One of three fourth-year seniors on team in 2016-17...
Coach Geitner: “David will be returning for his fourth year in the program, possessing an inside presence, both offensively and defensively.”
2016/17: season-highs (p-r-a-b): 17-9-2-3
2015/16: Came off the bench in 23 games, setting personal career-bests in most every category... after shooting 58.8 percent from the foul line as a freshman, connected on 82.4 percent of his 34 tries, second-best among those averaging at least one FT per game... ranked fifth in the LEC in rebounds per 40 minutes (11.8) and seventh in blocks per 40 minutes (1.9)... had one double-double (12/career-high 13) in a 58-56 LEC loss at Rhode Island College Jan. 30, sinking 5 of 7 FGs and both FT attempts and blocking two shots with only one turnover in a career-high 25 minutes... in the championship game of the Hamilton Invitational, had 12 points and five rebounds without a turnover in 23 minutes...made all of his FTs in a game seven times, including 5-of-5 in an 88-57 LEC win against Plymouth State Feb. 6... had at least one rebound in 22 of 23 appearances... commited one or no turnovers in 19 of 23 games... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 13-13-2-2...
2014/15: In a similar number of attempts, shot more than 14 percentage points higher than his freshman season... averaged 2.6 blocked shots per 40 minutes played... made his one start in his seventh appearance of the season, playing a season-high 18 minutes Jan. 6 against Amherst... equalled his career high with three blocked shots in that game to go along with two points, two rebounds and a steal... in one four-game stretch, was 6-of-9 from the floor... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 8-8-1-3...
2013/14: One of four newcomers and two 'true' freshmen to finish the season with the team... saw time in the first 16 games of the year -- starting the first ten -- and in all but four on the season... connected on his first FG on his first attempt in his debut against Worcester State, also grabbing two rebounds and blocking two shots in 12 minutes... grabbed at least one rebound in nine of his last 11 appearances... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 6-4-2-2...
Career-highs (thru 16/17): 30 min., 17 pts., 13 reb., 2 assists, 3 blocks, 2 steals, zero 3-pointers...
High School: Played four years of basketball... all-conference... MVP as a senior captain...
Other: Played for Connecticut Elite, Connecticut Mavericks and Connecticut Select out of Waterbury...
PERSONAL: Born David C. Canny June 5, 1995… Parents: Lynn and David… Sister: Chelsea… Major: Health Sciences… Career Plans: Physical therapy… Residence: Canton, CT...
DAVID... REVEALED
Your pre-game ritual: Listen to the same ten songs
Personal goal for the season: Have my best season out of all my time on this team
Your most overused phrase: “Damn son”
Favorite place to stop for food after a competition: Moe’s
Pet peeve: Repeating myself or being interrupted
If you could describe yourself in one word, it would be: Tall
Biggest waste of money: Chipotle, just go to Moe’s.
Biggest adjustment to college life: Not seeing your parents or friends you grew up with every day.
If you were to choose a superpower what would it be: Being able to fly
If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go: Ireland
Biggest crisis facing the world: Mosquitoes
Your spirit animal: A Moose
Something no one would miss if it were to be blown up/destroyed: Mosquitoes
One thing you would like to do before you died: Go skydiving
The automobile you would buy tomorrow if you had the money: A Camaro
Dream job: Being a PT/Trainer for the NBA
Job you consider the hardest or worst to do for a living: Working at the DMV
Longest time you have watched a Netflix series: The Office
Number of hours watching the 2016 Olympics: Not a whole lot, I was on vacation
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Basketball, Volleyball, or Track and Field
Greatest story to come out of the 2016 Olympics: Those girls that won the Gymnastics and they’re all so young
Greatest Olympian of all time: Michael Phelps, GOAT
What was the best/worst place Pokémon Go has brought you: Behind Panera Bread in Torrington
Favorite Instagram filter: #NoFilter
Last person you hugged: Adrianna Mihalek
Greatest sports dynasty of all-time: Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls
If you could meet anyone who would it be: Shaquille O’Neal
If your life could be made into a movie, the title would be: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
