ATLANTA - For the second-straight year, Drake University women's basketball senior Becca Hittner earned Women's Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division I All-America honorable mention honors, the WBCA announced Thursday, April 2. Hittner is the first Drake player to earn multiple WBCA All-America honors.
 
This past season, Hittner was named the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for the third consecutive year becoming just the third MVC player to win the top award three times.
 
Hittner led the Valley in scoring for the third-straight season averaging 18.9 points per game in 2019-20. Her free throws made (160), three-point total (70) and three-point percentage of 41.2 were tops in the MVC. Hittner's shooting percentage of 45.4 ranked fourth while her career-high rebounding average of 6.4 per game was ninth. She upped her numbers in Valley play, averaging a league-best 21.1 points per game to go with 7.2 rebounds.
 
She recorded a career-high six double-doubles, scored in double figures in 28-of-30 games and tallied a league-leading three 30-plus and 12 20-plus scoring performances this year.
 
Hittner's career totals in several statistical categories rank among the all-time leaders in Drake and MVC history. She scored 2,133 career points, which ranks sixth at Drake and seventh in the MVC. Hittner's school-record 43.4 career three-point percentage is seventh in conference history and her 258 career three-pointers is second in school history and T-11^th all-time in the Valley.
 
In addition to being named MVC Player of the Year for the third-straight season, Hittner collected several league and national honors in recognition for her outstanding final season as a Bulldog. She was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team and to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team. In addition, she was named to the All-MVC First Team for the fourth-straight season. Hittner is just the eighth MVC player and fourth Drake player to be picked to the All-MVC First Team four times.