Hazelwood Central High School graduate Bryce Fosterhas been named to the 2013-14 Capital One Academic All-America Division II basketball team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Foster graduated from Central High School in 2009.
Foster, who now attends Missouri University of Science & Technology, is a business and management systems major with a 3.89 GPA. He ranks second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) in scoring, averaging 21.6 points per game, 13th in Division II.
“Since his arrival on campus in the 2009 fall semester, Bryce has exemplified how a true student-athlete should conduct oneself academically, athletically and socially,” said Missouri S&T head coach Jim Glash.
“He has handled successes and failures, on and off the court, with an ever-developing level of maturity. A season-ending injury in the fall of 2012 neither detoured him from continuing to be our team leader nor from accomplishing a straight-A average in the classroom.”
A 6-foot-4 guard/forward from Florissant, Foster ranks second on the Miners in rebounding (7.0 rebounds per game), adding 50 assists, 28 steals and 14 blocked shots. He is shooting 48.2 percent from the floor (162-of-336), including a team-high 56 3-pointers in 163 attempts (34.4 pct.), and has made 117-of-142 free throws (82.4 pct.).
Foster has scored 20 or more points in 14 contests, including a career-high 36 points against Truman State University. Foster has recorded eight double-doubles this year and is one of only eight players in NCAA Division II to record a triple-double this season, which was the first in school history. He has led the Miners in scoring 12 times.
He is the leading active scorer in the GLVC with 1,596 career points, good for fourth place on Missouri S&T’s all-time scoring charts. He also stands second in career games played (109), third in career field goals made (568), and fifth in career 3-pointers made (187).
The son of Greg Foster, the silver medalist in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a world record holder in the hurdles, the younger Foster has enjoyed an illustrious career for the Miners. He led the team in scoring as a freshman and sophomore at 13.0 and 14.9 points per game, respectively. As a junior in 2011-12, he dropped to 10.5 points a game, good for second on the team. A year ago Bryce Foster averaged 13.2 points over the first six games before missing the rest of the season with an injury.
Foster is the fourth Missouri S&T student-athlete to earn the nation’s top academic honor and first from the men’s basketball program. Volleyball player Jennifer Costello earned the award following the 2012 season, while swimmers Jack Pennuto and Bill Gaul were the recipients of the award in 2004 and 2006, respectively.
The Capital One Academic All-American program is a student-athlete recognition program administered by College Sports Information Directors of America. The program selects an honorary sports team composed of the most outstanding student athletes of a specific season for positions in various sports, who in turn are given the honorific “Academic All-American.”
“In his senior season, Bryce has continued to provide our younger players with an almost perfect example of how to work for successes, both academically and athletically,” said Coach Glash.
“Most importantly, his determination to meet and succeed all academic obligations at Missouri S&T has allowed him to set himself up to be very successful in his future professional endeavors.
