 Three-year letterwinner and leading returning scorer from a year ago... tri-captain... active career leader in most every individual statistical category, including games (78), starts (61), points (1,036), three-pointers (188) and minutes (2,047)...has appeared in all possible 78 games... first all-time in three-point FGs and 19th all-time in scoring... has led the team in three-point field goals and FT pct. twice...
Coach Geitner: “Edwin finds a way to make shots. He’s not a shooter, he’s a maker. He’s going to make shots. We’re going to rely heavily on him to score for us once again. What we’re asking from Edwin this year that’s different is for him to step up and be a leader.”
Career-highs (thru 2008/09): 46 min., 32 pts., 7 rebs., 9 assists, 2 blocks, 4 steals, eight 3-pters. ...
2008/09: Second-team all-conference selection.... led the Warriors in eight categories, among those for points, scoring average, three-pointers and free-throw percentage... led the LEC in three-point FGs per game and was fourth in three-point pct. and tied for ninth in scoring... all-tournament selection at the season-opening Ramapo College Roadrunner Tip-Off Tournament... selected as the team's only LEC Player-of-the-Week Feb. 9 when he led the Warriors to a 2-0 week... sank nine three-point FGs in those two games, six coming during a 27-point performance against Wesleyan University... broke the previous career three-point record of 156 Jan. 17 against Rhode Island College... became the 23rd player to total 1,000 points in an Eastern uniform Feb. 14 at UMass Dartmouth with (appropriately) a three-point field goal six minutes into the second half of that game... named to the LEC honor roll after scoring his 1,000th point... .converted at least half of his three-point field goal attempts eight times... season-highs (p-r-a-3s): 28-7-5-6...
2007/08: Second on the team in scoring (13.0 ppg.), three-point FGs (58), steals (25), FTs (60), FT pct. (.833) and assists (76)... three-point total was third-highest in a season in program history... led or shared the team lead in scoring seven times and in steals six times...named to Eastern's tip-off all-tournament team with two-game totals of 35 points, nine assists and six three-point FGs... tossed in a season and game-high 23 points with five assists in a 94-88 loss to St. Mary's College (MD) in the championship game... was 11-for-11 from the free throw line in that game... canned 90.0 percent (36-of-40) of his free throws through the first 11 games... sank at least half of his three-point FG attempts ten times... led Eastern to a 79-77 upset of LEC champion Rhode Island College on the final day of the regular season with a game-high 20 points... sank a season-high six three-pointers in ten attempts in that game, two coming in a run of 14 straight Eastern points that carried the Warriors back from 11 points down... in a 90-76 home win over Lyndon State Jan. 27, had 21 points (one of his four 20-point games) and set up 21 more with a career-high nine assists... season-highs (p-r-a-3s): 23-6-9-6...
2006/07: Became the program's first-ever Little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Year... set a proram record for three-pointers in a season, with 70... appeared in all 26 games and was second on the team with 25 starts, third in minutes (694) and scoring average (13.7), and first in three-point FGs, three-point pct. (.407), and FT pct. (.814)... three times named the LEC Rookie-of-the-Week -- the most by an player in the conference... in the final LEC statistics, ranked tenth in scoring (first among freshmen), third in three-pointers, and fifth in three-point pct. ... was named to all-tournament teams in both tournaments in which the team participated... opened his career by scoring 33 points in two games in the Eastern Tip-Off Tournament and totalled 27 at the Bahama House Classic in early January at Daytona Beach... in the Eastern tournament, was 10-for-20 from the floor (6-for-12 from "three") and 7-for-8 from the stripe... had the two highest and three of the top five scoring games of the season with 32 points Jan. 6 vs. RIC and 26 Dec. 2 vs. UMass Boston... also posted the top three figures in three-point field goals, including eight in the 32-point performance...against RIC, became the first freshman in at least 28 seasons to crack the 30-point mark... in that game, he was 10-for-18 from the floor and 8-for-14 from "three", with his three-point total landing one shy of the game record... season-highs (p-r-a-3s): 32-7-4-8)...
High School: Four-year basketball letterwinner... McDonald's All-American honorable mention selection in basketball as a senior …1,000 point scorer…all-state and all-conference... member of a state championship basketball team as a senior... played on conference title teams twice in basktball... basketball team captain as both a junior and senior...
OTHER: Played four years with the Connecticut Knights AAU team...
PERSONAL: born Edwin E. Ortiz July 23, 198… Parents: Ana and Edwin… Major: Sociology... Residence: Hartford, CT…
Career Statistics
EDWIN...REVEALED
Your personal goal for the season: Giving Jared Buckets
Keep one thing about Eastern: Jared
Favorite movie: Dark Knight
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Basketball
Best choice for the next U.S. President: Obama
Most difficult aspect of your sport: Defense
Your choice as best athlete (any level) of all time: Michael Jordan
Favorite pro team: Houston Astros
One thing you would like to do before you die: Travel the world
Greatest coach (any level) of all time: Coach Reilly
Your favorite moment of all time: The birth of my daughter
Job you consider the hardest or worst to do for a living: Cleaning animal waste
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