KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones added 2022-23 National Association of Basketball Coaches Division II All-District West Second Team honors to his list of postseason accolades as announced Monday morning.
Tait-Jones was also previously named to the All-Pacific West Conference First Team and to Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association All-West Region Second Team.
The All-District honors are voted on by NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division II.
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
The NABC is the nation's largest professional association of basketball coaches and currently claims a membership of nearly 5,000 coaches throughout the ranks of the NCAA, NAIA, USCAA, NCCAA, two-year colleges, high schools and youth programs.
Founded in 1927 by legendary University of Kansas men's basketball coach Forrest "Phog" Allen, the NABC began as an emergency measure for the presentation of a united opinion after the Joint Basketball Rules Committee — then the central governing authority of the game — announced without notice that it had adopted a change in the rules which virtually eliminated the dribble. Allen, a student of basketball founder James Naismith, organized coaches to take a stand in a nationwide protest which successfully postponed the adoption of the rule change for one year.
This marked the start of a collective group of coaches serving as Guardians of the Game. Since its inception, the NABC has also contributed numerous ideas and programs to enhance and preserve college basketball including establishing the original Basketball Hall of Fame (Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame), creating the format for today's NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, originating the Final Four Fan Fest concept and launching Coaches vs. Cancer.
NABC Division II All-District West
COACH OF THE YEAR
Matt Logie – Point Loma
FIRST TEAM
Kaden Anderson – Point Loma
Shaw Anderson – Seattle Pacific
Brandon Knapper – CSU San Bernardino
Ken West – Azusa Pacific
Carrington Wiggins – Montana State Billings
SECOND TEAM
Kyle Greeley – Saint Martin's
Greg Milton III – CSU San Marcos
Dontrell Shuler – CSU San Bernardino
Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones – Hawai'i Hilo
Jaylen Wells – Sonoma State
