Saturday, March 17, 2012

WWU's Brad Jackson was named NABC Region Coach of the Year, and Taylor Rohde of Alaska Anchorage and Rory Blanche of Western Washington have been selected to the NABC NCAA Division II West Region first team all-star team.

Two Seattle Pacific players were named to the second team - center Andy Poling and guard David Downs.

In addition to being selected to the coaches' NABC team, both Rohde and Blanche were earlier named to the Daktronics team which is selected by sports information directors.

Western Washington coach Brad Jackson, who led the Vikings to the West Region title, was voted the NABC West Region Coach of the Year. It is the third NABC Coach of the Year honor for Jackson, who also was named in 2001 and 2010.

NABC (Coaches): First Team - Taylor Rohde, Alaska Anchorage (C, 6-9, Sr., Phoenix, AZ); Reggie Jones, Cal State Stanislaus (C, 6-9, Sr., Paterson, NJ); Rory Blanche, Western Washington (F, 6-6, Sr., Ashland, OR); Randy Hunter, Humboldt State (F, 6-6, Sr., Santa Maria, CA); Tsung-Hsien (Jet) Chang, BYU-Hawaii (G, 6-4, Sr., Yilan, Taiwan); Jay Flores, Chico State (G, 6-0, Sr., Sacramento, CA). Second Team - Andy Poling, Seattle Pacific (C, 6-11, Jr., Portland, OR);Mitchel Anderson, Cal Poly Pomona (G, 6-4, Jr., Temecula, CA); David Downs, Seattle Pacific (G, 6-2, So., Kirkland, WA); Steven Pratt, Sonoma State (G, 6-4, Sr., Pleasanton, CA); Maurice Cole, Dixie State (G, 6-0, Sr., Norwalk, CA).

Daktronics (SIDs): First Team - Taylor Rohde, Alaska Anchorage (C, 6-9, Sr., Phoenix, AZ); Rory Blanche, Western Washington (F, 6-6, Sr., Ashland, OR); Tsung-Hsien (Jet) Chang, BYU-Hawaii (G, 6-4, Sr., Yilan, Taiwan); Jay Flores, Chico State (G, 6-0, Sr., Sacramento, CA); Antoine Proctor, Montana State Billings (G, 6-3, Sr., Washington, DC). Second Team- Reggie Jones, Cal State Stanislaus (C, 6-9, Sr., Paterson, NJ); Mitchel Anderson, Cal Poly Pomona (G, 6-4, Jr., Temecula, CA); Blair Wheadon, Western Oregon (G, 6-3, Sr., Junction City, OR); Kwame Alexander, Cal State San Bernardino (F, 6-7, Jr., Moreno Valley, CA); Damario Sims, Chico State (G, 6-0, Jr., Oakland, CA).