Nicole Britton
24 Nicole Britton
  • Height:
    5-7
  • Year:
    Sr
  • Hometown:
    Monmouth Beach, N.J.
  • High School:
    Shore Regional
  • Position:
    A
  • gp
    18
  • p
    57
  • g
    29
  • a
    28

Bio

As a senior: NEC Offensive Player of the Year ... All-NEC First Team ... Two-time NEC Player of the Week ... Appeared in and started all 18 games, tallying a team-high 57 points on a career-high 29 goals and a league-leading 28 assists ... Led NEC with 1.55 assists per game and ranked third in points ... Registered a point in every game, netting hat tricks in four games, multiple goals in eight, multiple assists in nine and multiple points in 16 outings ... Added personal bests of 53 draw controls and 26 ground balls ... Became Bryant's all-time leader in draw controls (171) and assists (85) ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll. 

As a junior: NEC All-Tournament Team ... NEC Academic Honor Roll ... Started all 18 games in which she appeared, missing one contest due to injury ... Led the Northeast Conference in assists, racking up 41 helpers (seventh nationally) while averaging 2.28 per game (fifth nationally) ... Added 22 goals to rank third on the team with 63 points ... Her 3.5 points per game ranked fifth on the league circuit and 42nd nationally ... Ranked second on the team with 46 draw controls ... Netted a pair of game-winning goals ... Scored a career-high four goals in a 13-10 win at UC Davis March 14, also adding a pair of assists for six points on the day ... Registered a career-high seven points with a career-high six assists and one goal in a win over Robert Morris May 1 ... Those six assists tie for second in the Bryant single-game records ... One of just two players to record at least one point in every contest ... Dished out an assist in all but a single game ... Added 14 ground balls and four draw controls.

As a sophomore: Started all 19 games for the Bulldogs, leading the team on the draw with 53 wins ... Set a new Division I program record while tying the overall program mark for draw controls in a season ... Tallied 25 points on the year off 11 goals and 14 assists ... Dished out a career-high three assists in the NEC Championship Game against Wagner May 4 ... Won six draw controls on three occasions ... Scored a point in 12-of-19 contests ... Ranked in the NEC's top 10 in draw controls (fifth) and assists (sixth) ... After just two seasons, already ranks 11th in the program record books for draw controls (72).

As a freshman: Appeared in 11 games, earning six starts during her first year with the Black and Gold in 2013 … Registered three points on a goal and two assists … Collected nine ground balls and 19 draw controls … Scored her first collegiate goal against Siena (2/19) … Recorded an assist and picked up three draw controls against Yale (3/6) … Registered two or more draw controls in each of the final four games of the year … Picked up three five draw controls and caused two turnovers in two NEC tournament games.

Before Bryant: Four-year varsity letter winner and three-year starter at Shore Regional High School ... Led the Blue Devils to Shore Conference championships as a freshman and junior and a division title as a senior ... Team also won the state sectional in 2009 ... Second Team All-Shore Conference selection as a senior ... Tabbed to play in the 2012 league all-star game ... Also participated in four years of soccer at Shore Regional, as well as one season of winter track and a season of JV basketball ... Sectional qualifier in the 400 meter and the 4x400 as a sophomore and participated in the state group championship in both events ... High honor roll student.

Personal: The daughter of Kim and Tim Britton, Nicole Britton was born June 25, 1994 ... Has one brother, Jack, and one sister, Lauren ... Father played football at Rutgers for two seasons while her uncle, Tony Britton, played four years of football at Widener ... Cousin, Tony, played lacrosse at Cornell.

 

CAREER HIGHS
Goals: 4, three times (last vs. Saint Francis U, 4/15/16)
Assists:
6 vs. Robert Morris (5/1/15)
Points:
7 vs. Robert Morris (5/1/15)
Ground balls:
4 vs. Sacred Heart (5/1/16) 
Draw controls:
6, three times (last vs. Saint Francis U., 4/13/14)
Caused turnovers: 2 at Monmouth (4/28/13)

Player Profile

Recent Games
Apr 17 Robert Morris L, 10-7
Apr 22 at Central Connecticut W, 13-4
Apr 29 at Long Island W, 13-7
May 1 Sacred Heart W, 16-5
May 6 #4 Sacred Heart W, 13-12
May 8 #2 Wagner L, 11-7
  Overall Conf
Games 18 7
Points 57 26
Goals 29 13
Assists 28 13
Shots 73 26
Shooting percentage 39.7 50.0
Shots on goal 58 19
Shots on goal percentage 79.5 73.1
Free position goals-shots 5-9 2-3
Ground balls 26 13
Draw controls 53 24
Turnovers 54 20
Caused turnovers 7 3
Fouls 16 4
Yellow cards 2 1
Red cards 0 0
Green cards 0 0
Date Opponent Score g a pts fpg-fps gb dc to ct sh sh% sog sog% fo peyc rc gc
Feb 15 at Vermont W, 11-7 2 2 4 0-0 0 3 5 0 4 50.0 3 75.0 3 - 0 0
Feb 19 UC Davis L, 12-7 2 0 2 0-1 1 2 2 1 4 50.0 4 100.0 1 - 0 0
Feb 23 at Holy Cross W, 8-7 1 0 1 1-1 2 1 1 1 3 33.3 3 100.0 2 - 0 0
Feb 28 #11/8 Stony Brook L, 18-4 0 3 3 0-0 2 3 6 0 2 0.0 2 100.0 0 - 0 0
Mar 9 Brown L, 11-10 4 2 6 0-0 1 2 3 0 8 50.0 6 75.0 1 - 0 0
Mar 12 at Winthrop W, 13-12 2 0 2 0-0 1 2 2 1 3 66.7 3 100.0 1 - 0 0
Mar 15 at Presbyterian W, 18-4 1 2 3 1-1 2 1 2 0 2 50.0 2 100.0 2 - 0 0
Mar 22 at Siena W, 13-12 1 2 3 0-0 2 5 3 0 2 50.0 2 100.0 1 - 0 0
Mar 30 UMass Lowell W, 11-9 1 2 3 1-1 2 3 3 1 8 12.5 4 50.0 0 - 0 0
Apr 8 at Mount St. Mary's W, 17-7 1 3 4 1-1 1 5 1 1 1 100.0 1 100.0 0 - 0 0
Apr 10 at Wagner W, 7-4 0 3 3 0-0 1 0 2 0 3 0.0 2 66.7 0 - 0 0
Apr 15 Saint Francis U W, 17-12 4 1 5 1-1 0 5 5 0 5 80.0 5 100.0 1 - 0 0
Apr 17 Robert Morris L, 10-7 1 1 2 0-0 2 3 3 1 2 50.0 1 50.0 0 - 0 0
Apr 22 at Central Connecticut W, 13-4 1 1 2 0-1 3 1 1 1 3 33.3 2 66.7 1 - 0 0
Apr 29 at Long Island W, 13-7 3 1 4 0-0 2 5 3 0 7 42.9 5 71.4 2 - 0 0
May 1 Sacred Heart W, 16-5 3 3 6 0-0 4 5 5 0 5 60.0 3 60.0 0 - 0 0
May 6 #4 Sacred Heart W, 13-12 2 1 3 0-0 0 6 3 0 8 25.0 7 87.5 0 - 0 0
May 8 #2 Wagner L, 11-7 0 1 1 0-2 0 1 4 0 3 0.0 3 100.0 1 - 0 0
  gp gs g a pts fpg-fps gb dc to ct sh sh% sog sog% fo peyc rc gc
2012-13 11 6 1 2 3 0-0 9 19 7 2 4 25.0 3 75.0 3 - 0 0
2013-14 19 19 11 14 25 0-0 13 53 21 4 22 50.0 15 68.2 15 - 0 0
2014-15 18 18 22 41 63 0-8 14 46 31 4 49 44.9 40 81.6 17 - 0 0
2015-16 18 18 29 28 57 5-9 26 53 54 7 73 39.7 58 79.5 16 - 0 0
Total 66 61 63 85 148 5-17 62 171 113 17 148 42.6 116 78.4 51 - 0 0
    gp gs g a pts fpg-fps gb dc to ct sh sh% sog sog% fo peyc rc gc
Event Total 18 18 29 28 57 5-9 26 53 54 7 73 39.7 58 79.5 16 - 0 0
Conference 7 7 13 13 26 2-3 13 24 20 3 26 50.0 19 73.1 4 - 0 0
Exhibition - - - - 0 0-0 - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 9 9 17 14 31 2-5 12 30 34 3 45 37.8 35 77.8 4 - 0 0
Away 9 9 12 14 26 3-4 14 23 20 4 28 42.9 23 82.1 12 - 0 0
Neutral - - - - 0 0-0 - - - - - - - - - - - -
Result Wins 13 13 22 21 43 5-6 20 42 36 5 54 40.7 42 77.8 13 - 0 0
Losses 5 5 7 7 14 0-3 6 11 18 2 19 36.8 16 84.2 3 - 0 0
Month February 4 4 5 5 10 1-2 5 9 14 2 13 38.5 12 92.3 6 - 0 0
March 5 5 9 8 17 2-2 8 13 13 2 23 39.1 17 73.9 5 - 0 0
April 6 6 10 10 20 2-3 9 19 15 3 21 47.6 16 76.2 4 - 0 0
May 3 3 5 5 10 0-2 4 12 12 0 16 31.3 13 81.3 1 - 0 0

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