The female nominee for the Emil S. Liston Award is Macy Sievers, a member of the Dordt University Women’s Basketball Team. Sievers, from Storm Lake, Iowa, is majoring in Elementary Education.
The Liston Award is named in honor of the NAIA’s first executive secretary and the prime mover behind the NAIA Men’s Basketball National Tournament. The award has been presented annually since 1950 to one junior men’s and one junior women’s basketball student-athlete who has shown high athletic and scholastic achievement.
With a 3.87 GPA, Sievers was named to the CSC Academic All-America 1st team in 2024-25, along with being a NAIA Scholar Athlete. The 2024-25 GPAC and NAIA Player of the Year has helped lead Dordt to back-to-back National Championships and three conference championships.
