May 19, 2010

PHILADELPHIA - La Salle senior Yves Mekongo has been named to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's Basketball Team for the third straight year, it was announced today. The team is voted on by the sports information offices of the 28 area institutions from the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Mekongo, a two-time ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American, including first team honors this season, was also named the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year. He is one of four from La Salle (Jill Davis, Shannon Duval and Morgan Robertson) to earn the award from the A-10, the most in the conference.

The Cameroon native was a NACDA I-AAA Scholar-Athlete for the third straight season and also received Academic All-Atlantic 10 honors in three straight years. He collected the Big 5 Sportsmanship Award at the Herb Good Banquet in April.

He scored 1,014 points in his career, including a career-best 11.0 ppg. this season.

Mekongo is joined on the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's Basketball team by Performer of the Year Mike Yocum of Philadelphia University; senior Malcolm Ingram of Philadelphia University, junior Sharif Bray of Cheyney and sophomore Justin Swidowski of Holy Family.