Sports News: Spring 1999

May 12, 1999

GETTER SELECTED TO MACCABIAH PAN AMERICAN GAMES

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Senior Matt Getter (Broomall/Marple Newtown HS) of the Moravian College men’s basketball team has been named to the United States Jewish All-American Division III First Team and been selected to play for the United States in the Maccabiah Pan American Games this summer.

The Maccabiah Pan American Games will be played in Mexico City, Mexico between July 8th and 20th.

Getter led the US Jewish All-American team in three-point field goal percentage at 38.6 percent (71 made three-pointers of 184 attempts). Getter’s 71 three-pointers set the Moravian single season record. He also set the school marks for three-pointers in a game with nine against Elizabethtown College on January 23rd of this past season and in a career with 142.

This past winter, Getter was second on the Moravian squad with a 14.5 point per game. He added 78 rebounds, 50 steals and 38 assists. Getter was named to the Middle Atlantic Conference Executive Director’s All-Academic Team this season and was one the MAC Academic Honor Roll the previous two years.