WICHITA - CollegeSportsMadness.com has named Wichita State University's Jody Adams as its Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year.  Shocker sophomore Alex Harden was named to the All-Conference Second Team.

Adams is in her fifth season at WSU and has taken the team from a 10^th-place finish in 2008-09 to the co-championship this year.  The Shockers set program records for overall (21) and MVC (15) victories while matching a school-record 10-game winning streak.  Under Adams, WSU started conference play with a sparkling 10-0 record en route to winning the school's first-ever conference title. 

Harden overcame a slow start to become a dominant player in MVC competition.  In Valley games the sophomore leads the Shockers in scoring (13.6 ppg), rebounds (5.1), assists (4.4), blocked shots (21), and steals (32).  She is shooting .505 from the field and .764 from the line. 

The website named UNI's Jacqui Kalin its Player of the Year and Creighton's Marissa Janning its Freshman of the Year.

The all-conference teams as voted on by the league's coaches, SIDs, and media members will be released on Wednesday.  The league's "specialty awards" (Coach of the Year, Player of the Year, etc.) will be released Thursday.