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Yellowjacket Cagers Garner All-Conference Awards (March 11, 2003)

BILLINGS, MT – Senior Dan Thompson was named to the Pacific West All-Conference First Team on Tuesday as selected by the league’s coaches.  Thompson led five Yellowjackets who received recognition from the PacWest.  Guard Cameron Munoz was selected as the conference’s Freshman of the Year; senior center Kyle Stirmlinger was named to the all-conference second team; senior guard Willy Davison earned honorable mention all-conference honors; and sophomore Joe Cook, Davison and Thompson each were each named to the All-Academic Team.

""Thompson, a 6-foot-6 forward from Adelaide, South Australia, was the PacWest’s second leading scorer at 19.1 points per game.  He made 77 three-pointers and was second in the league with 2.85 three pointers per game.  In his final two games of the season, Thompson scored 76 total points and made 11 threes, giving him 110 for his career.  The 110 three-pointers place him 10th on the Yellowjacket all-time career list.""

Stirmlinger, a 6-11 center from Eagan, Minnesota, was named to the PacWest All-Conference second team.  He averaged 15.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per game and led the conference in blocked shots at 1.74 per game.  His 76 career blocked shots place him fourth in school history.  Stirmlinger led the league in field goal percentage for much of the season and finished the year fifth in that category.

""Davison, a 6-3 guard from Ballantine, Montana, earned all-conference honorable mention honors after leading the PacWest in assists at 6.07 per game.  Davison took over the point guard duties exclusively in the seventh game of the season and finished with 164 assists, the ninth-best single season total in school history.  In his career, Davison had 415 assists, No. 4 in Yellowjacket history.

Munoz, a 6-3 guard from Chino, California, was almost a unanimous choice for freshman of"" the year, receiving all but one vote.  He led the PacWest with 96 three-pointers (3.69 per game), which is an MSU Billings freshman record and the eighth-best single season total in school history.  He connected on 43.6 percent of his three-point attempts and is ranked fourth in the nation for three-pointers per game and 13th for three-point percentage.

""The Yellowjackets comprised three of the five players on the Academic All-Conference Team.  Davison had the second-highest GPA in the conference with a 3.74 while majoring in chemistry.  Joe Cook posted a 3.68 in business and Thompson had a 3.53 in psychology.

 

Pacific West Conference First Team
Name                      School      Pos.      Yr.           Ht.           Hometown                          
Alexus Foyle*#    BYUH        F           Sr.           6-6           Canouan, St. Vincent          
Scott Salisbury *  BYUH        C          Sr.           6-8           Richland, Washington       
Ryan Abrahams   UHH          G          Jr.            6-3           Los Angeles, California     
Leon Ballard          CU             F           Sr.           6-5           Sacramento, California       
Dan Thompson    MSUB       F           Sr.           6-6           Adelaide, South Australia 

Pacific West Conference Second Team
Name                           School  Pos.     Yr.           Ht.           Hometown                            
Nic Walters                HPU        G        Sr.           6-0           Salinas, California               
Kyle Stirmlinger         MSUB    F         Sr.           6-11         Eagan, Minnesota               
Leandro Maruoka     HPU       F         Sr.           6-8           Campinas, Brazil                 
Kyle Bartholomew+ UHH      F           Sr.           6-4           Hilo, Hawaii                          
Roy Stigall                  CU          G        Jr.            6-0           Sacramento, California       

Pacific West Conference Honorable Mention
Skip Esene (Hawaii-Hilo), Beau Nobmann (BYU-Hawaii), Brady Hyde (Hawaii-Hilo), Bryon Sykes (Chaminade), Marvin Noble (Hawaii Pacific), Willy Davison (MSU Billings), Joey Ramirez (Western New Mexico), Nate Block (Hawaii Pacific), Shawn Opunui (BYU-Hawaii)

 #Indicates Player of the Year last season
*Indicates first team selection last season
+Indicates second team selection last season 

Pacific West Conference All-Academic Team

Name                                      School                    Major                    GPA           Hometown
Malcolm Connor                  WNMU                  Business               3.82             Brooklyn, New York
Willy Davison                      MSUB                    Chemistry              3.74             Ballantine, Montana
Joe Cook                                MSUB                    Business               3.68              Shepherd, Montana 
Dan Thompson                    MSUB                    Psychology           3.53             Adelaide, South Australia
Spencer Lynn                       BYUH                     Biology                  3.42             Caldwell, Idaho

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