MOLINE, Ill. – For the second-consecutive season, Drake University junior Becca Hittner (Urbandale, Iowa) is the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year while senior Sammie Bachrodt (Wichita, Kan.) is the MVC Defensive Player of the Year. The pair along with Drake's other MVC award winners were presented their awards at a ceremony on the opening night of the 2019 MVC Tournament at Moline's TaxSlayer Center.
Hittner is the first Bulldog to be named the conference player of the year twice since Drake legend Wanda Ford in 1985 and 1986.