes to one day be a diplomat in his native Haiti
- Plans to major in Public Policy and Linguistics3)
- Recipient of the Myer Family Men's Basketball Scholarship4)
- Advice to youngsters: “Seek God”
External Links
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