Lieber Named to All-Region Team (3/7/07)

BILLINGS, MT – Montana State-Billings senior Michelle Lieber has been named to the Daktronics NCAA Division II South Central Region Second Team that was announced Wednesday.  The 6-foot-0 forward from Gillette, Wyo., is the Yellowjackets’ first all-region selection since Robyn Milne was named to the All-West Region Second Team in both 2004 and 2005.

Lieber was also named the 2007 Heartland Conference Player of the Year on Wednesday, an award she has won for two-straight years.  She averaged 16.8 points and 8.9 rebounds a game this season in leading the Yellowjackets to a 22-9 overall record.  MSUB was 7-3 in the Heartland Conference to win the HLC regular season crown for the second year in a row.  Last week the Jackets won the Heartland Conference tournament to earn their tenth trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last 14 years.  It is their eleventh all-time appearance in the NCAA II Tournament dating back to 1987.  MSUB will play Missouri Western State in the first round on Friday in St. Joseph, MO.

Lieber was a three-year starter for the Yellowjackets after transferring from the University of Wyoming, where she started every game as a true freshman.  In her three seasons as a Yellowjacket, Lieber has scored 1,089 points and recorded 726 rebounds.  She ranks seventh in school history for career rebounds and seventeenth for career points.  Lieber holds the top three single season records for field goal percentage at MSUB, and this season she leads the nation in field goal percentage at 70.3 percent.

The all-region teams are sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing, and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition.  Members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) nominate and vote on the all-region teams.