Jeremy Jones Conference Player of the Year

With two Seward County Saints and their coach leading
the way, the Jayhawk Conference has released their 2011 All-Conference
Teams. Jeremy Jones heads the Jayhawk West 1st Team All-Conference
squad after a season in which he led the league in scoring in conference
games. The sophomore from Chicago seemed as easy of a choice as you
could have made after he finished in the top five of three different
statistical categories while helping the Saints to the 2011 Jayhawk West
Conference Crown. Jones was not a one man show for Seward this season
as he finished 4th in the league in assists at over 4.5 per while taking
high percentage shots throughout the season, shooting under 40% in a
game just twice in 16 conference games. Marky Nolen was the top choice
on the 2nd Team All-Conference list after putting together an unheard of
eight straight double-doubles in a 7-1 stretch through the middle part
of the conference schedule. He posted double digit rebounds in 10 of
Seward’s 16 conference games while doing the dirty work down low for the
Saints at just 6’2. Nolen was the only player in the Jayhawk West this
season to average a double-double in conference games and was one of
only three players in the region to boast that, along with 6’7 Dennis
Tinnon of KCK and 6’8 Titus Rubles of Independence. Bryan Zollinger was
named the West’s Coach of the Year for the second time after leading his
Saints to their second conference title in his four seasons at the helm
for Seward County. The Saints finished a full two games up on the
competition this year in the Jayhawk West standings and have wins this
season over the current #1 team in the country in Missouri State-West
Plains as well as former #1 Hutchinson. (Roy Allen)