(April 22, 2003) - Senior Mobolaji Akiode (Maplewood, NJ) was one of five members selected by the Metropolitan Basketball Writer??s Association as First Team All-Metropolitan. She joins MET Player of the Year, Cappie Pondexter from Rutgers, Rosalee Mason of Manhattan, Jen Brickey of Hofstra, and Tamika Dudley from Long Island University on the First Team. Akiode had an outstanding senior season, earning the Atlantic 10??s Most Improved Player Award and Second Team All-Conference Honors. She averaged a team best 16.5 ppg and scoring 495 points to date, which is the ninth best single season point total in Fordham history. She also became just the eighth Fordham player to record 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in her career. Akiode ranks among the top ten all-time scorers and rebounders in the program??s history with 1,167 points and 554 rebounds. She earned most improved honors by averaging more than seven points more per game this year compared to last (16.8 from 9.6 ppg), while scoring over 10 points better in conference play (18.6 from 7.9 ppg). Akiode also improved her rebounding and free throw shooting as well. She is shooting .774 from the charity stripe this year, after shooting .716 last season and is averaging 1.5 more rebounds a game overall (5.5 from 4.0), and over 2.5 in conference play (5.6 from 2.9). She is the first Fordham women??s basketball player to receive a major award as a member of the Atlantic 10. Akiode also became the first Fordham player to receive all-conference honors since Malyssa Thorngren received third team honors, following the 1997-98 season. Founded in 1841, Fordham is New York City??s Jesuit University. With 22 men??s and women??s varsity sports teams, the Fordham Rams are members of the NCAA Division I and compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, indoor and outdoor track, women??s rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball and in the Patriot League (NCAA I-AA) for football.