ST. LOUIS, Mo. –For the second-straight year, Drake’s Anna Miller has been named the State Farm Scholar-Athlete of the Year and headlines a group of six of the league’s top players named to the 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete First Team, as voted on by the Conference’s women’s basketball communications directors.

Miller has maintained a perfect 4.00 grade-point average (GPA) as a health sciences major. The senior ranks among the league’s leaders in scoring, rebounding and blocks. She is joined on the first team by teammate Katie Dinnebier, Tuti Jones (Belmont), Elyce Knudsen (Illinois State), Nevaeh Thomas (Illinois State) and Katelyn Young (Murray State).

Courtney Becker and Abbie Aalsma also represented the Bulldogs on the Scholar-Athlete Second and Third Teams, respectively.

The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the College Sports Communicators (CSC) standards for Academic All-America nominations. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), and a graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don’t have an established
graduate GPA.

A total of 38 Valley student-athletes met the nomination criteria for scholar-athlete honors in 2025.

2024-25 MVC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE TEAMS

First Team

Second Team

Third Team