Missouri State

JOBELLE HOPPER
Academic Achievement Center, 1987-2008
DON PAYTON AWARD

JoBelle Hopper, the founder and former director of what is now known as the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Academic Achievement Center for Intercollegiate Athletics, will go into the Hall of Fame as the seventh recipient of the Don Payton Award. 
Hopper spent 21 years mentoring and advising student-athletes, first as counselor working with men’s athletics and ultimately advancing into the director’s role of the achievement center from its formation. She engineered the department’s initial coordination of academic support and study resources for student-athletes from 1987 until her retirement in 2008.