2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster
Marie Kiefer
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Bishop Brossart
- Hometown:
- Alexandria, Ky.
2024-25 | SENIOR
- MAC Defensive Player of the Year
- MAC All-Defensive Team
- Academic All-MAC
- Started in all 35 games for the Cardinals-
- Led the team in blocks with 200
- Led the team in rebounding (7.1 rpg)
- Set the single-season record for blocks (51)
- Set the program record in career blocks (200)
- Finished career with 985 points
- Pulled down a personal best 16 rebounds at Ohio State (1/29/25)
- Scored a season high 19 points against South Dakota State (12/1/24)
- Scored in double figures 11 times
- Had season high five blocks against Western Michigan (2/1/25)
- Helped the Cardinals to win the 2025 MAC Tournament for the second time in program history and a berth to the NCAA Tournament along with a MAC regular season title
2023-24 | JUNIOR
- Academic All-MAC
- Started in all 34 games for the Cardinals
- Scored a season high 19 points against James Madison (Feb. 11)
- Recorded a career best five blocks twice
- Pulled down double-digit rebounds four times
- Tallied one double-double
- Led the team in blocks (41) and rebounds (183)
- Currently ranks 22nd all-time in rebounds (567) and second all-time in blocks (140)
- Needs 13 blocks to become the Cardinals all-time leader in blocks
- Needs 274 points to reach 1,000
- Helped the Cardinals to 28 overall wins and 16 league victories with both being program records along with an
automatic berth to the inaugural NCAA WBIT postseason tournament
2022-23 | SOPHOMORE
- Named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team
- Started in all 35 games for the Cardinals
- First on the team in blocks (51) and rebounds (201)
- Third most blocks all-time in a season (51)
- Ranks third all-time in blocked shots with 99
- Scored a season best 22 points at Bowling Green (3/1/23)
- Pulled down a career high 13 rebounds versus Bowling Green while going 4-of-4 from the charity stripe (1/4/23)
- Reached double digit scoring 11 times and double figure rebounding six times
- Had two double-double performances
- Tallied a career high four blocks versus Bowling Green (1/4/23)
- Helped the Cardinals tie the programs record for most wins in a season (26) and another postseason trip to the WNIT
2021-22 | FRESHMAN
- Played in 33 games with 27 starts for the Cardinals
- Averaged 19.3 minutes per contest and 6.3 ppg
- Ranked first on the team in blocks (48) and second on the team in rebounds (183)
- Scored 208 points as a true freshman
- Made first collegiate appearance against Milwaukee (11/9/21)
- Earned a career best 24 point and 12 rebound performances for her first career double-double against
Bowling Green (2/5/22)
- Scored in double figures eight times and had four double rebound games
- Compiled a season best five blocks against Western Michigan (2/21/22)
NOTEWORTHY
- Career best in points 24 against Bowling Green (2/5/22)
- Career best 13 rebounds versus Bowling Green (1/4/23)
- Career best in blocks 5 four times
- Helped the Cardinals reach the MAC Tournament title game and its seventh postseason
Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) appearance
- Helped the Cardinals tie the programs record for most wins in a season (26) and another postseason trip to the WNIT
- Currently ranks 22nd all-time in rebounds (567) and second all-time in blocks (140)
- Needs 13 blocks to become the Cardinals all-time leader in blocks
- Needs 274 points to reach 1,000
HIGH SCHOOL
- First player from Brossart to be named a Kentucky All-Star since 2001
- Second-team all-region selection
- Helped Brossart win its 10th Region All "A" girls title last season with an overall record of 21-6
- Voted the 10th Region Player of the Year and Division II Player of the Year by the coaches in Northern Kentucky
- Entering her senior season, she was ranked as one of the top 250 best high school players in the country for the
class of 2021 according to The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report
- Ended her career with the Mustangs having scored over 1,000 points for her career
PERSONAL
- Full Name: Marie Rose Kiefer
- Birthday: Oct. 4, 2002
- Hometown: Melbourne, Kentucky
- Major: Excercise Science
- Parents: Doug and DeAnn Kiefer
- Siblings: Justin Kiefer
