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2024-25 Little D2CAA All-American

Women's Basketball Ben Greenberg, Sports Communications Director

Little Named D2CCA First-Team All-America Selection

One of Two RMAC Players Named 2024-25 D2CCA All-Americans

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The postseason accolades continued to roll in for Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior women's basketball player Alisha Little (Aurora, Colo./University of Northern Colorado) on Tuesday afternoon as the forward was named a First-Team Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-America selection by the organization.

Tuesday's D2CCA First-Team All-America honor came five days after she became the school's first-ever WBCA Division II Coaches' All-American. She has now been an All-American selection by the D2CAA for the second straight season as she was named a Second-Team All-American last season.

The Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-America and All-Region Basketball Teams are sponsored by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA). The members of D2SIDA, NCAA Division II Sports Information Directors Association vote on the teams.

Little was one of two players from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and one of four players from the South Central Region to earn 2024-25 D2CCA All-America honors. In addition to Little, Colorado Mesa junior forward Olivia Reed Thyne was named a Second-Team All-American. Lubbock Christian senior forward Grace Foster was named a First-Team All-American, while Texas Woman's senior guard Ashley Ingram was tabbed a Second-Team All-American.

The 6-foot-1 forward earns her D2CCA First-Team All-America honor after leading the RMAC in scoring (24.9), points scored (723), rebounding (11.4), total rebounds (332), steals (2.9), total steals (83), blocked shots (3.6), total blocked shots (104), field goal attempts (542), free throws made (174), free throw attempts (234) and double-doubles (23). Little, who repeated as both the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year and a First-Team All-RMAC selection, is second in NCAA Division II in scoring, points per game, blocks per game, double-doubles, free throw attempts and is third in Division II in total blocks, field goals made and is fourth in Division II in field goal attempts, and free throws made.

During the regular season, Little, who repeated this season as a First-Team D2CCA All-South Central Region selection, earned a league-best eight RMAC Player of the Week accolades as she was named the Defensive Player of the Week three times, the Offensive Player of the Week once, and earned both the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week accolades in the same week four times. In her career with the Pack, she was a 22-time RMAC Player of the Week. In addition, she was a three-time WBCA/D2CIDA Division II National Player of the Week.

Little set single-season school records for scoring (723), scoring average (24.9), field goals made (258), and blocked shots (116) and is the only Division II women's basketball player to score over 700 points, pull down 300 rebounds and block 100 shots this season. Her 723 points this season is the third-most in a season in RMAC history and also the third-most all-time in a single season in the state of Colorado history.

She ended the season recording 12 double-doubles over her last 14 games and tallied double-doubles in 47 of her last 61 games dating to the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Among active Division II players, she is first in career blocked shot average (3.4), second in total career blocked shots (294) and career scoring average (20.7), and third in career double-doubles (52) and is one of seven players with 2,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Additionally, her 2,621 career points ranked fourth among all active NCAA women's basketball players at all levels, while her combined 73 career double-doubles are second among all active NCAA women's basketball players and is one of just two active NCAA women's basketball players with 2,000 career points, 1,000 career rebounds and 350 career blocked shots.

Little, who began her collegiate career at Northern Colorado before transferring to CSU Pueblo before the 2021-22 season, closed her career second in the state of Colorado history in scoring with 2,621 points and is the state's all-time leader in both rebounding (1,362) and blocked shots (424) and she holds CSU Pueblo career records for scoring (1,801), scoring average (20.7), field goals made (659), blocked shots (294) and double-doubles (52).

Along with announcing its All-America Teams, the D2CCA also named Southwest Minnesota State senior guard Bri Stoltzman as the 2024-25 Ron Lenz National Player of the Year.

Little, Stoltzman, and Foster were joined on the D2CCA All-America First Team by Grand Valley State's Rylie Bisballe and Cal State Dominguez Hills' Nala Williams.

Reed and Ingram were joined on the D2CCA All-America Second Team by East Stroudburg's Emily Chmiel, North Georgia's Caroline Martin, and Frostburg State's Emilee Weakley.

The D2CCA All-America Third Team features Harding's Sage Hawley, Central Washington's Sunny Huerta, Anderson's Diamond McDowell, Fort Hays State's Katie Wagner DeGarmo, and Alabama-Huntsville's Lilli Wilken.

The D2CCA Honorable Mention All-Americans are Concordia-St. Paul's Lindsey Becher, Georgia Southwestern's Destiny Garrett, Southern Nazarene's Hannah Giddey, Saint Anselm's Melanie Hoyt, Fairmont State's Leslie Huffman and Ashland's Zoe Miller.

Little helped the ThunderWolves finish the 2024-25 campaign with an 18-11 overall record and a tie for fourth place in the RMAC with a 13-7 record. The Pack advanced to the RMAC Tournament for the fourth consecutive season and fell in the first round at No. 4 seeded Black Hills State.
 
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