SPRINGFIELD -- Missouri State volleyball coach Melissa Stokes, former basketball player Kelby Stuckey, and long-time radio broadcaster Art Hains will join the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in January, it was announced Thursday, Dec. 1. The Class of 2017 will be inducted in a 5 p.m. ceremony on Jan. 29 at University Plaza Convention Center.

Stokes is in her 21st season leading the volleyball Bears, and owns a 464-221 career record following a regular season in which MSU claimed the school's second Missouri Valley Conference regular season title. The 2016 MVC Coach of the Year guided Missouri State to a 26-8 record this season, with her ninth NCAA Tournament appearance in the last 14 seasons set to begin Dec. 2. 

The MVC's all-time winningest coach in terms of conference victories with 272, Stokes has guided MSU to 18 consecutive winning seasons both overall and in league play, reaching 20 wins in 17 of those campaigns. She has mentored six All-Americans, 74 all-MVC selections, 52 MVC Players of the Week, three Academic All-Americans and 54 MVC Scholar-Athletes in her career.

Stuckey owns the distinction of having played in more winning games (87) than any other player in Missouri State men's basketball history. A three-year starter, Stuckey appeared on MSU's first four Division I postseason teams from 1985-89, finishing his career with 1,188 career points and 661 rebounds. He twice earned first-team all-Mid-Continent conference honors before enjoying a 14-year professional basketball career in the international game.

Hains has been on the call for MSU athletics events for nearly four decades in a career that began in 1977. After a four-year stint away from Springfield in the early 1980s, Hains returned to MSU in 1985 and has called more than 2,200 Missouri State athletics events since, including the 1999 men's basketball run to the Sweet 16, the 2011 Missouri Valley Conference basketball championship season, football playoffs in 1989 and 1990, and nine NCAA baseball regional appearances, including the 2003 College World Series.

Joining the MSU trio in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame 2017 induction class are: the voice of the Missouri Tigers, Mike Kelly, Houston Astros owner Jim Crane (University of Central Missouri baseball), former Missouri football coach Warren Powers, Missouri head athletic trainer Rex Sharp, B.A.S.S. champion Rick Clunn (Ava), motocross champion Jeff Emig (Kansas City), NFL referee George Hayward (St. Joseph), track coach Rod Staggs (St. Louis Berkeley), Penney High School football coach David Fairchild and Glendale High School soccer coach Jeff Rogers. The Hall of Fame also will induct the New Bloomfield High School Baseball Program and its coach, the late Rod Haley, and the University of Central Missouri Mules Baseball Program.

An individual ticket to the induction ceremony is $150. A sponsorship table of 10 is $1,500, and includes an autographed print of the Class of 2017, and sponsorship recognition in the printed program and at the table. For tickets, call the Hall of Fame at 417-899-3100.