Honor Roll
Stevens, one of the most decorated female student-athletes in Canisius history, will be enshrined in “The MAAC Experience” exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., on Saturday, Sept. 16.
A three-time All-MAAC honoree and the program’s second conference Player of the Year, Stevens ranks fourth in the school’s record book with 1,590 career points and third with her 876 career rebounds. A member of the MAAC’s 25th Anniversary Team, the Freeport, N.Y., native earned All-MAAC Second Team accolades after her sophomore season in 2001-02 where she averaged 13.1 points per game for the Blue and Gold.
In 2002-03, Stevens scored 615 total points, second most for a single-season in school history, and earned first team All-MAAC honors after she averaged a double-double with 20.5 points and 10.1 boards per contest. She started that season by tying a school record with seven 3-point field goals in a win over Stetson, and her perfect 7-for-7 effort from behind the arc in that game still stands as a school record to this day. As a senior in 2003-04, she became just the second player in program history to earn MAAC Player of the Year honors after she posted 16.6 points and 9.9 rebounds per game. In addition to earning All-MAAC First Team honors for a second-straight season, she was tabbed as the 2003-04 MAAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, making her the first Griff to be acknowledged as the league’s top defensive player.
The first two-time Canisius Female Athlete of the Year, Stevens ranks in the top-10 of 10 different career statistical categories in the Canisius record book, and her 1,590 career points ranks among the top-40 in MAAC women’s basketball history. After he playing career ended, she spent the 2004-05 season on head coach Terry Zeh’s staff and was a part of Canisius’ MAAC Tournament championship team, the first Division I women’s basketball program in Western New York to advance to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship event.
A two-time team captain and the 2003-04 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year, Stevens graduated from Canisius with her undergraduate degree in business management in 2004, and she earned her master’s degree in sport administration from the College in 2005. She became the 12th former women’s basketball player in school history to be enshrined into the College’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.