News Articles – 2009
Jackie Stiles: The Air Jordan of Women’s College Hoops
Jackie Stiles took the SMS team on her shoulders and carried them in the 2000-2001 campaign. Aside from an early loss to Texas Tech, the Lady Bears put up a solid campaign but not enough to secure a four seed and two home games in the NCAA Tournament. SMS’ first two games are on the east coast and next two on the west coast.
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Stiles involved in “A slam dunk for two small hospitals”
A slam dunk for two small hospitals
December 2009
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Stiles turns to business
by Matt Wagner – Reporter
Springfield Business Journal
Missouri State University’s most recognizable female athlete is moving back to the city that embraced her remarkable collegiate career. These days, Stiles is honing a new skill: entrepreneurship.
Basketball star and businesswoman Jackie Stiles is the latest luminary from Springfield’s past who’s been unable to resist the Queen City’s peculiar magnetic pull.
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Hoops event boasts big names
By Clara Kilbourn
The Hutchinson News
ckilbourn@hutchnews.com
ASHLAND – The idea started with a hospital kitchen employee who thought a girls basketball game could raise some money for breast cancer research.
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Unique fundraiser planned to meet local needs
By Sarah Green
KHI News Service
Sept. 14, 2009
ASHLAND — The resources to assure that women receive regular cancer screenings are sparse here in this part of southwest Kansas.
But people in five small towns have joined to help solve the problem and in the process are putting one of the region’s most celebrated resources to work: women’s basketball.
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Final Four loss here in ’01 still hurts Jackie Stiles
By Stu Durando
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
03/17/2009
The wrist and shoulder that produced an NCAA-record 3,393 points began to malfunction soon after Jackie Stiles reached the WNBA. An ankle that generated the lift on her jumper was suddenly shot.
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Missouri State Announces Athletics hall of Fame Class of 2009
February, 2009
Two of the most prolific scorers in Missouri State University basketball history headline a seven-member 2009 induction class into the Missouri State University Athletics Hall of Fame. The rest of the induction group includes two long-time athletics administrators and a trio of four-year standouts who took Missouri State teams to conference championships in their respective sports as the shrine’s 35th annual induction unfolds the weekend of Feb. 6-7, 2009. It will be the first Missouri State induction class to be presented at JQH Arena.
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Jackie featured in new Chicken Soup for the Soul book
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball. is scheduled to be available in bookstores February 10, 2009.
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