ALL-NORTHWEST CONFERENCE: Stockner Earns Honorable Mention All-NWC for Bruins

Alex Stockner All-NWC Honorable Mention

2008-09 All-Northwest Conference Men's Basketball Teams 

NEWBERG, Ore. – Junior post Alex Stockner, a transfer from Western Oregon University, made an impact not just on the George Fox University Bruins  during the 2008-09 men’s basketball season but also on the Northwest Conference coaches, who have made him an honorable mention selection for All-Conference honors as announced recently by the league office.

Stockner, who hails from Monmouth, Ore., moved into the Bruins’ starting lineup in the fourth game of the season and never left it.  He led the team in scoring with 14.9 points a game and in rebounding with 5.1 per game, both figures ranking 10th in the conference.  His field goal percentage of .562 was fourth in the league and was ranked in the top 50 nationally for most of the year.  He also shot .689 from the field and had 24 steals, 23 assists, and six blocked shots.

During the season, he scored in double figures 21 times, tallying 20 or more four times, with a high of 25 against Whitman.  He had a season high of nine rebounds three times, vs. Northwest Christian, Northwest (Wash.), and Pacific.  In the Northwest Christian game, he had a perfect shooting game, hitting 5-5 from the floor, including a three-pointer, and 6-6 from the line.  He topped the Bruins in scoring 11 times and in rebounds nine times.

Stockner was named the Bruin Athletic Association’s Men’s Athlete of the Week seven times during the cage season, and was nominated for Northwest Conference Men’s Student Athlete of the Week for men’s basketball six times. 

The Bruins finished 8-17 in 2008-09 and tied for 7th in the conference with Pacific Lutheran, both at 4-12.  The future appears bright for the Bruins, however, as their top five scorers all return, led by Stockner and double digit scoring guards Jack Martin (13.3 ppg) and Evan Atwater (12.3 ppg).

Jason Foster and Justin Lunt of the NWC regular season champion University of Puget Sound Loggers received the biggest prizes of the season, Foster taking home Player of the Year honors and Lunt being named Coach of the Year.