KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The annual Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Awards Celebration will be on Monday night (June 2) in Kansas City, Mo. The event will be at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, set for 6:30 p.m. The event will be recorded and then provided on
The MIAA Network afterwards.
The event will feature the recognition of the MIAA Hall of Fame Class of 2025. The class consists of 10 former student-athletes and one administrator. Fort Hays State has two individuals going into the Hall of Fame this year, which includes Kate (Lehman) Bremerman (women's basketball, 2011-15) and Darcie (Schmitz) Riordan (women's track and field, 2009-11). They will be the second and third MIAA Hall of Fame inductees for FHSU after Maddie Holub (softball, 2010-13) was the first inducted in 2024. To learn more information on the 2025 class,
click here.
FHSU Release on Lehman and Schmitz for the MIAA Hall of Fame
The finalists for the 2024-25 Ken B. Jones Award, given to the conference's top male and female student-athletes, will also be recognized at the event. The winners will be announced during the ceremony.
Katie Wagner DeGarmo (women's basketball) and
Myles Menges (football) are finalists for the award this year. DeGarmo (formerly Wagner) was the women's winner in 2024 and has a chance to be the first repeat winner of the Ken B. Jones Award since 2017. There have been three women's repeat winners and one men's repeat winner in the history of the award. FHSU has had at least one finalist for the award every year since 2015, when the aforementioned Kate Lehman was the first-ever FHSU student-athlete to win the award. To learn more information on the MIAA's 2024-25 Ken B. Jones finalists,
click here.
FHSU Release on DeGarmo and Menges as Ken B. Jones Finalists
The evening will also include recognitions for this year's recipients of the Dr. Bob Boerigter
Officiating Award of Excellence, the MIAA SAAC Cup, and the 2024-25 MIAA Commissioner's Cup. Pittsburg State claimed the
2024-25 MIAA Commissioner's Cup for the fourth-straight year.
