Bonneau Earns Daktronics, Inc. First Team All-America Honors
EDINBORO, Pa. (March 21, 2012) – Senior guard
Stefan Bonneau (Middletown, N.Y.) was voted to the Daktronics, Inc. All-America First Team by the nation's athletic communications directors, it was announced today.
Bonneau concluded a brilliant two-year career for the Pioneers after transferring from Orange County Community College. He was the East Coast Conference Player of the Year as a junior and senior and led C.W. Post to a 23-6 finish and a berth in the East Regional in 2011-12. He was previously named the Daktronics East Region Player of the Year and has also been named to the NABC All-East Region Team.
The 5'10” senior ranks in the top ten in scoring in Division II this season at 21.7 ppg., adding 3.9 rpg. and 3.3 assists per game. He shot 42.9 percent from the floor (217 of 506), made 79 of 208 three-pointers (38.0 pct.), and was 116 of 147 at the free throw line (78.9 pct.). In two seasons Bonneau accumulated 1,196 points, good for 14th in career scoring.
The Daktronics' first team features five seniors, and 13 of the 15 players honored as 2012 All-Americans are seniors. The other two are juniors. In addition, the Elite Eight is well represented with players from five of the eight teams earning Daktronics All-America honors. They include first team member Josh Magette of Alabama-Huntsville, second-teamer Braydon Hobbs of Bellarmine's, and from the third team – Michael Loyd of Midwestern State, Metropolitan State's Reggue Evans, and Montevallo's D.J. Rivera.
The team is sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition. The team is voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
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There were no repeat selections from the 2011 Daktronics team.