KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Four Missouri State men's soccer players were selected as United Soccer Coaches All-West Region honorees that were voted on by member coaches within the region, the organization announced on Tuesday.
 
Josh Dolling, Kyle Hiebert, and Nicolo Mulatero earned a spot on the first-team ballot while Aadne Bruseth was named to the second team.
 
Dolling (Sr., MF/F, Liverpool, England) received first team recognition for the second consecutive season while garnering his third overall all-region honor with a second-team selection in 2018.  He started 13 matches and logged 1,091 minutes while helping a Bears attack that led the Missouri Valley Conference in goals and assists with 26 in both categories.  He scored his first points of the season after capping MSU's four-goal outing at Evansville on March 30.  His 22 career goals is tied for seventh with Heath Melugin (2008-11) on Missouri State's all-time scoring list.
 
Hiebert (Sr., La Salle, Manitoba, Canada) garnered his fourth All-West region laurel after he added another excellent season to his illustrious four-year career with Missouri State.  He started all 14 matches of the 2021 season to extend his overall streak to 68 consecutive starts in the Bears backline and helped MSU to post six shutouts on the year.  Hiebert was selected as a MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist and was named MVC Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.
 
Mulatero (Jr. Givoletto, Italy) collected his first all-region honor following a stellar junior campaign which culminated with him being named MVC Forward of the Year.  He finished as the league leader in points (22), goals (7), assists (8) and game-winning goals (3).  He became the first Missouri State player to total at least seven goals and seven assists in a season since Danny May tallied eight apiece in 2004.  Mulatero recorded his first career brace against Drake on March 22 before adding another two-goal outing against Evansville on March 30.
 
Joining Mulatero as a first-time honoree, Bruseth (Jr., Batnfjordsøra, Norway) earned a second-team nod after racking up four goals and five assists to his 2021 ledger.  He finished third in the MVC in points with 13 while his five assists tied ranked second.  Bruseth had a three-game scoring stretch from March 26 – April 3 and turned in a three-assist performance against Drake on March 22.
 
Fellow MVC players to join the Bears contingent on the all-region teams were Loyola's Billy Hency (first team) and Evansville' Pablo Guillen (second team).
 
Missouri State finished the 2021 spring season with a 12-2-0 record and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.  The Bears claimed both the MVC regular-season and tournament championship en route to their fifth trip to the NCAA Tournament.