Birth Date: | July 17, 1988 |
Height: | 6-3 |
Weight: | 220 |
Year: | So. |
Hometown: | Miami, FL |
High School: | Belen Jesuit |
Position: | Forward |
Major: | Business |
Parents: | Vince & Irma Fernandez |
Career: Through three seasons, he has played in
58 games, 37 as a starter ... Has scored in double figures on 34
occasions ... Has grabbed 10 or more rebounds in nine games ... Has
registered seven double-doubles (pts./rebs.) ... Has 11
performances of 20 or more points ... Entering the 2009-10
campaign, he ranks 11th all-time at Emory in career scoring average
(12.1 ppg) ... Has 273 career field goals and is three shy of
reaching the school's top 20 plateau ... Stands 14th on Emory's
career chart in field goal percentage (.458) and holds down the
11th position in free throw percentage (.773) ... Has pulled down
an average of 5.1 rebounds per contest, 15th on the Eagles'
all-time ladder.
Junior (2008-09): Played in all 25 games and drew 14
starting assignments ... Averaged 26.5 minutes per game, second
high on the team, and ranked as the club's top scorer with a 14.0
points per-game average, good for ninth place among UAA cagers ...
Second on the squad and tied for 15th in the conference in
rebounding (4.9 rpg) ... Earned his second straight
honorable-mention berth on the All-UAA Team ... Ranked 12th on the
UAA chart in scoring average in league affairs (12.5 ppg) ... Led
Emory in field goals (134), free throws (70) and steals (27) ...
Shot 81.4 percent from the foul line (70-of-86) in overall action,
third on the UAA ladder, and was fifth in that category for league
games (.837) ... Scored in double figures in 15 games and totaled
seven efforts of 20 or more points ... Three double-doubles to his
credit including one in the season opener vs. Oglethorpe (Nov. 17)
when he registered career highs in both points (28) and rebounds
(16) ... His rebound total in that game represented the high-water
mark by an Emory player during the year and tied for 13th on the
school's single-game list ... Scored 15 of his game-high 24 points
in the second half in helping the team to an 89-83 triumph in the
second Oglethorpe meeting (Nov. 25) ... Sank seven-of-12 from the
floor and all eight of his free throw attempts and recorded game
highs in both points (23) and rebounds (11) vs. Brandeis (Jan. 25)
... Came off the bench and was successful on eight-of-11 from the
field en route to a team-leading 19 points in 24 minutes vs.
Rochester (Feb. 6) ... Came through with a club-best 19 points vs.
NYU (Feb. 22) in an 80-79 double-overtime victory ... Averaged 14.8
points and shot 50 percent (25-of-50) from the field over the last
four games ... Led or shared for the team's scoring lead in 12
games and was the club's top rebounder on five occasions ... Pumped
in 17 of his game-high 22 points in the second half, knocking down
seven-of-nine from the floor in that final 20 minutes, in helping
the team to a 77-66 triumph over Sewanee (Dec. 9).
Sophomore (2007-08): Bounced back from an injury-shortened
2006-07 campaign to earn honorable mention All-UAA acclaim ...
Started 23 of the 24 games he saw action in ... Second on the team
and ninth among UAA players in scoring with a 14.1 per-game average
in overall action ... Tossed in 16.0 points per league outing,
second on the squad and fifth on the UAA chart ... Topped the team
and held down the sixth position on the UAA ladder in overall
rebounding (6.6 rpg) ... Snared 6.3 caroms per conference contest,
seventh on the league ladder ... Shot 47 percent from the floor
(134-of-285), 15th among UAA cagers ... Scored in double digits on
19 occasions and closed out the campaign by scoring 10 or more
points in the last 12 games of the year including four efforts of
20 or more points ... Led or shared for the team lead in rebounding
in 11 games and posted six double-figure performances in that
category ... Emory's top scorer in four contests ... Compiled four
double-doubles ... Tallied 14 of his game-high 23 points in the
second in helping the Eagles to an 89-85 win over Carnegie Mellon
(Jan. 27) ... Converted eight-of-14 from the field (1-of-1 from
three-point range) and a season-best seven-of-eight from the foul
line en route to a season-high 24 points vs. Chicago (Feb. 15) ...
Three outings of a season-high 12 rebounds (vs. Washington &
Lee, Nov. 20, Oglethorpe, Dec. 15, Washington University, Feb. 17)
... Showed a good touch from the charity stripe, hitting 71.9
percent (64-of-89) of his attempts, good for 14th spot on the UAA
ladder ... Hit nine-of-13 from the floor and finished with 20
points in the 81-76 overtime win over No. 1 Rochester (Jan. 25) ...
22-point (second high on the team), 11-rebound outing in season
finale at Case Western (Mar. 1) ... 338 total points and his 14.1
per-game scoring average ranked him 29th on Emory's seasonal lists
... 159 rebounds tied him for 25th place on the school's seasonal
chart.
Freshman (2006-07): Had seen action as a reserve in nine
of the first 10 games of the season before an injury suffered in
practice sidelined for the remainder of the year ... Averaged 5.2
minutes, 1.8 points and 1.6 rebounds per outing ... Picked up four
points and a season-best four rebounds in six minutes of action at
the University of the South (Nov. 30) ... Turned in another
four-point performance against the South (Dec. 6) .... Three
rebounds and a pair of steals in five minutes against Maryville
(Dec. 9).
Prior to Emory
Four-year member of the basketball program at Belen Jesuit
Prep School where he played for Jose Roca ... Averaged 19.0 points
and 10.6 rebound per game his senior season en route to second-team
all-state recognition ... Closed out his prep career as the
school's all-time leading scorer with 1,586 points ... First-team
all-county selection and was team MVP his junior and senior
campaigns ... As a junior, he scored at a 17.5 per-game clip ...
Finished with career with 1,100 rebounds ... Belen Jesuit brought
district titles his sophomore and junior seasons.
Personal: Born July 17, 1988 .. Son of Vince and
Irma Fernandez.
Career Stats
Year | GP-GS | FG-FGA | PCT | 3pt FG-FGA | PCT | FT-FTA | PTS | AVG | REB | AVG |
2006-07 | 9-0 | 5-12 | .417 | 0-0 | .000 | 6-6 | 16 | 1.8 | 14 | 1.6 |
2007-08 | 24-23 | 134-285 | .470 | 6-27 | .222 | 64-89 | 338 | 14.1 | 159 | 6.6 |
2008-09 | 25-14 | 134-299 | .448 | 12-33 | .364 | 70-86 | 350 | 14.0 | 123 | 4.9 |
TOTAL | 58-37 | 273-596 | .458 | 18-60 | .300 | 140-181 | 704 | 12.1 | 296 | 5.1 |
Career Highs
Points | 28 | at Oglethorpe, Nov. 17, 2008 |
24 | Oglethorpe, Nov. 25, 2008 | |
24 | University of Chicago, Feb. 15, 2008 | |
Rebounds | 16 | at Oglethorpe, Nov. 17, 2008 |
12 | Washington University, Feb. 17, 2008 | |
12 | Oglethorpe University, Dec. 15, 2007 | |
12 | Washington & Lee, Nov. 20, 2007 | |
Steals | 4 | vs. Maryville, Nov. 30, 2008 |
Assists | 4 | on two occasions |