ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Drake junior Anna Miller has been rewarded for a stellar year in the classroom and on the court as the recipient of the 2023-24 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball State Farm Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
 
Miller highlights the six-person Scholar-Athlete First Team and is one of four Bulldogs included between First, Second, and Third Teams plus honorable mention.
 
The Rochester, Minn. native owns a 4.0 grade point average as a health sciences major at Drake. She is among the top overall players in The Valley with 13.2 points and a league high 9.9 rebounds per game. Miller is second in the conference with a .543 field goal percentage and has been the premier rim protector with 83 total blocks and 2.7 per game.
 
Other Bulldogs included on the MVC Scholar-Athlete Teams include Katie Dinnebier (Second Team), Courtney Becker (Third Team), and Anna Brown (Honorable Mention).
 
The criteria for nomination to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting matches the College Sports Communicators standards. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and must be enrolled at their school as an undergraduate of graduate student. The full list of this year's Scholar-Athlete student-athletes is listed below.
 
First Team         
Kiley Bess, Sr., Indiana State
Grace Boffeli, Jr., UNI
Tuti Jones, Sr./RJr., Belmont
Anna Miller, Jr., Drake
Tessa Miller, Jr., Belmont
Barbora Tomancova, Gr., Evansville
 
Second Team
Olivia Brown, 5Yr., Valparaiso
Kate Bullman, Sr., Illinois State
Katie Dinnebier, Jr., Drake
Ella Sawyer, 5Yr., Indiana State
Katelyn Young, Sr., Murray State
 
Third Team
Courtney Becker, Sr., Drake
Paige Clubb, Jr., Southern Illinois
Leah Earnest, Sr., Valparaiso
Cailyn Morgan, Sr., UNI
Callie Ziebell, Jr., Bradley
 
Honorable Mention
Anna Brown, Gr., Drake
Ryley Goebel, So., UNI
Kayba Laube, Jr., UNI
Adrianna Katcher, Sr., Southern Illinois
Maya McDermott, Jr., UNI
Taryn Wharton, So., UNI