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