Add another All-America honor for Colorado Mesa's Olivia Reed Thyne.
The Mavericks' 6-foot junior forward from Windsor was voted onto the D2 Conference Commissioner's Association All-America second team, the association announced Tuesday (March 24). It's the fourth All-America award in the past two seasons for Reed Thyne, the two-time RMAC Player of the Year and Academic Player of the Year.
Last week, she earned a spot on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association honorable mention All-America team for the second straight season, and was a D2CCA third-team pick as a sophomore.
The D2CCA team is selected by Division II sports communications directors across the country who cover the sport.
CSU Pueblo's Alisha Little made the first team, and she and Reed Thyne are the only two players from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to make the elite list of 21 players, three five-player tiers, plus six more receiving honorable mention honors.
Bri Stoltzman of Southwest Minnesota State was selected the Ron Lenz National Player of the Year.
Reed Thyne averaged 22.1 points and 10.9 rebounds a game this season, leading the Mavericks a 25-6 record, a second straight RMAC Championship and another appearance in the NCAA Division II South Central Region tournament. She recorded 19 double-doubles, which ranked fourth in the nation this season, scored in double figures in all but one game, had seven 30-point games and broke the program's single-game scoring record when she put up 45 against Pittsburg State in late December.
Reed Thyne, who earlier Tuesday was one of four CMU players selected to the Division II College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® team, scored 685 points this season, second-most in program history and one of only 11 such seasons in RMAC history.
She shot an RMAC-leading 57.1 percent from the field, which ranks eighth in Division II, the third straight season she's led the conference in that category. Reed Thyne is second in career scoring at CMU with 1,596 points and third in career rebounding with 974. She is on track to become only the third player in CMU history with 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career.
Her 279 made field goals are a single-season program record and rank second in the nation and she's No. 2 all-time in career field goals made with 659, only 40 behind leader Tonya Stites. Reed Thyne needs 325 points to become the most prolific scorer in program history and 59 rebounds to take over that record, both currently held by Stites.
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D2CCA All-America Team
FIRST TEAM
* Bri Stoltzman, Southwest Minnesota State
Rylie Bisballe, Grand Valley State
Grace Foster, Lubbock Christian
Alisha Little, Colorado State-Pueblo
Nala Williams, Cal State Dominguez Hills
* Ron Lenz National Player of the Year
SECOND TEAM
Emily Chmiel, East Stroudsburg
Ashley Ingram, Texas Woman's
Caroline Martin, North Georgia
Olivia Reed Thyne, Colorado Mesa
Emilee Weakley, Frostburg State
THIRD TEAM
Sage Hawley, Harding
Sunny Huerta, Central Washington
Diamond McDowell, Anderson
Katie Wagner DeGarmo, Fort Hays State
Lili Wilken, Alabama-Huntsville
HONORABLE MENTION
Lindsey Becher, Concordia-St. Paul
Destiny Garrett, Georgia Southwestern
Hannah Giddey, Southern Nazarene
Melanie Hoyt, Saint Anselm
Leslie Huffman, Fairmont State
Zoe Miller, Ashland