Green, Lord Share Male Athlete of the Year Awards

WESTFIELD, Mass.  –Senior men's basketball forward Jauch Green, Jr. (Hartford, Conn./Cromwell) and guard Vawn Lord (Amherst, Mass. / West Springfield) have been honored as Westfield State University male athletes of the year. 

Green and Lord led the Owls men's basketball team to the 2020 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament titles. 

Green finished the season with 18.6 points per game, which ranked fourth overall in individual points per game in the MASCAC. The senior also led the conference with 55 steals and ranked sixth in rebounds per game with 7.6. For the second year in a row, Green was named as a member of the All-Conference First Team. After Westfield defeated Worcester State University, 81-77 in the MASCAC championship game Green was named the tournament's most valuable player, averaging 26 points throughout the tournament scoring 30 points in the final game. Green scored more than 1,000 points in two years at Westfield State and netted more than 1,700 in his four years of collegiate basketball.

Lord finished the season with 19.2 points per game, which ranked third overall in the MASCAC for individual points. He was named to the All Conference first team, and ranked in the top ten players in the league for rebounds (6.7), and field goal percentage (47.8).  Lord was at his best late in the year as the Owls vied for playoff position, scoring 35 points in a road win at Bridgewater State and posting a 44-point game in a win at Salem State.

The Owls finished their season 20-8 overall and 10-2 in the conference, falling in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament to Middlebury College.