Kendrick Perry
Basketball
2012-13
Junior guard Kendrick Perry guided the men’s basketball team to the program’s most wins in more than a decade and to it’s first Division I postseason tournament berth in 2012-13. The 33rd player to score 1,000 career points, he ranks 17th all-time with 1,309 points and is the fifth men’s basketball player to earn the YSU/Vindicator Male Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year Award.
Just the second YSU player to garner back-to-back All-Horizon League First-Team honors, and the first since Quin Humphrey in 2005-06 and 2006-07, Perry ranks third all-time with 170 career steals and fifth all-time with 365 career assists.
For his career, Perry is averaging 14.4 points per game and ranks eighth all-time with 139 3-pointers made and tied for ninth all-time with 314 made free throws.
In 2012-13, Perry was an Academic All-Horizon League selection, a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District First Team pick and earned All-Horizon League First-Team honors after scoring with 17.3 points per game and leading the league with 1.9 steals per game.
Perry also led the Penguins to 18 victories, the most since 2000-01, and to consecutive winning seasons for the first time since 1983-84 and 1984-85.
He ranked fifth in the Horizon League with a .845 free-throw percentage, sixth with 4.1 assists per game and 10th with 5.5 rebounds per game. Perry also scored in double figures 25 times, had 10 20-point performances and two 30-point efforts.
He scored the 1,000th point of his career against Marygrove on Dec. 29, 2012, in a 93-52 victory.
Prior to the start of the 2012-13 season, Perry was named to the Bob Cousy Award Watch List, an award given to the top point guard in the nation.
As a sophomore in 2011-12, Perry was named All-Horizon League First-Team after leading the league in scoring (16.8 ppg) and with 74 steals. He became just the fifth player in Horizon League history to lead the league in both categories in the same season. His 74 steals set the YSU single-season record.
An NABC All-District Second-Team selection, Perry scored in double figures 27 times, including nine 20-point outings, and in 13 straight games to end the season. He made a career-best 54 3-pointers and ranked ninth in the league with 1.7 3-pointers made per game. He also ranked tied for first in the Horizon League with a 1.9 assist-to-turnover ratio.
The Penguins finished the season with a 16-15 record, including a program-best 10 wins in the Horizon League.
During his freshman season in 2010-11, he scored 269 points with 108 rebounds, a team-high 122 assists and 40 steals. Perry, who scored in double figures 15 times, averaged nine points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.
That season, Perry hit the game-winning three-pointer and scored 14 points in a 62-60 win over eventual National Runner-Up Butler on Feb. 3, 2010.
A graduate of Edgewater High School and a native of Ocoee, Fla., he is the son of Deborah and Aubrey Perry, Jr. Majoring in criminal justice, Perry owns a grade-point average of 3.36.
