KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced its major postseason award winners and All-MIAA teams from the 2025-26 women’s basketball season. Twenty-eight student-athletes received postseason honors, highlighted by the league’s five major award winners.
 
Five individuals from five different institutions earned the league’s major postseason honors in the 2025-26 season. Fort Hays State’s Talexa Weeter was crowned the Player of the Year, Northwest Missouri’s Sadie Maas was named the Defensive Player of the Year, Missouri Western’s Mia Morel was named the Newcomer of the Year, and Nebraska Kearney’s Myleigh Weers was named the Freshman of the Year. Central Missouri Head Coach Dave Slifer was voted the MIAA Coach of the Year by his peers.
 
The 2025-26 MIAA women’s basketball regular season concluded this past Saturday (Feb. 28), with the top ten teams advancing to the 2026 MIAA Basketball Championship, hosted March 4-8 in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium.
 
Central Missouri claimed the top seed in the postseason tournament by winning the regular season championship title with an MIAA record of 17-2. It’s the Jennies’ first regular season crown since the 2019-20 season and 13th overall – the most of any MIAA member institution.
 
Fort Hays State’s Talexa Weeter was named the MIAA Player of the Year and was named an All-MIAA First Team selection. Weeter, a 6-0 junior guard from Goodland, Kan., led all of NCAA Division II and Division I with 27.2 points per game. She dominated the league with 763 total points in the regular season – 225 points more than the league’s second-highest point scorer. Weeter is also one of the league’s top rebounders with 8.8 boards per game – the third-most in the MIAA. She also ranks second in the MIAA in field goal percentage (.518), fifth in three-pointers per game (1.9), and ninth in blocked shots per game (1.0). Weeter led the Tigers to a runner-up finish in the regular season with a league record of 15-4.  
 
Northwest Missouri’s Sadie Maas was named the Defensive Player of the Year, was one of five players named to the All-Defensive Team and earned All-MIAA Honorable Mention honors. The 6-1 sophomore forward from Waukee, Iowa, was a key player in helping the Bearcats own the third-best defense in the league. Maas ranks second in the MIAA and seventh in Division II with 2.5 blocks per game (72 total). She also leads Northwest on the boards and ranks fifth in the league with 8.3 rebounds per game.
 
Missouri Western’s Mia Morel was named the Newcomer of the Year. The 5-7 senior first-year transfer from Edward Waters University leads the Griffons offense and ranks third in the MIAA with 17.1 points per game. Morel, the reigning Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Player of the Year, led the league from the free point range with 71 total ( 2.5 per game). She also ranks fifth with 3.6 assists per game and 12th with 1.5 steals per game.
 
Nebraska Kearney’s Myleigh Weers was selected as the league’s Freshman of the Year. The 5-9 guard from Diller, Neb., had a standout freshman season. She led the Lopers' offense and ranks fourth in the MIAA with 15.0 points per game. She also ranked in the league’s top ten in field goal percentage (.398), free throw percentage (.810), three-point field goals per game (1.6) and steals per game (1.6).
 
Central Missouri Head Coach Dave Slifer was voted the Coach of the Year. The now six-time MIAA Coach of the Year led the Jennies to their first regular season title in six seasons. Central Missouri’s 72.0 scoring average ranks third in the league, while the Jennies defense held opponents to the second-lowest scoring average in the league. The 2025-26 championship is Slifer’s fourth regular season title with the Jennies and sixth overall (won as the head coach at Missouri Western in the 1996-97 and 2001-02 seasons).
 
The complete list of the 2025-26 women’s basketball postseason award winners and All-MIAA teams is listed below.
 
The 2026 MIAA Women’s Basketball Championship tips off this Wednesday, March 4. The year, the women will compete in the afternoon sessions with the men’s sessions following in the evenings. To view the official tournament schedule, purchase tickets, and find more information about the 2026 MIAA Basketball Championships in Kansas City, visit theMIAA.com/basketball.