IRVING, Texas – Kendall Noble has been named the 2016-17 Preseason C-USA Player of the Year and joins Tashia Brown on the Preseason All-C-USA Team, and WKU has been picked as the favorites to win the league as announced by the conference office on Wednesday afternoon.
Noble is the third preseason conference Player of the Year selected in head coach Michelle Clark-Heard’s five seasons with the team, joining former WKU standouts Alexis Govan (Sun Belt, 2013-14) and Chastity Gooch (C-USA, 2014-15). In addition, the Lady Toppers have garnered multiple preseason all-conference nods in four of Clark-Heard’s five seasons, with the lone exception coming last year when Noble was the sole preseason representative for WKU.