Miller Earns 2024-25 Great Midwest Player Of The Year Award

Prior to the resumption of the 2025 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday (March 7) at the Sherrill Hudson Court at Kates Gymnasium, there was the matter of what has become a yearly ritual – the announcement of an Ashland University women's basketball player as the league's Player of the Year.
 
As revealed by the conference on Thursday (March 6) afternoon, senior forward Zoe Miller has earned the 2024-25 Great Midwest Player of the Year award, giving an Eagle the honor for a third consecutive season. So far this winter, Miller is averaging 14.8 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game, while making 55.4 percent from the field and 43.2 percent from 3-point range.
 
Miller, the AU women's program's seventh conference Player of the Year since 2011-12, has saved her best for the end of the season. Over the last six games, she is averaging 20.8 points, 7.8 boards, 2.3 assists and 1.7 steals a contest.
 
Joining Miller on the conference's first team is fellow senior forward Hayley Smith, who averages 12.2 points, 11.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game, and hits 56.1 percent from the field and 75.5 percent from the free-throw line. Her 16 double-doubles this season are among the most in NCAA Division II.
 
Graduate guard Lydia Sweeney is a Great Midwest second-teamer. In her first season in the program, she is going for 9.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game, and making 41.5 percent from the field and 80.0 percent from the foul line.
 
The No. 5-ranked Eagles will play their conference tournament semifinal on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at home vs. Northwood (18-11). The championship game will be Saturday (March 8) at 3 p.m.
  2024-25 – Zoe Miller (Great Midwest Athletic Conference)
2023-24 – Annie Roshak (Great Midwest Athletic Conference)
2022-23 – Annie Roshak (Great Midwest Athletic Conference)
2017-18 – Jodi Johnson (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)
2016-17 – Laina Snyder (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)
2012-13 – Kari Daugherty (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)
2011-12 – Kari Daugherty (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)