FHSU Athletics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Fort Hays State women's basketball team had three student-athletes earn All-MIAA status for their performance during the 2025-26 season, announced Tuesday by the league office, highlighted by MIAA Player of the Year Talexa Weeter.
Weeter and MIAA single season assist record holder Brooke Loewe were both first team All-MIAA selections, while Olivia Mortensen took home third team honors. The true freshman was one of just two first-year student-athletes to earn a spot on the first, second or third teams.
The MIAA Player of the Year has been a Tiger each of the last three seasons, the first time one school has had three-straight league MVPs since 2008-10 (Emporia State). Fort Hays State has had five MIAA Players of the Year since joining the league 20 years ago, tied for the most by any school during that span (ESU). The Tigers have two first-team selections for the second year in a row and the seventh time in team history.
Weeter has had a breakout junior season, leading all Division II and ranking second across all divisions of NCAA women's basketball with an average of 27.3 points per game. Entering the postseason with 763 points, the Goodland, Kan. native is 34 points shy of tying the MIAA single season scoring record (797, Jennifer Harris, Washburn, 2005-06). She is just the fifth MIAA player to score 700-plus points in a season and the first to do so in 20 years.
The junior scored in double figures in all 28 games and 38-straight going back to last season. She's scored 20-plus 23 times, including 11 games with at least 30 points and one game with 45 points on New Year's Day against Northwest Missouri State, one shy of the program record. She also ranks third in the conference with 8.8 rebounds per game, recording nine double-doubles.
Weeter ranks second in the conference with a field goal percentage of 51.8 percent while ranking fifth in the league with an average of 1.9 made 3-pointers per game. This is her second All-MIAA recognition after earning honorable mention status as a sophomore.
After breaking the school record and leading all DII in assists last season, Loewe shattered those marks as a senior, entering the postseason with an MIAA-record 285 assists. That total broke a 27-year-old conference record and is tied for 15th-most in a single season in DII history. She is the only player, male or female, across all levels of NCAA basketball, currently averaging in double figures in assists with 10.2 per game.
The Huxley, Iowa native is one of three Division II players with multiple triple-doubles this season, recording two in a span of nine days after FHSU had been without a triple-double for 11 years. She nearly averages a double-double, scoring 9.4 points per game while ranking second in the conference with a team-best 2.2 steals per game.
Loewe distributed 10 or more assists 15 times in 28 games, including one game with a school-record 17 assists at Nebraska-Kearney that was a single-game high across all levels of NCAA women's basketball this season. After tying the school record with 13 assists in a game last season, Loewe totaled 14 or more dimes in six games this season. No other DII player has more than one 14-plus assist game this season, with only four other players doing so even once. This is Loewe's second All-MIAA honor after receiving honorable mention recognition last season.
Mortensen has put together a strong freshman season, ranking second on the team and 15th in the conference with an average of 12.5 points per game. She's scored in double figures 17 times, second-most on the team, including six games with at least 20 points. The Broomfield, Colo. native ranks third in the conference in field-goal percentage, knocking down 49.2 percent from the floor.
She recorded one double-double against Newman and scored a season-high 27 points on 12-of-13 shooting against Chadron State. Mortensen is the first Tiger freshman to earn a spot on the All-MIAA first, second or third teams since Kate Lehman in 2011-12.
After finishing in second place in the league standings, Fort Hays State will open postseason play as the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament Thursday (March 5, 2:15 p.m.) against either No. 7 Missouri Western or No. 10 Nebraska-Kearney.
2025-26 MIAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL POSTSEASON AWARDS & ALL-MIAA TEAMS
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Talexa Weeter, Fort Hays State
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Sadie Maas, Northwest Missouri
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Mia Morel, Missouri Western
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Myleigh Weers, Nebraska Kearney
COACH OF THE YEAR: Dave Slifer, Central Missouri
MIAA ALL-DEFENSIVE TEAM
Jerney Bennett – Central Oklahoma, So.
Sadie Maas – Northwest Missouri, So.
Yiibari Nwidadah – Washburn, Sr.
Ana Oliveria Dias – Missouri Western, Jr.
Taylor Weishaar – Central Missouri, So.
ALL-MIAA FIRST TEAM
Brooke Loewe – Fort Hays State, Sr.
Yiibari Nwidadah – Washburn, Sr.
Reese Schaaf – Central Missouri, Sr.
Talexa Weeter – Fort Hays State, Jr.
Taylor Weishaar – Central Missouri, So.
ALL-MIAA SECOND TEAM
Ashlyn Alloway – Missouri Southern, Jr.
Jillian Aschoff – Nebraska Kearney, R-Sr.
Grace Frazier – Missouri Southern, So.
Mia Morel – Missouri Western, Sr.
Payton Sterk – Washburn, Sr.
ALL-MIAA THIRD TEAM
Gracie Gilpin – Emporia State, Sr.
Olivia Mortensen – Fort Hays State, Fr.
Kaitlyn Sanders – Emporia State, Gr.
Harper Schreiner – Pittsburg State, Sr.
McKenzie Smith – Northeastern State, So.
Myleigh Weers – Nebraska Kearney, Fr.
(team reflects ties in voting)
ALL-MIAA HONORABLE MENTION
Arkansas-Fort Smith – Telisha Brown, Sr.
Missouri Southern – Nariah Clay, So.
Missouri Western – Ana Oliveria Dias, Jr.; Nakiya Harris, Jr.
Newman – Jaeden McMillin, Jr.
Northwest Missouri – Bailey Birmingham, Fr.; Sadie Maas, So.
Pittsburg State – Ja'Miya Brown, Jr.; Marin Adams, Fr.
Rogers State – Samantha Shanks, Sr.
Washburn – Gabi Giovannetti, Sr.