In celebration of 25 years of women’s sports in the Missouri Valley Conference and the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the league announced Tuesday that Missouri State’s Melody Howard, Kari Koch and Jackie Stiles were among the 10 athletes selected to the Valley’s 25-Year Anniversary Team in women’s basketball. Stiles was the top choice in the balloting.
Missouri State is off to a 2-0 Missouri Valley Conference start, and hosts a pair of 2-0 MVC clubs this weekend at JQH Arena in a pair of key early-season contests against the other two preseason top-three Valley teams.
Missouri State recognized three of the school’s top female student-athletes Monday (June 19) with the announcement of its final year-end institutional honors for 2016-17.