Stiles named to Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Jackie Stiles' long list of accomplishments just got longer.

The all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I women's basketball was named to the 2016 class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday at the WNBA All-Star Game. Stiles put up 3,393 points in her four-year career at Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State).

"I am truly honored and humbled to not only be inducted to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, but to be inducted with such an incredible group in the 2016 class," Stiles said in a Missouri State release.

"It is hard to put into words what an honor like this means to me. I share this with so many people that sacrificed and gave so much so that I could pursue my basketball dreams. Without them, none of this would have been possible. I am truly grateful for a platform like this. I will use it to give back to game, like so many others before me."

Stiles is one of six honorees in the 2016 class, which includes Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale, referee June Courteau, high school coach Joe Lombard, the late administrator Bill Tipps and UCLA star Natalie Williams. The 1996 U.S. Olympic team will also be honored.

Stiles, currently a Missouri State assistant coach, scored 1,062 points her senior season, the most-ever in a single season and the lone 1,000-point campaign in Division I women's basketball until Baylor's Odyssey Sims scored 1,054 in 2014.

Stiles earned first-team All-American honors from Kodak and the Associated Press her senior season, as the Lady Bears reached their second final four. Stiles was also named the Women's Basketball News Service Player of the Year, the Honda Awards Program Player of the Year, and won the Honda Awards Broderick Cup and the Wade Trophy that season.

Stiles earned Missouri Valley Conference first-team honors each of her four seasons in Springfield. She was the MVC Player of the Year her sophomore, junior and senior seasons, and the award is now named for her. Her 46 points against Evansville in 2000 are the fourth-most in a single game by a Division I women's player.

A Claflin, Kan., native, Stiles competed for the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team's under-18 and -19 squads and also competed in the Jones Cup in 2000. She was selected fourth overall by the Portland Fire in the 2001 WNBA Draft and was named an All-Star that season in addition to earning the Rookie of the Year award.

In a career cut short by an array of injuries, Stiles scored 603 points in 53 games, good for an 11.4 average. She was drafted 14th by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2003 dispersal draft after the Fire folded, but did not play again in the WNBA. Stiles later played in the National Women's Basketball League and the Women's National Basketball League in Australia. She was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Stiles is entering her third season as a Lady Bear assistant. The Hall of Fame's 2016 class, its 18th, will be enshrined in a June 11, 2016, ceremony in Knoxville, Tenn.

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