LONGMONT, Colo. – The Colorado Collegiate Chronicle released its All-Colorado Teams for women's basketball on Tuesday afternoon and Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior three-time All-American forward
Alisha Little (Aurora, Colo./University of Northern Colorado) was named the publication's Centennial State's Women's Basketball Player of the Year and a repeat All-Colorado First-Team selection.
Along with being named the Centennial State's Women's Basketball Player of the Year and a repeat All-Colorado First Team selection, Little was also named to the All-Colorado Prep Products Team and the All-Defensive Team by the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle.
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Tim Simmons, produces the Colorado Collegiate Chronicle to inform interested individuals of basketball happenings at two and four-year schools in The Centennial State. The All-Colorado Teams recognize the best players throughout the state at the collegiate level, regardless of their institution's affiliation. Members of the All-Colorado Teams include student-athletes from Air Force, Colorado, Colorado State, Northern Colorado, and Denver at the Division I level and Mines, Colorado Mesa, Colorado Christian, CSU Pueblo, Fort Lewis, MSU Denver, Regis, UCCS and Western Colorado at the Division II level and Colorado College at the Division III level.
Little, who repeated as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year and was a First-Team WBCA Division II Coaches' and a D2CCA All-American selection, earns the Centennial State's Women's Basketball Player of the Year 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).
The other members of the All-Colorado Women's First Team were Colorado Mesa junior forward Olivia Reed Thyne, Colorado College senior forward/center Zoe Tomlinson, Colorado State graduate student forward Emma Ronsiek, Air Force senior guard
Madison Smith, and UCCS junior guard Amyah Moore Allen.
The All-Colorado Second Team consisted of Colorado junior forward Jade Masogayo, Denver junior guard Jordan Jones, Adams State junior guard Kiiyani Anitielu, Western Colorado senior center Rachel Cockman, Regis graduate student guard Erin Fry, and Colorado Mesa senior guard Kylie Kravig.
In addition to Little, Pack senior guard
Tomia Johnson (Colorado Springs, Colo./Florida Gulf Coast) was named the All-Colorado Prep Products Team as the Second-Team All-RMAC selection after averaging 8.6 points, 1.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 1.6 steals per game and tallied nine double-digit games in the regular season. She ranked seventh in the league in assists and assists per game and capped her career with 339 career assists, which is fifth on the school's career chart, and is also fifth on the school's career chart in steals with 202. In her career with the Pack, she scored 808 points, pulled down 217 rebounds, dished out 339 assists, and collected 202 steals in 14 games. She is one of five players in school history to record 200 or more steals. She tallied 31 career double-digit scoring games, including scoring a career-high 20 points earlier this season at Westminster. In 20 RMAC games this season, she averaged 9.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game and shot 37 percent from the field and 29 percent from the 3-point line.
Joining Little and Johnson on the All-Colorado Prep Products Team were Reed Thyne, Moore Allen, Kravig, and Colorado Mines junior guard Jenna Siebert.
Senior guard
Tosjanae Bonds (Denver, Colo./MSU Denver) was named to the All-Defensive Team after Bonds after averaging 5.1 points, 3.9 rebounds, 0.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game. She was third in the league in steals per game, fifth in total steals (59), and 17th among active Division II players in career steals with 234 steals. Bonds, who was named an Honorable Mention All-RMAC selection, scored in double figures in 26 career games, including four times this season, including tallying a season-high 19 points at Adams State. Also posted two career double-doubles, including recording 13 points and 10 rebounds at home against Adams State. In RMAC play, she averaged 6.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 2.6 steals per game. She was joined on the All-Defensive Team by Little and Reed Thyne.
Little, Johnson and Bonds helped the Pack finish the season with an 18-11 overall record and tied for fourth in the RMAC with a 13-7 record and earned the No. 5 seed in the RMAC Tournament. In the RMAC Tournament, the Pack suffered an 82-56 loss at No. 4 seeded Black Hills State in the quarterfinal round in Spearfish, S.D.
All-Colorado First Team
Alisha Little, Sr., F, CSU Pueblo
Olivia Reed Thyne, Jr., F, Colorado Mesa
Zoe Tomlinson, Sr., F/C, Colorado College
Emma Ronsiek, Grad., F, Colorado State
Maddie Smith, Sr., G, Air Force
Amyah Moore Allen, Jr., G, UCCS
All-Colorado Second Team
Jade Masogayo, Jr., F, Colorado
Jordan Jones, Jr., G, Denver
Kiiyani Anitielu, Jr., G, Adams State
Rachel Cockman, Sr., C, Western Colorado
Erin Fry, Grad., G, Regis
Kylie Kravig, Sr., G, Colorado Mesa
All-Colorado Freshman Team
Brooke Carlson, G, Colorado State
Kloe Froebe, G, Colorado State
Taejhuan Hill, F, Adams State
Navaeh Millard, G, MSU Denver
Tabitha Betson, F, Colorado
Kennedy Sanders, G, Colorado
All-Colorado Bench Team
Keelie O'Hollaren, So., G, Air Force
Katie Lamb, Fr., G, Fort Lewis
Brooke Carlson, Fr., G, Colorado State
Nyamer Drew, Grad., F, Colorado
Brianna Sealy, Jr., F, MSU Denver
Coryn Watts, So., G, Denver
All-Colorado Prep Products
Alisha Little, CSU Pueblo
Olivia Reed Thyne, Colorado Mesa
Amyah Moore Allen, UCCS
Kylie Kravig, Colorado Mesa
Jenna Siebert, Mines
Tomia Johnson, CSU Pueblo
All-Colorado Defensive Team
Alisha Little, CSU Pueblo
Tosjanae Bonds, CSU Pueblo
Olivia Reed Thyne, Colorado Mesa
Zoe Tomlinson, Colorado College
Maddie Smith, Air Force
Mikylah Espinosa, MSU Denver
Angeline Nageak, Adams State