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Men's Basketball, 2004-06
A native of Seattle, Washington, Tyrone Shephard was the 2005-06 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year in a season where he helped Fort Hays State to a 27-4 overall record. The team reached the No. 1 ranking in the NABC Top 25 Poll and made it to the semifinals of the NCAA Central Regional. He was also an All-America Third Team selection that year by Daktronics and Division II Bulletin. He helped the Tigers go near-perfect in conference play with an 18-1 record in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and had an 18-game win streak that season. Shephard was a two-time All-RMAC selection, earning second-team honors in his junior year of 2004-05 before the first-team and conference player of the year honors in 2005-06. Shephard led a very balanced team in scoring his senior year at 13.8 points per game, shooting 47.3 percent overall, 43.3 percent from beyond the 3-point line, and 78 percent at the free-throw line, reaching double figures in scoring 20 times that season with 32 being his top scoring mark of the season. Shephard also led the Tigers in scoring his junior year at 13.9 points per game and scored a total of 816 points over his two years at FHSU. Shephard went on to play professionally in Mexico for two years following his time at FHSU.