Albany, N.Y. - The University at Albany women's basketball team has signed four players to National Letters of Intent for the 2011-12 academic year, as announced by head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Megan Craig will join the Great Danes for the 2011 spring semester classes, while Margarita Rosario, Sarah Royals and Allysia Rohlehr will attend UAlbany in the fall.

            Craig is a 6-foot-9 center from Whangarei, New Zealand. She is a member of New Zealand's national teams, and won the U-19 national title as a member of the North Harbour squad in 2010. Craig is also a member of the New Zealand Women's Force Basketball Academy, and has been a nominee for the Tai Tokerau Maori Sport Awards in the junior women's category every year since 2008. She was Kamo High School's Sportswoman of the Year in 2008, and was the ASB Northland Secondary School's Basketball Sportswoman of the Year that same season. Craig averaged 20 points, 15 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game last season, en route to being a regional representation player for Northland and North Harbour.

            Rosario was a four-year letterwinner at Felix Varela High in Miami, Fla. She compiled 1,252 points, 296 assists, 242 rebounds and 208 steals in her first three seasons and led the Vipers to 41 wins in three years. Rosario is on track to break all of Felix Varela's school records for both boys' and girls' basketball and is among Florida's top point guards. As one of the leading scorers in Miami girls' basketball, she was named to the Miami Herald All-Dade County team last season.

            Royals, a native of Torrington, Conn., is a two-time All-Naugatuck Valley and All-Suburban honoree, after leading the Naugatuck Valley League in scoring for the past two seasons. Royals, who had 1,034 career points going into her senior season, led the team in scoring, assists and steals as a sophomore and a junior, and was a Connecticut High School Coaches' Association all-state selection as a junior. A senior captain, she is one of ten players in the state of Connecticut to be nominated as a McDonald's All-American and was Wendy's High School Heisman State Winner in 2010. Royals was also a four-year soccer letterwinner for Torrington, earning all-league and all-state honors as a team captain, and is Torrington's record holder in the 800-meter run as a three-year letterwinner for the track and field team.

            Rohlehr is a native of Island Park, N.Y., and is attending St. John the Baptist High School as a senior after spending three years at St. Michael Academy in New York City. A three-year letterwinner for St. Michael, she led the team to the NYS Class AA Federation title in 2008-09, and was named a NYS All-Star and All-Manhattan second team by the New York Daily News that season. As a junior, she was an All-Manhattan honorable mention after suffering an injury. A 4.0 student, Rohlehr is a member of the National Society of High School Scholars and earned the Honora Nagle Honor Society Award in 2009. She has been a tutor in the Star Tutoring Program and was a McGraw-Hill Intern Finalist in 2010. She has been nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine and the Congressional Youth Leadership Council, and was invited to participate in People to People International as a Sports Ambassador.

"We are very exciting about the four young women who have decided to be a part of our Albany women's basketball family," said Abrahamson-Henderson, who has guided the Great Danes to their best start in their Division I history. "All four will fit into the mold we will always look for to bring into our program. They all are high character people first, believe in academic excellence and are very talented basketball players. Our players, coaches and administration are so excited to welcome these phenomenal women into our program."

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UAlbany Women's Basketball Recruits

Megan Craig - Whangarei, New Zealand/Kamo High School

Margarita Rosario - Miami, Fla./Felix Varela High School

Sarah Royals - Torrington, Conn./Torrington High School

Allysia Rohlehr - Island Park, N.Y./St. John the Baptist