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UTAH BASKETBALL PLAYER PROFILES UTAH MEN’S BASKETBALL MEET THE UTES Player Profiles First team all-CIF Division 1-A and second team all- college prospects from the 2009-10 class … 51 county in 2005-06 ... league MVP, leading El Toro excelled in the WJCAC, considered one of the David Foster High School to the championship ... honorable top junior college athletic conferences in the mention 2005-06 “Best in the West” by the Long country, producing three of the last four NJCAA Center Beach Press-Telegram ... team advanced to the national champions. 7-3, 243, Sr. CIF playoff finals in 2005 with a 24-5 record and 3VL the quarterfinals in ‘06 ... averaged 17 points, High School Lake Forest, Calif. 12 rebounds and five blocked shots per game Averaged 25.6 points, 6.0 assists and 5.0 El Toro HS as a senior ... eight points, nine boards and four rebounds per game his senior year at Wadleigh rejections per game his junior season ... coached High School … named All-League and All-City … by Todd Dixon ... also played high school volleyball voted Manhattan Player of the Year … earned Junior (2010-11) ... Class Act Award recipient. MVP honors at several high school tournaments Earned second straight Mountain West … led Wadleigh to the state quarterfinals. Conference All-Defensive Team selection ... Personal became Utah’s career record holder in blocked David Lee Foster married the former Britta Personal shots with 219 ... broke Luke Nevill’s previous Nordstrom in May of 2010 ... David is the son Josh Watkins is the son of Lisa Watkins … born career record of 205 (2005-09) on Feb. 22 with of Lee and Julie Foster ... born April 6, 1988 July 7, 1989 … was raised by his mother and three blocks against TCU ... his 99 rejections were in Salt Lake City ... one of nine children in his grandmother … has two brothers, Nathaniel the second-most ever in a single season by a Ute, family, which includes two sets of twins ... father Watkins and Charles Brown … also has a son, trailing only his own school record of 115 set in graduated from Utah with an engineering degree Bryce Long … began playing basketball at age 4 … 2009-10 ... finished the season ranked No. 1 in ... mother graduated from BYU ... served a two- won the Jackie Joyner Athlete of the Year award the MWC and No. 6 in the NCAA with 3.2 blocks year LDS mission in North Carolina from 2007-09 at age 10 ... majoring in sociology. per game ... moved up to second place on the ... majoring in speech communications, with an MWC’s career blocks list ... played in all 31 games, emphasis on teaching and training. making 18 starts ... averaged 2.9 points and 5.2 1 rebounds per game ... pulled down a career- Glen Dean high 13 rebounds against Wyoming ... recorded 15 career-best three assists against No. 6 San Diego Guard State ... made career-high two steals vs. Boise Josh “Jiggy” Watkins 5-10, 175, Jr. State ... scored a season-high seven points twice Guard TR - Eastern Washington ... finished the season ranked eighth in the MWC 5-11, 211, Sr. Seattle, Wash. in rebounding (league games only) and 11th 1VL Roosevelt HS including all games ... finished the year shooting New York, N.Y. 48.8% from the field (39-of-80) ... earned his Wadleigh HS second consecutive Academic All-MWC honor. Dean transferred to Utah from Eastern Washington in the offseason and will sit out the Sophomore (2009-10) Junior (2010-11) 2011-12 season due to NCAA transfer rules. Named the MWC Defensive Player of the Year Earned Honorable Mention All-Mountain West and led the MWC All-Defensive team ... finished Conference ... finished second on the team in Prior to Utah: the year ranked No. 4 in the NCAA and No. 1 scoring at 14.5 points per game ... led the Utes Was a second-team All-Big Sky Conference in the MWC with 4.0 blocked shots per game in assists with 3.5 per game and chipped in 2.5 selection in 2010-11 after earning Freshman ... shattered Utah’s single-game and single- rebounds as well ... was the most fouled Ute, of the Year honors in 2009-10 ... led Eastern season blocks records ... career-high 10 blocks leading the team with 172 free throw attempts Washington in scoring and assists both years ... at Weber State single-handedly tied the previous (120-172) ... shot 42% from the field for the year as a sophomore, averaged 13.3 points per game team record for blocks in a game ... 115 blocked (155-369) ... appeared in all 31 games, making and 4.2 assists per contest ... was the team’s shots for the season surpassed the previous 30 starts ... ranked among the top 10 players in top 3-point shooter, knocking down 41.6% from record by 23 swats (92 held by Nevill, 2008-09) the MWC in scoring and assists ... scored double beyond the arc (41-113) and finishing third on ... also set a new MWC record for blocks by a digits in 24 of 31 games, going over 20 points the squad from the free throw line at 77.8% sophomore, topping the previous mark of 66 ... five times ... logged a career-high 24 points (77-99) ... also chipped in 2.7 rebounds per became just the third player in MWC history to against No. 6 San Diego State ... posted a career- game, while adding 20 steals ... as a freshman, surpass 100 blocks in a season ... had a streak best nine assists on the road at Colorado State, averaged 12.2 points per game, 4.4 assists per of 25 consecutive games with a block ... scored coming one helper shy of his first double-double contest and was the team’s third-best 3-point a career-high 13 points at UNLV ... pulled down after also racking up 22 points ... led the team in shooter at 42.9% (48-112) ... also added 2.6 a season-best 10 rebounds against Idaho State scoring nine times. rebounds per game and made 26 steals ... two- ... shot over 50% from the field on the year (62- time Big Sky All-Academic Team honoree. of-123) ... averaged 21.7 minutes per game after Prior to Utah: returning to the team following a two-year LDS Led Howard College to the 2010 NJCAA Div. I High School mission ... earned Academic All-MWC honors. National Championship and was named MVP of Graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2008 the tournament … named a first-team All-Region and spent one year at the Laurinburg Institute Freshman (2006-07) V and first-team All-Western Junior College (N.C.) ... averaged more than 14 points per game Played in 20 games, averaging 4.7 minutes ... Athletic Conference selection in 2009-10 … as a three-year starter at Roosevelt, scoring scored 19 points and blocked five shots ... set started all 34 games, averaging 16 points per 954 points ... first-team All-Kingco 4A League season-highs in The Pit at New Mexico in points contest to rank second on the team … led the honors as a senior, second-team accolades as a (8), rebounds (9), field goals (3), free throws (2) Hawks with 5.0 assists per game … thought by junior and honorable mention as a sophomore and minutes (17). many pundits to be one of the top five junior ... averaged 15.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 High School 26 2011-12 MEDIA GUIDE MEET THE UTES UTAH MEN’S BASKETBALL Player Profiles assists and shot 53% from the floor as a senior. Community College in the offseason. He will be Freshman (2008-09) eligible to play immediately. Redshirted. Personal Glen Dean is the son of Glen Dean and Judi Prior to Utah High School Sinclair ... born Oct. 20, 1989, in Seattle ... First-team All-Region 11 selection as a Led Klein Forest High School to a 33-4 record majoring in exercise and sport science and is in sophomore at Indian Hills ... started 31 of 33 his senior year ... named the district MVP and the pre-med program. games on a team that went 23-10 and tied for team MVP ... 2008 Texas Basketball Coaches’ the conference regular-season title ... team’s Association All-Star ... selected first-team all- leading scorer at 9.6 points per game and second state, all-district, and all-Houston ... nominated 2 in rebounding with 5.4 boards per contest ... as a High School All-American ... team captain ... Aaron Dotson led the team in steals (50) and blocked shots averaged 17 points and seven assists as a senior. (29) ... named second-team all-conference as a Guard/Wing freshman after leading the team with 11.9 points Personal 6-4, 204, Jr. per game ... second in rebounding at 4.2 boards Chris Hines is the son of Robert and Wanda TR - LSU per game and 3-pointers made (44), while scoring Hines ... born Jan. 3, 1990 ... majoring in mass Seattle, Wash. double figures in 24 of 33 games ... started all 33 communication. Rainier HS games on a 25-8 team that won the conference championship outright. 43 Dotson transferred to Utah from LSU in the High School Cedric Martin offseason and will sit out the 2011-12 season due Graduated from Broome High School in 2009 to NCAA transfer rules. ... named all-conference as a senior, leading Wing Broome in scoring and rebounding ... earned 6-4, 200, Jr. Prior to Utah several Player of the Week honors in basketball TR - Lee College As a sophomore at LSU in 2010-11, played in all and football ..