I'm currently in a $2 tourney on Stars. I'm in 35 place out of 422 with a stack of about 9K. Average stack is 5K and biggest at 22K
How shoud I play at this point and later to give myself the best chance to CASH???
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Without more info all I can say is:

Don't mess with the big stacks, they can bust you. Bully the small stacks and steal in position.