North Central Missouri College freshman Tyler King (St. Louis, MO) has been named as one of ten selections to the NJCAA Division II First-Team All-America list. King was the leading scorer for a Pirate team that reached the quarterfinal round of the national tournament in Danville, Illinois last month, going 2-2 in the annual event.
King was joined by Nakavieon White of national champion National Park College (Arkansas), the squad that ended NCMC’s national championship hopes with a quarterfinal victory. Chandler-Gilbert’s (AZ) Andre Harris was named to the squad, along with South Suburban (IL) sophomore Jemel Jones, Monroe (NY) sophomore Terrell Williams, Milwaukee Area Tech (WI) sophomore Sheldon Williams-Dryden, Florida State-Jacksonville sophomore Tarence Guinyard, Des Moines Area (IA) sophomore Angelo Winkel, Howard (MD) sophomore Andrew Mills, and Parkland (IL) sophomore Jabryn Anderson.
For the second time in NCMC program history, the Pirates had two players earn national All-America status, with sophomore point guard Isaiah Reams (Mexico, MO) named third-team All-American. Other players of regional interest named to the third-team are Highland (KS) center Chris Flippin and Johnson County (KS) sophomore Massi Malterer.
From Ellsworth (IA) Community College, Chimodi Ikegwuruka was named a second-team All-American. Ja’Bryant Hill of national champion National Park was named second-team All-American as well. Cayden Redfield of United Tribes Tech (ND), the team North Central beat in the opening round of the national tournament, was a second-teamer, in addition to Juwan Maxey of Macomb (MI), the team defeated by the Pirates in second-round action in Danville.
The NJCAA Division Two women’s All-American teams have been announced, with no NCMC Lady Pirates earning a spot on the first, second, or third teams.
Four freshmen were named women’s first-team All-Americans, in Iowa Western’s McKenna Minter, Pima’s (AZ) Rylei Waugh and Jaida Brooks, and Kirkwood’s (IA) Jenna Twedt.
National champion Kirkwood had two players named first-team All-America, with Twedt joined by sophomore Demetria Prewitt. The remainder of the first-team selections were sophomores Jada Johnson of Kansas City Kansas; Khila Morris of Union, New Jersey; Ashley Dickey of CCBC Essex (MD); Alyssa Cole of Parkland (IL), and Jazzy Klinge of national runner-up Johnson County, Kansas.
Saige Grampsas of Johnson County was named to the second-team, in addition to Jakayla Kirk of Jefferson College, the team that defeated NCMC in the Region 16 championship game in early March. The Lady Pirates reached the national tournament in Joplin, Missouri as an at-large selection, going 1-2 in the event at Missouri Southern State University.
NCMC’s women beat Southwestern Michigan in the opening round of the tournament. SWM had sophomore Cameron Thomas named to the third-team, along with Southeast (NE) sophomore guard Matalynn Campbell.
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