Lynn men’s hoops adds guard for 2010-2011 Season

By Jeffrey Messman

BOCA RATON – Lynn University’s men’s basketball team has signed guard Josh Garcia to a National Letter of Intent, announced head coach Scott McMillin.  Garcia will join the Fighting Knights as a junior for the 2010-11 season.

“We are absolutely ecstatic about Josh being a part of our men’s basketball program next season,” McMillin said.  “Josh is mature, strong, ultra-competitive and a good defender.  He was a player that we really wanted throughout the recruiting process, and we couldn’t be happier about it.”

A combo guard from Oldsmar, Fla., Garcia played the past two seasons at Pasco Hernando Community College.  Tabbed First Team All-Suncoast Conference as a junior, he averaged 16.6 points, 3.9 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game for the Quistas and finished as the seventh-leading scorer in all Florida junior colleges.  Garcia also shot a solid 39.4 percent from three-point range to rank eighth in the state.

“Offensively, Josh shoots it very well but can also create problems off the dribble,” McMillin continued.  “We wanted a guard that is dynamic in both his scoring abilities and his ability to see the floor and create for others.  Our system is built for those kinds of guards and Josh fits that mold perfectly.”

Garcia joins early signee Craig Brown as newcomers for the upcoming campaign.  The pair will join a veteran squad that returns eight letter winners and seven upperclassmen next season