A Fitting End
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:15 p.m., May 30, 2008
Updated 02:15 p.m., May 30, 2008
Emporia State women’s basketball player Michelle Stueve took the MIAA’s top female honor on Thursday, as she was selected as the 2008 Ken B. Jones Award winner as the top female student-athlete in the conference.
Stueve appeared on all 11 ballots and received 26 of a possible 33 points. She is the first ESU athlete to win the award since football player Tyler Paul won the men’s honor in 2003-04.
Stueve ended her career as the MIAA’s leading scorer with 2,403 points. She is ESU’s career leader in scoring, 3-pointers, free throws made and free-throw percentage.
The senior also ranks second all-time at ESU in rebounding and field goals made.
Stueve is the only Lady Hornet to finish her career with at least 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Only three MIAA players have accomplished that feat, and the last to do it was Central Missouri’s Tammy Wilson in 1989.
ESU was 100-27 during Stueve’s four years with three Sweet 16 appearances.
Stueve also is a good student, posting a 3.58 grade-point average in biology.
She earned second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors this season and has been on the MIAA Commissioner’s honor roll every year she has been eligible.
ESU’s women have earned the Ken B. Jones award five times in the last 12 years. Combined with Paul, ESU’s six total Ken B. Jones winners are the most of any MIAA school.
ESU baseball player Brian Majors also made the finalist cut for the men’s Ken B. Jones Award. Southwest Baptist football player Nick Smart won the year-end honor Thursday.
It was the second straight year that ESU had a male and female representative in the final three of the Ken B. Jones voting.
ESU’s Ken B. Jones Award Winners
Women
1996-97 Deandra Doubrava, Volleyball/Track & Field*
1998-99 Deandra Doubrava, Track & Field
2000-01 Emily Bloss, Basketball
2002-03 Sarah Wuertz, Track & Field
2007-08 Michelle Stueve, Basketball
Men
2003-04 Tyler Paul, Football
*Won award as junior and redshirted in 1997-98.
beth (anonymous) says...
Congratulations Michelle!
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