2017-18 FORT HAYS STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 2017-18 SENIOR CLASS DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME Nov. 1 Connecticut (Exhibition) Hartford, Conn. 6:00 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) Nov. 6 Kansas State (Exhibition) Manhattan, Kan. 7:05 p.m. Nov. 10 Upper Iowa Fayette, Iowa 8:00 p.m. Nov. 11 vs. Southwest Minnesota State Fayette, Iowa 2:30 p.m. Nov. 17 UC-COLORADO SPRINGS HAYS 7:00 p.m. Nov. 18 NEWMAN HAYS 4:00 p.m. Nov. 25 STERLING COLLEGE HAYS 5:00 p.m. Nov. 30 MISSOURI SOUTHERN* HAYS 5:30 p.m. Dec. 2 PITTSBURG STATE* HAYS 2:00 p.m. Dec. 6 Washburn* Topeka, Kan. 5:30 p.m. Dec. 9 Emporia State* Emporia, Kan. 1:30 p.m. Dec. 13 TABOR HAYS 7:00 p.m. Dec. 16 Rockhurst Kansas City, Mo. 2:00 p.m. Dec. 19 MIDLAND UNIVERSITY HAYS 7:00 p.m. Dec. 30 BETHANY COLLEGE HAYS 2:00 p.m. Jan. 4 Central Missouri* Warrensburg, Mo. 5:30 p.m. Jan. 6 Southwest Baptist* Bolivar, Mo. 1:30 p.m. Jan. 13 NEBRASKA-KEARNEY* HAYS 2:00 p.m. Jan. 18 MISSOURI WESTERN* HAYS 5:30 p.m. Jan. 20 NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE* HAYS 2:00 p.m. Jan. 25 Lincoln* Jefferson City, Mo. 5:30 p.m. Jan. 27 Lindenwood* St. Charles, Mo. 1:30 p.m. Jan. 31 EMPORIA STATE* HAYS 5:30 p.m. Feb. 3 WASHBURN* HAYS 2:00 p.m. Feb. 8 Northeastern State* Tahlequah, Okla. 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10 Central Oklahoma* Edmond, Okla. 1:30 p.m. Feb. 15 NORTHEASTERN STATE* HAYS 5:30 p.m. Feb. 17 CENTRAL OKLAHOMA* HAYS 2:00 p.m. Feb. 20 Nebraska-Kearney* Kearney, Neb. 5:30 p.m. Feb. 22 SOUTHWEST BAPTIST* HAYS 5:30 p.m. Feb. 26 MIAA Tournament Campus Sites TBA Mar. 1-4 MIAA Tournament Kansas City, Mo. TBA Mar. 9-12 NCAA II Central Regional TBA TBA Mar. 19-23 NCAA II Elite Eight Sioux Falls, S.D. TBA FHSU QUICK FACTS School Fort Hays State University City/Zip Hays, Kansas 67601 Founded 1902 Enrollment 15,100 Affiliation NCAA Division II Conference MIAA Nickname Tigers Colors Black & Gold Interim President Dr. Andy Tompkins Athletic Director Curtis Hammeke Home Court Gross Memorial Coliseum (6,814) Surface Hardwood Ticket Office Phone (785) 628-4050 First Year of Basketball (Seasons) 1969-70 (48 seasons) Overall All-Time Record 804-476 (.628) Years In NCAA Division II Tourn./Last 3/2016 Last NCAA Tournament Opponent Winona State Lost 55-60 (2016 Central Regional 1st Round) Sports Information Sports Information Director Ryan Prickett SID Office Phone (785) 628-5903 SID Fax (785) 628-4383 EMMA STROYAN E-mail [email protected] Assistant Sports Information Director (WBB Contact) Seth Kincaid Office Phone (785) 628-4785 Emma Stroyan is the lone senior on this year’s Press Box Phone N/A Fort Hays State Athletics Website www.fhsuathletics.com squad, entering her second season as a Tiger. The Coaching Staff forward led the team with 56 blocks as a junior, Head Coach Tony Hobson Alma Mater, Year Hastings College, 1981 sixth-most in a season in program history. The Record at FHSU (Years) 179-85/.678 (9 years) Bloomington, Ill. native also led the team in field Total Collegiate Record (Years) 592-191/.756 (25 years) Best Time To Call Weekday Mornings goal percentage, knocking down 54 percent of her Team Information attempts last year. 2016-17 Overall Record 22-8 2016-17 Conference Record/Finish 12-7 MIAA/6th Starters Returning/Lost 2/3 Letterwinners Returning/Lost 9/5 TTABLEABLE OOFF CCONTENTSONTENTS FORT HAYS FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 2017-18 A MEMBER OF THE MID-AMERICA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION COLISEUM GROSS Quick Facts/Senior Class Inside Front Cover Review Table of Contents 1 2016-17 Season Review 40 2016-17 Final Statistics 41-44 Fort Hays State University About Fort Hays State University 2 The MIAA FHSU Interim President - Dr. Andy Tompkins 2 2016-17 Standings 46 COACHES PLAYERS OPPONENTS REVIEW THE MIAA RECORDS HISTORY FHSU Athletics Staff 3 2016-17 MIAA Postseason 46 Athletics Staff Directory 4 2016-17 All-MIAA Selections 46 Academic Majors at FHSU 4 2016-17 MIAA Individual Leaders 47 FHSU Athletic Facilities 5-8 2016-17 MIAA Team Leaders 48-49 About The MIAA 50 Gross Memorial Coliseum MIAA All-Time Champions 50 Gross Memorial Coliseum 10-11 MIAA Member Information 50 Women’s Basketball Locker Room 12 Records Coaches Game Records 52 Head Coach Tony Hobson 14-15 Season Records 53-54 Assistant Coach Talia Kahrs 16 Career Records 55-56 Graduate Assistant Coach Paige Lunsford 16 Team Records 57-58 Yearly Leaders 58-60 Players 2017-18 Roster/Pronunciation Guide 18 History Roster Breakdown 19 FHSU Individual Honors 62-63 2017-18 Outlook 20 FHSU All-Americans 63 Player Profi les 21-30 History of Letterwinners 64 National & Conference Championships 65 Opponents Coaching History 66 Connecticut 32 FHSU Milestone Victories 66 Kansas State 32 Series Records 67 Upper Iowa 32 Season-By-Season Results 68-71 Southwest Minnesota State 32 Media Information 72 Colorado-Colorado Springs 32 Newman 32 2016-17 All-MIAA Selections Inside Back Cover Sterling 33 2017-18 Schedule Back Cover Missouri Southern 33 Pittsburg State 33 CREDITS Washburn 33 • The 2017-18 Fort Hays State University Women’s Basketball Emporia State 33 Media Guide was written, edited and designed by Ryan Tabor 33 Prickett, FHSU Sports Information Director, and Seth Kincaid, Rockhurst 34 FHSU Assistant Sports Information Director. • Outside covers were designed by Seth Kincaid, Assistant Midland 34 FHSU Sports Information Director. Bethany 34 • Player and coach mugs and campus photos are credited to Central Missouri 34 Mitch Weber, FHSU CTELT. Action photos are credited to Southwest Baptist 34 Mitch Weber, Mark Shaiken, Bob Duffy, Emma Henry and Bria Creeden. Nebraska-Kearney 34 • Statistical research and historical research for the guide was Missouri Western 35 conducted by Ryan Prickett, Andrew Sogn, Doug Self, Tim Northwest Missouri State 35 Hanson, Jason McCullough, Trent Smith, Lynn Womack, and Lincoln 35 Rich Topp. • The guide was printed by Fort Hays State University Printing Lindenwood 35 Services. Northeastern State 35 Central Oklahoma 35 ON THE FRONT COVER MIAA Opponent Series History 36-38 Carly Heim, Jr. G (left) Emma Stroyan, Sr. F (center) Tatyana Legette, Jr. F (right) 1 FFORTORT HHAYSAYS SSTATETATE UUNIVERSITYNIVERSITY About Fort Hays State University Founded in 1902 on the plains of Western Kansas, Fort Hays State University is the second youngest of the six state universities. FHSU celebrated its centennial in 2002. From a humble but exciting beginning, when just two faculty members and a 19-course curriculum greeted 34 students, our university has grown to a faculty over 400, a support staff of more than 500 and a student body of 15,100. The university now offers hundreds of courses in each of its four main colleges — Education, Arts and Sciences, Business and Leadership, and Health and Life Sciences — and the Graduate School. The FHSU Virtual College provides many of the courses through various media to sites across Kansas and beyond. FHSU is governed by a Board of Regents appointed by the governor of the state of Kansas. FHSU is located in Hays, the largest city in northwest Kansas. Hays began as a wild frontier town and has grown into a progressive community of more than 20,000 people. The old and new blend beautifully to form a city that is small enough to be comfortable yet large enough to provide abundant cultural, commercial and entertainment opportunities. In 1996, Hays was recognized as an All-America City. The university sits on a campus of 4,160 acres of land that once was part of the historic Fort Hays frontier military post, and it recently expanded to include the relocated Sternberg Museum of Natural History on a site adjacent to Interstate 70 in northeast Hays. Big Creek, with its shady, grassy banks, meanders through the main campus, providing a tranquil learning atmosphere and serving as a natural laboratory for students in the biological sciences. With its stately limestone buildings and profuse fl owers, trees and shrubs, our campus has often been called the prettiest in Kansas. FHSU is academically superior to many comparable universities, offers students an electronic learning and living environment, and is richly endowed by heritage and tradition. Students come to our university for a multitude of reasons, but surveys show that their overwhelming reason is “the university’s reputation for academic excellence and its caring faculty.” The university supports one of the most extensive and successful intercollegiate sports programs of any comparably sized college or university in America, boasting numerous All-American athletes and national championships. More than 400 athletes compete annually in nine men’s and nine women’s sports. FHSU is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, which comprises 14 schools from the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska. The university also serves as the cultural center of western Kansas, featuring fi ne arts exhibitions, performing arts presentations by faculty, students and traveling professional troupes, and a Presidential Lecture Series. FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FORT HAYS STATE Dr. Andy Tompkins - Fort Hays State President (Interim) The Kansas Board of Regents announced the appointment of Dr. Andy Tompkins as interim president at Fort Hays State University on December 14, 2016, effective December 19, 2016. “There is no one in the State of Kansas who has more experience as a leader in education, or who is more qualifi ed to assist in this capacity,” said Zoe Newton, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents.