WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Ex-Bandys star Story earns postgraduate scholarship from Sun Belt - Hobbs Daily Report

Madi Story, who led Appalachian State to 22 wins and a Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI) title last season as a fifth-year senior, has earned a postgraduate scholarship from the Sun Belt Conference, the league announced Friday. Story, a former star at Bandys High, will be working toward a Master’s degree at her alma mater./APPALACHIAN STATE PHOTO

She will pursue a Master’s degree in

speech-language pathology at App State

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BOONE – Former Bandys High star Madi Story, who led Appalachian State’s women’s basketball team to a Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI) title in her final season, received a 2019 Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship on Friday.

The conference announced Story as one of seven student-athletes for a $3,000 scholarship that goes toward graduate school.

MADI STORY

After graduating in May with a Bachelor’s degree in communication disorders and posting a 3.96 grade point average, Story will begin pursuing her Master’s degree in speech-language pathology at App State in the fall.

The recipients are selected by the Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship Committee, which is comprised of Faculty Athletic Representatives from across the conference.

Story had a decorated career at Appalachian State, playing four seasons over five years. She missed the 2017-18 season after an injury and returned in 2018-19 as a red-shirt senior to help the Mountaineers win 22 games.

She averaged a team-best 12.3 points per game as Appalachian State posted the fifth-best turnaround in the country last season and won a WBI title.

Story, daughter of former Mountaineers player Mitzi (Yount) Story and Mark Story, also a former athlete at Bandys High, also averagd 4.7 rebounds last season for the Mountaineers.

For her career, Madi Story scored 1,294 points to rank ninth in Appalachian State women’s basketball history. She is sixth in career free throws (317) and 19^th on the all-time rebounding list.

Madi Story cleared 1,000 career points, becoming the 25^th player to do so, with a season-high 28 points in an Appalachian State victory over Wofford.

She made the Dean’s List in the fall of 2014 and in the spring of 2016 and made the Sun Belt Commissioner’s academic honor roll in each of her five years in Boone.