PHILADELPHIA, PA (November 5) -- Senior forward Tom Lemmon of St. Bonaventure University has been named the 1999 Atlantic 10 men's soccer Player of the Year in voting conducting among the Conference's head coaches.

In that same vote, Anthony Curtis of Rhode Island was tabbed Rookie of the Year and Duquesne's Wade Jean was selected as Coach of the Year.

Lemmon enters this weekend's Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Championship with a Conference-leading 19 goals while his 42 points tie him for first. The Stow, OH native's effort propelled the Bonnies into third place in the Atlantic 10 and into the Atlantic 10 Championship for the first time ever. Formerly a back, Lemmon was moved to striker this season to become one of the nation's leading scorers. He is the first St. Bonaventure player to be named Atlantic 10 Player of the Year and only the second to earn All-Conference first-team honors (Wally Senk, 1998).

Curtis was selected Rookie of the Year for putting together what is arguably the finest freshman campaign in school history. He enters this weekend's Atlantic 10 Championship as the Rams' fourth leading scorer with 19 points - 14 of which have come in league play. The native of St. Catherine, Jamaica also earns a spot on the All-Conference first-team for netting five goals and dishing out nine assists and is a primary reason for Rhode Island ranking second nationally with a 3.22 goals per game average.

Joining Lemmon and Curtis on the All-Conference first-team are Emmanuel Ayim and Mark Schulte of Dayton; Duquesne's David Kovalcik, Josh Salsi, and Terry McNelis; Adam Black of Massachusetts; Nicholas McCreath of Rhode Island; Virginia Tech's Fred Silva; and Matt Cox of St. Joseph's.

The All-Conference second-team consists of R.J. Kaszuba of Dayton; Temple's Kevin Kelly and Michael Skahan; Fred Kinateder and Jonathan Bibb of Massachusetts; Xavier's Koen Kuiken; Bill Blesi of La Salle; Rhode Island's Steven DeMoura and Mark Bryant; Jason Byrd of Duquesne; and St. Bonaventure's Alex Schmidt.

In his second year at Duquesne, Jean engineered the greatest single season turnaround in Atlantic 10 history, taking last year's 11th-place 2-9-0 team and leading it to a second-place finish and a 9-2-0 record in league play this season. In addition, this year's Dukes enter this weekend's Atlantic 10 Championship with a 12-5-2 overall record after going 3-13-1 a year ago. Before heading to Duquesne, the Johnson State College graduate spent three years as an assistant at Bowling Green, where the Falcons went to three consecutive NCAA Tournaments. He is the first Duquesne men's soccer coach to ever be named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year.

The Atlantic 10 All-Conference men's soccer team follows:

1999 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer All Conference Teams
First-Team
	            School           Pos.  Cl.	Hometown	        Gms	Goals	Assts	Pts
Emmanuel Ayim	    Dayton	     F	   Sr.	College Station, TX	16	6	5	17
Adam Black	    Massachusetts    F	   Sr.	San Jose, CA	        19	16	6	38
Tom Lemmon	    St. Bonaventure  F	   Sr.	Stow, OH	        19	19	4	42
Nicholas McCreath   Rhode Island     F	   So.	Kingston, Jamaica	18	14	14	42
Anthony Curtis	    Rhode Island     M	   Fr.	St. Catherine, Jamaica	18	5	9	19
David Kovalcik	    Duquesne	     M	   Sr.	Bethel Park, PA	        19	4	7	15
Fred Silva	    Virginia Tech    M	   So.	Sao Paulo, Brazil	18	6	13	25
Matt Cox	    St. Joseph's     B	   Jr.	Cheltenham, PA	        19	3	2	8
Josh Salsi	    Duquesne	     B	   Sr.	North Huntingdon, PA	16	2	2	6
Mark Schulte	    Dayton	     B	   Sr.	Brecksville, OH	        14	0	2	2
					                                Gms	GAA	Sv%	Rec
Terry McNelis	    Duquesne	     G	   Fr.	Reading, PA	        18	0.85	.885	12-4-2
Second Team
	            School	     Pos.  Cl.	Hometown	        Gms	Goals	Assts	Pts
R.J. Kaszuba	    Dayton	     F	   Jr.	Washington, MO	        18	18	4	40
Kevin Kelly	    Temple           F	   Sr.	Philadelphia, PA	18	12	5	29
Fred Kinateder	    Massachusetts    F	   So.	Waukesha, WI	        19	10	3	23
Koen Kuiken	    Xavier	     F	   Sr.	Harderwijk, Netherlands	19	8	2	18
Jonathan Bibb	    Massachusetts    M	   Sr.	London, England	        18	0	9	9
Bill Blesi	    La Salle	     M	   Sr.	Philadelphia, PA	18	8	5	21
Steven DeMoura	    Rhode Island     M	   Jr.	Bethel, CT	        18	9	9	27
Jason Byrd	    Duquesne	     B	   Sr.	Reston, VA	        18	2	1	5
Alex Schmidt	    St. Bonaventure  B	   Sr.	Westfield, NJ	        19	1	0	2
Michael Skahan	    Temple	     B	   Sr.	Philadelphia, PA	17	1	1	3
					                                Gms	GAA	Sv%	Rec
Mark Bryant	Rhode Island	     G	   Jr.	Bristol, England	18	0.74	.800	14-3-1
Player of the Year: Tom Lemmon, St. Bonaventure
Rookie of the Year: Anthony Curtis, Rhode Island
Coach of the Year: Wade Jean, Duquesne