DAVENPORT, Iowa – The MVC regular season champion Drake women's basketball team garnered multiple individual honors at tonight's MVC Awards Banquet. The Bulldogs were represented by a trio of all-conference selections Grace Berg, the Defensive Player of the Year Anna Miller, and the Player of the Year Katie Dinnebier. Suzie Glazer Burt Head Coach Allison Pohlman was also honored as the league's Coach of the Year.
 
Katie Dinnebier is the ninth player in Drake history to win the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Award and the first since current staff member Becca Hittner won three in a row from 2018-20.
 
Dinnebier is one of just two players in NCAA Division I this season to average at least 18.0 points, 6.5 assists, and 2.5 steals per game. Her exact scoring average of 18.1 ppg leads Drake this season and her 7.0 apg pace the entire MVC. Dinnebier, a member of the MVC All-Defensive Team, is also a stellar stopper for the Bulldogs with a league-high 77 total steals. She has scored double-digits 29 times this season with two 30-point performances. Earlier this season, Katie logged the second triple-double in program history in a win at UNI with 19 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists.
 
Dinnebier joined fellow Waukee native and Drake men's basketball star Tucker DeVries as winners of the respective 2023-24 MVC women's and men's basketball Player of the Year trophies. It marks just the third time in Missouri Valley Conference history that one school has produced both players of the year in the same season and first time 2002-03.
 
Dinnebier ranks within the top 10 nationally in multiple statistical categories including third in assists per game, fourth in total assists, and eighth in made free throws. She is also one of five national finalists for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Award.
 
For the second year in a row, junior forward Anna Miller earned another top honor in The Valley, the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Miller has been one of the premier defenders in the entire country this season. She leads the MVC and ranks eighth in NCAA Division I with 83 total blocks and 11th with 2.7 rejections per game. Miller recently became the 37th player in Drake history to score over 1,000 career points, joining teammates Katie Dinnebier and Grace Berg as active Drake players to achieve that feat.
 
Miller has also been a rebounding machine for the Bulldogs with 9.9 rebounds per game, the highest average in the conference. Her 307 total rebounds and 223 defensive rebounds also top the MVC stat sheet. Miller is just the second player in Drake women's basketball history to win the MVC Defensive Player of the Year Award, joining another two-time winner Sammie Bachrodt (2018-29).
 
Graduate forward Grace Berg was also recognized on the All-MVC First Team selection to her storied Bulldog career. Berg also finished third in the MVC Player of the Year voting. The Indianola native has played in and started all 31 games for Drake this season. She scored a career high 30 points in an up-tempo home win over Murray State (1/21). She has been towards the top of the MVC stat sheet this season with 17.0 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game. A top 13 scorer in Drake history, Berg adds this honor to two previous First Team nods and an All-MVC Third Team listing last season.
 
Suzie Glazer Burt Head Coach Allison Pohlman becomes the fourth coach in Drake women's basketball history to collect the Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year award since Jennie Baranczyk won back-to-back honors in 2017 and 2018.
 
Pohlman is in her third season at the helm of the Bulldog women's hoops program after a lengthy stint as an assistant. She has led Drake to a 68-29 record in her three seasons while guiding the Bulldogs to a 2023 MVC Tournament title, an automatic berth to the 2023 NCAA Tournament, and a 2023-24 MVC regular season championship. Pohlman made history this season as the Bulldogs earned 20 wins for the third year in a row marking the first time in program history that a head coach has reached that mark in their first three seasons.
 
The entire list of All-MVC teams is included below.
 
 

First Team	Yr.	Pos.	Hometown
Grace Berg, Drake	Gr.	F	Indianola (Iowa) Indianola High
Grace Boffeli, UNI	Jr.	F	Eldridge (Iowa) North Scott High
Katie Dinnebier, Drake****	Jr.	G	West Des Moines (Iowa) Waukee High
Maya McDermott, UNI	Jr.	G	Johnston (Iowa) Johnston High
Laniah Randle, S. Illinois*	Jr.	F	Wichita (Kan.) Wichita Heights High
Katelyn Young, Murray St.	Sr.	F	Oakwood (Ill.) Oakwood High
Second Team
Leah Earnest, Valparaiso	Sr.	G/F	Stevens Point (Wis.) SPASH
Anna Miller, Drake	Jr.	F	Rochester (Minn.) Rochester Mayo High
Tessa Miller, Belmont	Jr.	F	Crossville (Tenn.) Stone Memorial High
Lacy Stokes, Missouri State	Jr.	G	Mount Vernon (Mo.) Mount Vernon High
Deanna Wilson, Illinois State	Gr.	F	St. Louis (Mo.) Cardinal Ritter College Prep
Third Team
Jailyn Banks, Belmont	Fr.	G	Spring Hill (Tenn.) Middle Tennessee Christian
Kendal Cheesman, Belmont	Jr.	F	Tampa (Fla.) H.B. Plant High
Tuti Jones, Belmont	R-Jr.	G	Troy (Ala.) Charles Henderson High
Halli Poock, Bradley	Fr.	G	Waterloo (Iowa) Waterloo West
Kennedy Taylor, Missouri St.	Jr.	F	Shawnee Mission (Kan.) Shawnee Mission NW
Makiyah Williams, UIC	Jr.	G/F	Chicago (Ill.) Trinity High
All-Newcomer Team
Emily La Chapell, Belmont	So.	G	Appleton (Wis.) Appleton East High
Ava Learn, Murray State	Jr.	G/F	Pleasant Valley (N.Y.) Our Lady of the Lourdes
Keimari Rimmer, UIC	Gr.	F	Chicago (Ill.) Proviso East High
Lacy Stokes, Missouri St.^	Jr.	G	Mount Vernon (Mo.) Mount Vernon High
Makiyah Williams, UIC	Jr.	G/F	Chicago (Ill.) Trinity High
All-Freshman Team
Jailyn Banks, Belmont***	Fr.	G	Spring Hill (Tenn.) Middle Tennessee Christian
Shannon Dowell, Illinois St.	Fr.	G	O'Fallon (Ill.) O'Fallon Township High
Haven Ford, Murray State	Fr.	G	Morehead (Ky.) Rowan County High
Halli Poock, Bradley	Fr.	G	Waterloo (Iowa) Waterloo West
Nevaeh Thomas, Evansville	Fr.	F	Kenosha (Wis.) Bradford High
All-Defensive Team
Kate Bullman, Illinois State	Sr.	F	Grayslake (Ill.) Grayslake Central High
Katie Dinnebier, Drake	Jr.	G	West Des Moines (Iowa) Waukee High
Tuti Jones, Belmont	R-Jr.	G	Troy (Ala.) Charles Henderson High
Anna Miller, Drake**	Jr.	F	Rochester (Minn.) Rochester Mayo High
Lacy Stokes, Missouri State	Jr.	G	Mount Vernon (Mo.) Mount Vernon High

 
^Newcomer of the Year
*Most Improved Player
**Defensive Player of the Year
***Freshman of the Year
****Jackie Stiles Player of the Year