TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State Athletics continues its year-long celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Title IX today by recognizing the life and impact of Sycamore Hall of Famer Melanie Boeglin.
ISU Athletics will be spotlighting a different pioneer or trailblazer every month starting in August 2022 and carrying through June 2023. The ISU Title IX series is brought to you in partnership with the Hamilton Center.
Boeglin was a dominant player for Indiana State's women's basketball program from 2002 to 2006. She became the first athlete in the history of the MVC to win the Jackie Stiles Player of the Year award and the league's Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in the same season, both coming in 2006.
Most recently, Boeglin was named a part of the 2023 Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame class. She became Indiana State's 11th MVC Hall of Fame selection and third female from the institution to be honored. The 2023 class will be inducted at the league's annual Hall of Fame ceremony at the State Farm MVC Men's Basketball Championship in St. Louis, Mo. on Friday, March 3.
During her outstanding 2006 season, Boeglin earned third-team honors on The Sporting News All-America squad, and she was also a Women's Basketball Coaches Association/Kodak and Associated Press All-American Team honorable-mention pick.
Boeglin earned first-team all-MVC honors in all four of her seasons at ISU (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), and she was also a member of the league's All-Defensive Team in each of those seasons. Boeglin was the league's 2005 Defensive Player of the Year. She was selected to the league's All-Centennial Team, announced in 2007. Boeglin led the Sycamores in scoring as a junior in 2004-05 (16.0 ppg) and as a senior in 2005-06 (18.2 ppg). She led ISU in assists and steals for all four of her seasons.
The 2006 ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American was also a three-time MVC All-Academic Team choice (2004, 2005, 2006).
Boeglin still ranks in ISU's Top 10 in six career categories, including steals (1st, 436), assists (1st, 685), games played (1st, 124), free throws made (1st, 576), points scored (3rd, 1,800), and made field goals (5th, 571). Her 46-point outburst at Drake in January 2006 remains a school single-game record.
During her Sycamore career, Indiana State posted an 88-36 record, won, or finished second in the MVC regular season three times, and participated in the Women's NIT three times.
In 2006, Boeglin was the first Indiana State women's basketball player to receive an invitation to attend the WNBA Pre-Draft Camp. In February 2019, she became the first woman at Indiana State to have her number (22) retired.
Boeglin resides in Whitestown, Ind., with her husband Donnie and her daughter Spencer. She currently works in marketing at Indiana University Health as a Program Manager of Corporate Partnerships.
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