GREENVILLE, S.C. – For the third consecutive year, Mid-America Christian women's basketball Head Coach Hannah Moeller was named the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Coach of the Year while senior forward Alexis Shannon received NCCAA First Team All-American honors for the third time in her career on Tuesday.
On top of being selected as an All-American, Shannon was also one of seven Evangels named to the NCCAA Scholar-Athlete list, joining Aaliyah Endsley, Avery Gregory, Lexi Hernandez, Ossyana Ozoani, Shelby Thrailkill and Sydney Wycoff.
In her fourth season at the helm, Moeller guided MACU to its fourth consecutive 20-plus win season as the Evangels closed out the campaign with a 21-11 record and finished fourth in the Sooner Athletic Conference standings with a 12-8 league mark.
The Evangels advanced to their fifth ever SAC Semifinal and the second under Moeller after knocking off Texas Wesleyan 80-75 in the quarterfinal round on Mar. 3 inside the Gaulke Activity Center.
Under Moeller, the Evangels were selected as the Central Region automatic bid to compete at the NCCAA National Championships for the fourth straight year. MACU was gunning for a third consecutive NCCAA National Championship before the tournament was canceled due to the COVIR-19 epidemic.
Moeller is only the second coach at the NCCAA Division I level to ever win three Coach of the Year honors, joining legendary Bethel Head Coach Jody Martinez. Moeller is also the first coach to ever receive the award three straight seasons at either Division I or Division II level.
It is the fourth overall NCCAA coaching honor for Moeller in her career after receiving the NCCAA Division II Coach of the Year in 2016 in her final season at Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College (now known as Randall University).
Shannon also joined some elite company on Tuesday by becoming just the third Evangel ever to receive All-American honors three times and the first to do so at the Division I level. Angela Holley was the first MACU women's basketball player to do so after being named an All-American in 1994, 1996 and 1997 followed by four-time winner Alissa Hauck from 1998-2001.
The Noblesville, Ind. native saved her best season for last, scoring a career-high 641 points at a 20 points per game clip, the second-most points scored in a single season since the program moved up to the NCCAA Division I level in 2007-08.
The 5-11 forward became the Evangels second all-time leading scorer on Feb. 6 in a 99-50 victory over Oklahoma Panhandle State after pouring in a career-best 33 points on 14-for-21 shooting to go with eight rebounds.
Shannon closed out her career setting several of the program's NCCAA Division I career marks, including setting the records for career points (1853), rebounds (757), field goals made (702), field goals attempted (1486), free throws made (345) and free throws attempted (503) while ranking third in field goal percentage (47.2 percent), third in steals (146) and fifth in assists (188).
