LAKE CHARLES – A player like McNeese Cowboy senior forward Christian Shumate doesn't come along too often. Some can say he's a once in a generational-type talent for a program.
 
Monday night at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the Chicago native, who is in his fourth season as a Cowboy, did something no other player in the 82-year history of the program has ever done – become the first to ever record 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 steals, and 100 blocked shots in a career.
 
Shumate arrived on the McNeese campus prior to the 2021-22 season after spending the previous year at Tulsa. In his four years as a Cowboy, he's wowed and excited Poke Nation with his signature "Shu Slams" while helping lead a program to one of its best seasons ever and having the team in line for a second straight season to remember.
 
During that game at Corpus Christi on Monday night, a 74-73 win to keep McNeese unbeaten in Southland Conference play, and the place where Shumate's putback with under one second to play was one of the more thrilling endings to a game in quite some time, Shumate reached the 1,000 career rebounds milestone in his McNeese career when just two days prior at UTRGV, pulled down his 1,000^th rebound in his entire college playing career.
 
Heading into Saturday's game at Nicholls, Shumate is ranked fourth all-time in the McNeese record book with 1,001 rebounds, needing 25 more to tie him with David Lawrence for third all-time. His 1,546 career points scored are the 13^th-most in school history. Adding to his incredible career numbers, he's making 54.8 percent of his shots which rank as the third-best all-time.
 
He's dished out 114 assists, 129 blocked shots and 101 steals in his career, ranking ninth in blocked shots in the school record book and needing one steal to move into 10^th all-time.
 
Throughout Shumate's career at McNeese, he's set a school record for most double-doubles with 37, a number that is the third-highest total in Southland Conference history. He's started in 96 of his 122 games played, and currently has a streak of 76-consecutive games started. He's scored 10 or more points 85 times and pulled down 10 or more rebounds 45 times. Seventeen times he's scored 20 or more points and 30 or more two times. And he's played a total of 3,475 minutes, an average of 28.5 per game.
 
Shu Slams, rebounds, dimes and swipes. There's nothing this generational talent can't do on the basketball court and now he'll continue to work at getting the Cowboys to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season and perhaps their first-ever NCAA tourney win.