DENVER, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior women's basketball player Alisha Little (Aurora, Colo./University of Northern Colorado) has been selected as Colorado's 2024 Collegiate Women's Athlete of the Year by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame as announced by the organization on Thursday.
 
Little will be honored at the 60th Annual Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Banquet set for April 9 at the Hilton Denver City Center (1701 California St.).
 
Following voting early this week, the Selection Committee named Little as the second women's CSU Pueblo student-athlete to be honored as the Women's Collegiate Athlete of the Year by the Denver-based group that is located at Empower Field at Mile High.
 
In addition to Little, former women's track and cross country student-athlete Yasmine Hernandez was named the Women's Collegiate Athlete of the Year in 2022, while former football player Ross Dausin and former men's track and field runner Thomas Staines were named the Male Collegiate Athletes of the Year in 2012 and 2019 respectively.
 
Little earns her Women's Collegiate Athlete of the Year honor after being named an All-American, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year and the all-time leading shot blocker in both the state of Colorado and CSU Pueblo.
 
During the 2023-24 season, Little was one of the top women's basketball players in NCAA Division II as she led the state of Colorado in blocked shots (3.6 per game) and was second in the state in both scoring (20.8 points per game) and rebounding (11.9 rebounds per game) and led Division II in double-doubles with 24. She led the RMAC in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots and double-doubles, along with leading Division II in total blocked shots (116) and blocked shots per game. During the 2023-24 season, she earned an RMAC-best seven Defensive Player of the Week honors and nine total Player of the Week accolades as she earned Offensive Player of the Week honors twice.
 
The Aurora, Colo., native and Grandview High School graduate set single season school records for scoring (664 points), rebounding (381 boards), field goals made (251), scoring average (20.8) and blocked shots (116 blocks) and was one of two Division II women's basketball players with 100 or more blocked shots and the only Division II women's basketball player to score over 600 points, pull down 300 rebounds and block 100 shots. She ended the 2023-24 campaign with 10 double-doubles over her last 11 games and was named to the RMAC All-Tournament Team after helping the eighth-seeded ThunderWolves advance to the tournament semifinal round where they fell 58-54 to No. 4 seeded UCCS. The Pack opened the tournament with a 66-57 upset of top-seeded Colorado Mesa on its home court in the quarterfinals. On the season, along with begin a First-Team All-RMAC selection and the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year, Little was named a D2CCA Second-Team All-American, a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American, a First-Team All-Colorado Team selection and was the NCAA Division II national statistical champion in both double-doubles (24) and blocked shots per game (3.62). 
 
"Alisha has established herself as one of the top women's basketball players in NCAA Division II and also in Pack Athletics history," said CSU Pueblo Vice President for Athletics and Strategic Partnerships Dr. Paul Plinske. "The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame is the most prestigious sports organization in our state and we are grateful that she is being recognized as the Female College Athlete of the Year. Congratulations to Alisha on a well-deserved honor."
 
Through the end of the 2024 calendar year this season, Little had played in 11 games and ended the 2024 calendar year averaging 22.9 points, 9.9 rebounds and 3.5 blocked shots per game and had recorded double-doubles in eight of the Pack's 11 games. She earned both the RMAC Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week honors twice and was also named the WBCA/D2CIDA National Player of the Week on Dec. 3 and earned RMAC Offensive Player of the Week honors on Dec. 16. In addition, she ended the 2024 calendar year as the No. 4 scorer in the state of Colorado history with 2,150 points and third in state history in rebounding with 1,159 rebounds and is the state's all-time leader in blocked shots with 358 and is currently second in state history in scoring (2,236), third in state history in rebounding (1,201) and the state's all-time leader in blocked shots (377). She had recorded three games with 30 or more points, including a career-high tying 35 points against Haskell, which is sixth on the school's single-game chart. During the 2024 calendar year, Little, whose dad, Andra Davis, played one season for the Denver Broncos and 10 years overall in the NFL, scored 678 points, pulled down 342 rebounds, blocked 109 shots, and shot 51.7 percent from the field, 34 percent from the 3-point line and 67 percent from the free throw line, and recorded 23 double-doubles. She averaged 22.6 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.6 blocks per game in 30 games and recorded 23 double-doubles in those 30 games.
 
Following voting that concluded on Tuesday, the Selection Committee of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame also named Denver Nuggets forward Nikola Jokic and Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon were named the Professional Athletes of the Year, while Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter (football) of the University of Colorado was named the men's Collegiate Athlete of the Year and Scottie Vines of De Beque (track and field) and Chloe Elarton (volleyball) of Valor Christian were named the High School Athletes of the Year. The Colorado Christian men's golf team, which won the 2024 NCAA Division II National Championship, was named the King of the Hill recipient, while Jeff Clark, a competitor and leader at Special Olympics Colorado, will be the recipient of the Hall of Fame's Athlete with Disabilities Award.
 
Tickets for the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Banquet at $250 each and sponsor tables start at $3,000. For additional ticket and table information, please contact the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (www.coloradosports.org) or call them at (720) 258-3535. The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame & Museum is located at Gate on the west side of Empower Field at Mile High at 1701 Bryant Street in Denver, Colo.
 
Since its inception in 1965, the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame has inducted 286 individuals. The first class of inductees featured Earl "Dutch" Clark, Jack Dempsey and former Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White. The 2025 Hall of Fame inductees inductees are women's World Cup alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, former Colorado Rockies baseball player Troy Tulowitzki, former college and NBA basketball coach Larry Brown, former Denver Broncos linebacker Simon Fletcher, former Negro League baseball player Theodore "Bubbles" Anderson and former University of Colorado women's basketball standout Lisa Van Goor.