ST. LOUIS – Drake University sophomores Maddy Dean (Jordan, Minn.) of the women's basketball team and Reed Timmer (New Berlin, Wis.) from the men's basketball team have been named the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday, Jan. 12. The honor is the first of Dean's career and the fourth this season for Timmer.
Timmer's honor marks the seventh-consecutive week a Drake men's basketball student-athlete has earned the award. A Drake student-athlete has won the award 15 times in the 21 weeks the honor has been awarded in 2015-16 including three weeks in which the Bulldogs swept the men's and women's honors.