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Athletes of the Week

L. Stokes

Lacy Stokes

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/2/2022
  • Sport
    Women's Basketball
  • Bio
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Lacy is the first player in the history of the MIAA to earn both Player and Freshman of the Year in the same season and is the first-ever Freshman of the Year winner for the Lions. The last time the Freshman of the Year was also named onto the All-MIAA first team was in the 2019-20 season with Tre'Zure Jobe at Emporia State. Lacy is the 11th Lion to be named first-team All-MIAA and the first since Sharese Jones in the 2015-16 season and the first freshman to ever be named onto the first team for Southern.
 
For the season, Lacy has the school's freshman records in single-season scoring with 523 points, points per game at 19.4, steals with 86, steals per game at 3.19, single-game scoring with 36 vs. Pittsburg State on February 19th, while racking up 13 games scoring 20 or more points and has scored 20 or more points in six straight games with an assist-turnover ratio of 3.58.
 
In MSSU single-season records, Lacy is first in assist-turnover ratio at 3.58, second in assists per game with 5.7, third in assists with 154, fifth in steals with 86, seventh in points per game with 19.4 and is tenth in single-season scoring with 523 points
 
Among Division II ranks Lacy is first in assist-turnover ratio, second in steals and steals per game, third in free throws attempted, seventh in free throws made, ninth in assists and assists per game, 13th in field goals attempted, 20th in points per game and 43rd in field goals made. Lacy leads Division II freshman in assist-turnover ratio, assists, assists per game, steals, steals per game and free throws attempted while being third in points scored, point per game and free throws made, fourth in field goals attempted and fifth in field goals made.
 
Lacy across the NCAA Divisions (I, II, III) overall ranks third in assist-turnover ratio, 11th in free throws attempted, 13th in free throws made, 16th in steals, 35th in steals per game and is 36th in assists and assists per game. Among freshman in the NCAA Divisions (I, II, III) Lacy leads them in assist-turnover ratio and free throws attempted, third in steals and free throws made, fourth in assists, assists per game and steals per game. Fifth in points scored, sixth in field goals attempted, seventh in points per game and 11th in field goals made.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
11/20/2023 Gidieon Kimutai Men's Track and Field
11/13/2023 Ryan Franklin Women's Basketball
11/13/2023 Ian McSwain Football
11/6/2023 Jaden Deaton Men's Cross Country
11/6/2023 Kyla Randall Women's Volleyball
10/30/2023 Ja'Veon Marlow Football
10/30/2023 Iratxe Fernandez-Cano Aldasoro Women's Golf
10/23/2023 Drake Reese Football
10/23/2023 Landrey VanOverschelde Women's Volleyball
10/16/2023 Emmerson Doyle Women's Golf
10/16/2023 Tradgon McCrae Men's Golf
10/9/2023 Laci Ownbey Women's Volleyball
10/9/2023 Zach Bergmann Football
10/2/2023 Aida Nunez Women's Golf
10/2/2023 Gidieon Kimutai Men's Cross Country
9/25/2023 Jaryn Benning Women's Volleyball
9/25/2023 Akeem Gilmore Football
9/18/2023 Josh Hamnett Men's Golf
9/18/2023 Cathy Ray Women's Soccer
9/11/2023 Halid Djibril Football
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