Western New England University

Entering 2013-14: Three-year starter...one of four seniors on the squad...adept passer who handles the basketball as one of the Commonwealth Coast Conference's top assist-to-turnover ratio performers...member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and WNE Captains' Council.

2012-13 (Junior Year): Started in all 23 games he played...led the team in assists, ranking 8th in the CCC with 84--two shy of his career best...led the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio for most of the season before settling for fourth place at 2.0, establishing a career high...also set a personal record with 95 rebounds...Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society inductee...named Academic All-CCC.

2011-12 (Sophomore Year): Ranked third on the team with 29.6 minutes per game contributed 5.0 scoring and 3.2 rebounding averages made a buzzer-beating three-pointer against Lyndon State in a 68-67 season-opening victory...paced the Golden Bears in assists and ranked second in steals...1.34 assist-to-turnover ratio...selected for the academic all-conference team.

2010-11 (Freshman Year): Started in 16 of 25 games...averaged 4.3 points and 1.6 rebounds...second on the squad with 77 assists...posted the team's best assist-to-turnover ratio with a 1.29...Alpha Lambda Delta, a national society that honors the academic excellence of freshman students.

What I like best about WNE: "A great campus...friendly people...great education."

High School: Four-year letterman at East Longmeadow...also won three letters in soccer and two in baseball... captained the basketball squad as well as the soccer team for two years...all-state in both sports in 2010... played AAU basketball for the SECC All-Stars...played in the 2010 state basketball finals at the MassMutual Center... appeared in the Western Mass. All-Star game in both basketball and soccer as a senior...graduated in 2010.

Personal: Born Ryan Christman Mickiewicz on Jan. 14, 1992 in Springfield, Mass., to parents Ray and Sherri has a brother, Timmy...Favorites: movie—Wedding Crashers; TV show--Sons of Anarchy; actor—Leonardo DiCaprio; pro team—NFL's Green Bay Packers; athlete—Peyton Manning; food—mac & cheese; music group—Backstreet Boys; City—Newport, Calif...nickname is Ry...enjoys golfing and wake boarding...volunteers with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, which is dedicated to providing "a different kind of healing" to seriously ill children, and Rays of Hope, a fundraising walk/run to help in a cure for breast cancer...majoring in finance.