COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? Drake women's basketball
head coach Amy Stephens was recently named the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference All-Time Top Coach to celebrate the RMAC's 100th anniversary.
Stephens was the head coach at Division II Nebraska-Kearney from 1994-2002.
The top 12
players and best head coach in RMAC women's basketball history were selected by
representatives from the conference's schools that participate in the sport of
women's basketball. The RMAC is the fourth oldest conference in the country,
and the most historic in the western U.S.
A four-time
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Stephens led Nebraska-Kearney
to five RMAC titles while the team averaged nearly 25 victories per season. UNK
earned seven straight trips to the NCAA Tournament and also set an NCAA
Division II record with an 87-game home-court winning streak that lasted from
January of 1995 through November of 2001.
Stephens
was the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) District 7 Coach of the
Year and a finalist for national coach-of-the-year honors in 2000.
"I
have really great memories from coaching at Nebraska-Kearney," Stephens
said. "It was a special time in my life. We had a lot of success, so I'm
very humbled. One of my favorite sayings is great players make great coaches
and I was very fortunate to be at Nebraska-Kearney when we had some phenomenal
players who put Nebraska-Kearney on the map in terms of Division II women's
basketball."
Two student-athletes who played under Stephens, Jessica Kedrowski and Jennifer Warner, were also selected to the RMAC 100th-Anniversary Women's Basketball Team.
As part of
the Centennial Celebration, all-time teams are being selected in 19 RMAC
sports. The RMAC's Centennial Celebration will take place on July 11, 2009 at
the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado
Springs. More information to come in the next few
months. A new all-time team will be recognized each month leading up to the
celebration.
RMAC
Centennial Celebration All-Time Women's Basketball Team:
MVP ? Diana
Lopez,
Regis
Annette Wiles, Fort Hays State
Tonya Stites, Mesa State
Debra Gilbert, Adams
State
Amy Mohr, Fort
Lewis
Jessica Kedrowski, Nebraska-Kearney
Tricia Lukawski, Chadron State
Stephanie Allen, Metro
State
Tina Redmond, Colorado Christian
Pam DeCosta, Mesa
State
Dominique Skeehan, Adams State
Jennifer Warner, Nebraska-Kearney
Coach ? Amy Stephens, Nebraska-Kearney