KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced today that BYU’s Yoeli Childs and TJ Haws have been named to the 2018-19 NABC Division I All-District 9 Team. Childs earned first-team honors while Haws was named to the second team.
The NABC All-District teams are selected and voted on by NCAA Division I member coaches. Childs is a repeat first-team honoree while this is Haws’ first all-district nod.
In addition to honors from the NABC, Childs earned a spot on the United States Basketball Writers Association All-District First Team. He was also an All-West Coast Conference First Team selection.
Childs posted averages of 21.2 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0 block per game in 2018-19. He had season highs of 31 points, 16 rebounds, six assists, four blocks and five steals.
A junior from South Jordan, Utah, Childs has posted 17 double-doubles and 18 20-point games. He had a string of three-straight 31-point games against Weber State, Utah State and Utah, becoming the first Cougar to record such a streak since Jimmer Fredette in 2011.
Haws, from Alpine, Utah, averaged 17.8 points, 5.1 assists and 1.2 steals while hitting 57 3-pointers and shooting 86.8 percent from the free-throw line. He scored 20-plus points 12 times and dished out five-plus assists 18 times. The junior guard had season highs of 35 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and three steals.
In addition to earning all-district honors from the NABC, Haws was named to the All-WCC Second Team, the WCC All-Academic Team and the Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 First Team.
Visit NABC.org for the complete NABC All-District Teams.
NABC All-District 9
First Team
Rui Hachimura, Gonzaga
Brandon Clarke, Gonzaga
Yoeli Childs, BYU
Jordan Ford, St. Mary’s
Isaiah Pineiro, San Diego
Second Team
Frankie Ferrari, San Francisco
Kyle Allman, Jr., CSU Fullerton
Zach Norvell, Jr., Gonzaga
Lamine Diane, CSU Fullerton
TJ Haws, BYU