Details for the 11th annual “Jane A. Meyer Classic Evening with the Lady Bears” reception and dinner have been finalized and tickets are now available for purchase from the Missouri State Athletics box office. Women’s college basketball coaching icon Jody Conradt will be the featured guest speaker at the event, which will be held Monday, Oct. 1, at 6:30 p.m. at University Plaza Convention Center in Springfield.
This year’s “Classic Evening” will include a reception and banquet dinner, giving fans the opportunity to share an evening with Coach Conradt, the 2007-08 Missouri State Lady Bears, new MSU head coach Nyla Milleson and her staff. Tickets for the pre-dinner reception, which will begin at 5:30 p.m., can be purchased in combination with a dinner ticket for $75. The cost of a dinner-only ticket for the event is $35, while a reserved table for 10 that also includes two reception tickets can be purchased for $400.
A six-time national coach of the year, Jody Conradt concluded her 38-year coaching career with a 900-307 overall record. In her 31-year stay as head coach at the University of Texas, Conradt amassed 783 victories, 22 conference championships, three Final Four appearances and led the Longhorns to the 1986 national title with a perfect 34-0 mark. In October of 1998, she became just the second women’s basketball coach in history (along with Margaret Wade) to be elected into the Naismith National Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The following year, Conradt was a member of the inaugural class of inductees into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and was one of seven finalists for Naismith Women’s Basketball Coach of the Century honors. She also was inducted into the prestigious International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame (at the Institute for International Sport in Providence, R.I.) in the summer of 2003.
Fans interested in reserving tickets for the “Jane A. Meyer Classic Evening with the Lady Bears”, may utilize the registration brochure below or contact Missouri State TIX at (417) 836-7678 or (888) 476-7849.
