DII Bulletin Names Lieber to All-American Team (3/26/07)

BILLINGS, MT – Montana State-Billings forward Michelle Lieber has been named to the Division II Bulletin All-American Honorable Mention Team.  Lieber is a senior from Gillette, Wyo.

Lieber averaged 17.2 points and 9.1 rebounds a game this season, leading the Yellowjackets to a 22-10 overall record.  MSU Billings won its second-straight Heartland Conference regular season title and the Heartland Conference Tournament title.  The Yellowjackets qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the tenth time in the last 14 seasons and the eleventh time since 1987.  In Lieber’s three seasons at MSU Billings, the Yellowjackets won two regular season conference titles, one conference tournament title, and qualified for the NCAA Tournament two times.

Lieber adds the DII Bulletin All-American honor to the list of awards she received this season.  She was named the 2007 Heartland Conference Player of the Year, an award she won for two-straight years, and was also selected to the Daktronics All-South Central Region Second Team.  Lieber was named the Heartland player of the week four times this year.

Lieber led the nation in field goal percentage, shooting 68.1 percent for the season.  In her three-year career at MSUB, Lieber became one of only seven players to amass over 1,000 career points and 700 career rebounds.  She finished with 1,115 points and 740 rebounds, ranking seventeenth and sixth in school history respectively.  Her 66.45 percent career field goal percentage broke the old school record by nearly six points, and she set the top three single-season marks for field goal percentage at MSUB.