Three Dixie State Stars Are Named As Pac-West Scholar Athletes of the Year

Three Dixie State Stars Are Named As Pac-West Scholar Athletes of the Year

ST. GEORGE, Utah-In a few weeks, Dixie State’s athletic department officially leaves the Pac-West Conference to join the football program in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

With that said, three Trailblazers athletes have left the Pac-West on the right note, as the conference’s best scholar athlete in their respective sports.

These stars include sophomore men’s golfer Jayce Frampton, senior women’s soccer player Darian Murdock and men’s basketball player Brandon Simister as confirmed by the Pac-West Tuesday.

Frampton, a native of Centerville, Utah and a product of Viewmont High School of Bountiful, earned 2017-18 second-team all-Pac West honors after earning two individual event victories in Hawaii during the fall season. He is the owner of a 3.74 GPA while majoring in finance at Dixie State University.

Murdock has graduated with a 3.98 GPA in nursing and is a native of Herriman, Utah and graduate of Herriman High School. Her stellar senior season was capped off with a second-straight CoSIDA Academic All-America second team selection.

In 2017, she repeated as the Pac-West’s women’s soccer player of the year, earning D2CCA West region player of the year and D2CCA second-team All-American honors.

Murdock ends her four year career with the Trailblazers as the program’s leader in game-winning goals (16) and finished third all-time in goals (42) career points (94), career shots (204) and career shots on goal (104).

Simister, a native of St. George and a graduate of Desert Hills High School, earned CoSIDA second-team academic All-American honors last March and became a three-time CoSIDA academic all-district 8 selection with a 3.91 GPA in biology. He was a first-team all-Pac West and second-team D2CCA all-West region selection this past season after finishing as Dixie State’s leading scorer at 15.1 points per game.