MONUMENT, Colo. – Senior forward Isiah Small will join seven other NCAA basketball players on the Athletes in Action (AIA) team for a 10-day competitive tour in North Macedonia from Wednesday, June 30- Thursday, July 10.
 
The team will depart June 30 from DFW Airport in Dallas to fly to Chicago, then onto Vienna, Austria, and Skopje, Macedonia. The team returns on July 10. The AIA team will play four games vs. U20 National teams from the region. The goals of this tour are to provide a rich cross-cultural experience for each team member, an opportunity to compete internationally, and for team members to grow in their personal faith. Athletes In Action focuses on developing athletes and coaches as leaders of influence on and off the field. The Athletes in Action Basketball website is www.aiabasketball.com.
 
The coach for the team is Bill Peterson, assistant coach at Baylor University. Bill has coached multiple Athletes in Action tours in his career. The assistant coach is Ty Beard, Director of Video Operations at Baylor. The director of the tour is Mike Sigfrids of AIA Basketball. Mike has served with Athletes in Action for 48 years and has conducted over 30 international basketball tours since 1987. Athletes in Action is a Christian sports organization founded in 1966.  
 
Small, who started in 24 of 25 games for the Bobcats last season averaged 10.9 points and led the team with 5.8 rebounds (No. 16 in the Sun Belt) and 1.2 blocks per game (No. 6 in the Sun Belt). Small was a pivotal piece in the Bobcats securing its first Sun Belt Conference Championship title since joining the league in 2013-14. He recorded two double-doubles last season and had three 20-point performances, including a career-high 24 points at Louisiana (Jan. 1, 2021).
The full roster for the AIA team is below:
Dale Bonner, Jr. – Fairmont State University
Densier Carnes – John Brown University
Kendal Coleman – Northwestern State University
LJ Cryer – Baylor University
Austin Garner – Dallas Baptist University
Quenton Jackson – Texas A&M University
Zach Loveday – Baylor University
Isiah Small – Texas State University
 
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