May 29, 2008-Emporia State Lady Hornet basketball player Michelle Stueve has been named the 2008 Ken B. Jones Award winner as the top female student-athlete in the MIAA. She appeared on all 11 ballots and received 26 of a possible 33 points in the voting.

The Olpe, Kan. native was ranked in the top ten nationally in scoring, three-point field goals percentage and made three-pointers. She was a unanimous selection for MVP of the MIAA. She led the league in three-point field goal percentage and was in the top four in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage, free throw percentage and made three-pointers. Her 674 points scored this season are tied with Jurgita Kausaite for the fourth most in ESU history and sixth most in a single season in MIAA history

Stueve ended her career as the leading scorer in MIAA and ESU history with 2,403 points. She is the ESU career record holder in scoring, made three pointers, free throws made and free throw percentage. She ranks second all time in Lady Hornet career rebounding and field goals made, is tenth in blocked shots and 11th in steals.

She is the only Lady Hornet to finish her career with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds, ending with 1,040 boards in 127 games. She is one of only three players in MIAA history to pull off the feat and the first since Central Missouri’s Tammy Wilson in 1989.

In her career, the Lady Hornets went 100-27 with three trips to the Sweet 16, an Elite Eight appearance and an MIAA regular season championship. She was named the MIAA Player of the Week 13 times in her career, including five awards this season.

An excellent student off the court, Stueve was a second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American this year and has been on the MIAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll every year she has been eligible.

ESU’s women have dominated the award over the last 12 years, earning the award five times in that time frame. Including the men, Hornet student-athletes have claimed the award a league record six times.

ESU 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.

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