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MSUB’s Visger Garners Academic Honors (February 20, 2003)

BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings women’s basketball player Natalie Visger was named to the Verizon Academic All-District VII Second Team as selected by CoSIDA on Thursday.  Visger, a senior from Gillette, Wyoming, has posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.91 while majoring in biology.  ""

There were 86 student-athletes nominated for the Verizon Academic All-America Team from 45 institutions in the district.  Five each were named to the first, second and third teams.  Each school in the district, regardless of whether it had nominated a student-athlete, could vote for five players to be on the All-District VII team.  Visger earned second-team honors despite the fact that she was the only student-athlete from an independent team and the only student athlete from a West Region school.

The CoSIDA districts are not aligned with NCAA regions, thus placing MSU Billings with Midwest schools even though it competes in the far West Region.  The criteria for the award include both academic and athletic achievement.  In what speaks volumes of her qualifications, Visger garnered enough votes to earn second team honors even though MSU Billings had not competed against any of the schools that were able to vote for her.

""Visger is a four-year letter winner who has led the Yellowjackets to the No. 4 ranking in the West Region poll this season.  If the Lady Jackets remain in the top eight (they have four games remaining), they will qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year and the third time in Visger’s four years at the school. 

Visger has been the Lady Yellowjackets’ leader on and off the floor all season.  She is averaging a team-high 15 points and nine rebounds per game and became just the fifth Yellowjacket to surpass 1000 career points and 700 career rebounds.  She will finish the season as the 15th most prolific scorer in the program’s history as well as the school’s most accurate free throw shooter.  Visger will graduate in May with a degree in biology.

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