MSU Denver Athletics

Vanessa Edwards' record-setting two-season career comprised the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons and she accomplished nearly four seasons worth of production. She was the two-time Colorado Athletic Conference Player of the Year, and in 1995-96, she was named to the All-America second team by Daktronics as well as All-America honorable mention by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, after earning all-region first team honors from both organizations. She finished her career ranked second in program history with 1,159 points (she still ranked ninth when inducted), and was still the program's all-time leader with a scoring average of 20.7 points per game, and was also still first with a career field goal percentage of .569 (463 of 813) when inducted. She also ranked fifth all-time with an average of 8.8 rebounds per game when inducted. Also, when inducted, she still held the program single-season record of 653 points, which she scored in her senior season, and her junior-year output of 476 still ranked seventh. Her 24.4 points per game as a senior was easily still the program record when inducted, while her 17.0 points per game as a junior ranked sixth. Among her other legacies, she scored 22 points in the first half of a Jan. 24, 1996, game against UCCS, which was still the most ever scored in the first half by a Roadrunner. Edwards led the Roadrunners to a two-season record of 35-21, including 22-2 in CAC play. MSU Denver won the CAC Tournament in 1994-95 and was the CAC regular-season champions in 1995-96 while earning the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Division II Tournament.