Ottumwa -- Indian Hills placed sophomores Chris Childs and Tyon Grant-Foster on the National Junior College Athletic Association All-American basketball teams. Childs was named to the second team and Grant-Foster was an honorable mention choice.
Childs capped his lone season at IHCC with the All-American recognition after a year in which he set the school single-season record for 3-pointers with 107. The transfer from St. Joseph's (Conn.) and native of Bronx, N.Y. averaged 14.2 ppg, second on the squad, shot over 45 percent from 3-point range and better than 88 percent at the free throw line. He made at least one three in 31 of the 32 games he played this season and also averaged 2.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. Childs has committed to sign with Bryant University in Rhode Island this month.
Grant-Foster, from Kansas City, Kans. led the 30-3 record Warriors in scoring with his 16.4 average. He pulled down 6.5 rebounds per contest and led the team with 48 blocks while shooting 48 percent from the field and 72 percent from the foul line. He improved on his freshman numbers of 8.2 ppg and 4.4 rpg. The Warriors were 57-10 in his two seasons at IHCC. Grant-Foster signed a letter-of-intent at Kansas in the early signing period last November.
Childs and Grant-Foster earlier were first-team all-region picks.
They are the 29th and 30th Indian Hills players to earn All-American honors and this is the 9th year in a row that Indian Hills has had at least one basketball All-American.
Indian Hills joins Georgia Highlands and Pearl River as the only NJCAA Division I schools with two All-American selections.