Hays Post
TOPEKA - Former Fort Hays State women's basketball standout and coach Annette Wiles was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Sunday evening.
Wiles was one of 12 inducted in the ceremony held at Hotel Topeka.
Click below to hear Gerard Wellbrock's visit with Wiles prior the the ceremony.
The 2024 inductees to the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.
- Dave Bingham - NAIA national champion baseball coach at Emporia State and head coach for College World Series participant Kansas
- Erik Kynard – Olympic Gold Medalist High Jumper at Kansas State
- Melvin Lister - National champion in the Long Jump at Leavenworth H.S., Butler County CC, and Arkansas
- Mark Mangino - National Assistant Football Coach-of-the-Year at Oklahoma; and Head Coach for Orange Bowl Champion at Kansas
- Ron Neugent - Swimming Gold Medalist in World University Games; and American Record-Holder at Kansas
- Kelly Rankin - the only American to be the head starter for two Olympic Games
- Scott Russell - NCAA champ and Olympic qualifier for Canada in the javelin at Kansas
- Kevin Saunders - Bronze Medalist and Record-Holder for U.S. in Paralympic Games
- Will Shields - Native Kansan, 14-year NFL veteran Kansas City Chiefs. Member, College & NFL halls of fame
- Sean Snyder - Consensus All-American punter and national special teams coach of the year at Kansas State
- Mark Turgeon - All-State basketball player at Topeka Hayden, four-time NCAA Tournament qualifier at Kansas, Missouri Valley (Wichita State) and Big Ten Champion (Maryland) coach and conference Coach-of-the-Year.
- Annette Wiles - Two-time NAIA Basketball All-American and NAIA Tournament MVP at Fort Hays State
Wiles was a two-time NAIA All-America selection and the NAIA National Tournament MVP her senior year when she helped lead Fort Hays State to the 1991 NAIA Women's Basketball national title. Wiles is also the all-time leading scorer in Fort Hays State program history with 2,407 points and a scoring average of 20.4 points per game. She is the only player in the program's history to score 2,000 points in a career and only player with a career scoring average better than 16 points per game. Wiles still owns FHSU career records for the following categories – field goals made (993), field goals attempted (1,700), and field goal percentage (.584). She also owns the single-season records for points (880, 1990-91), scoring average (24.4 ppg), field goals made (358), field goals attempted (582), and rebounds (364).
Following her four-year playing career at Fort Hays State, Wiles went on to have a successful career as a women's collegiate basketball coach. She put together a career record 409-227 (.643). Her first head coaching position was at Bethany (Kan.) College (164-52 record) for seven years from 1994-2000 before leading her alma mater Fort Hays State (136-89 record) for eight years from 2000-2008. She moved on to become head coach for seven years at Minnesota Duluth (109-86 record) from 2008-2015. She was twice named Kansas Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year and twice named the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. She led three teams to NCAA Tournament appearances, which included Fort Hays State in 2005 and Minnesota Duluth in 2010 and 2012. She led Bethany College to four NAIA national tournament appearances. Following her time at Minnesota Duluth, Wiles returned to Kansas as athletic director at Topeka High School and then became the director of Hummer Sports Park in Topeka.