CCCC announces Hall of Fame class

Cloud County Community College has selected three members to be enshrined as the 14th Cloud County Athletics Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted the evening of Saturday, February 8th when the basketball teams host Coffeyville Community College as part of Homecoming weekend.The three Cloud County greats who will be honored that evening are Kevin Muff, Stanecia Graham, and Jennifer (Stunkel) Thalmann.
A two-year basketball standout for the T-Birds, Muff would come back to coach his alma mater for a total of 12 seasons where he guided Cloud County to 202 wins. Cloud County would record two 24-win seasons (2006 and 2007) under Muff’s guidance along with averaging 21 wins per season in his final five seasons. Muff led the T-Birds to their first Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West Division Championship in school history in 2005 and was named the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association two-year college Coach of the Year for the 2002-03 season.
As a player, Muff would be named a McDonald’s and Converse High School All-American his senior year at Salina Central High School before joining the Thunderbirds where he would play from 1982-1984. During his time in black and gold, Muff was a first-team All-Region VI selection before transferring to Kansas State University where he would play two seasons for coach Jack Hartman.
Upon graduation from Kansas State, Muff worked as a student assistant to Wildcat coach Lon Kruger for one season and eventually wind up as a graduate assistant at Pittsburg State University. Muff would spend a total of three years at Pittsburg State, including two years as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator before landing his first head coaching job at Wamego High School in 1993. During his five-year tenure at Wamego, Muff led the Red Raiders to a second-place finish in the 1998 Kansas 4A State Tournament.
Following his 12-year stint with Cloud County, Muff would spend seven seasons at the helm of the Gorillas where he would compile 97 wins and be named 2015 MIAA Co-Coach of the Year after leading Pitt State to a 20-12 record and the program’s first MIAA Postseason Tournament title. The 2015 season would include the sixth all-time appearance in the NCAA Division II National Tournament for Pitt State.
Muff has spent the past two-plus seasons as head coach of the Washburn Rural High School boys’ basketball team while teaching government and geography.
Graham would be a two-year player for the Thunderbirds, spending the 2005-06 and 2006-07 with Cloud County where she would end her career a two-time All-American and finished as the program’s second all-time leading scorer with 1,182 points and second all-time leading rebounder with 588 rebounds. Graham would garner Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Freshman of the Year and first-team all KJCCC West Division along with first-team All-Region VI leading to honorable-mention NJCAA All-American Status as a freshman while also being selected to play in the inaugural NJCAA/WBCA All-Star Weekend. The Aurora, Illinois, native would follow up with first-team All-KJCCC and first-team All-Region VI honors to go along with third-team NJCAA All-American status as a sophomore after averaging 18.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
Graham would go on to spend one year at Texas Tech University where she played in 32 games with eight starts and averaged 7.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game before transferring to Washburn University for the 2008-09 season. During her senior year with the Ichabods, Graham would start 32 games and average 11.8 points per game while helping Washburn to their first-ever NCAA Division II tournament appearance before going on to spend three seasons overseas playing professionally in Montenegro, Bosnia, and Romania.
A two-sport athlete at Cloud County, Stunkel excelled both in track and field and volleyball during her time as a T-Bird (1992-1994). As a track athlete, Stunkel was a seven-time NJCAA All-American and Academic All-American. Stunkel would set the outdoor school record in high jump (5 ft. 8.75 in.) and holds both the indoor pentathlon record (3,357 points) and outdoor heptathlon record (4,853 points). The 1994 outdoor season would also see Stunkel become the first Cloud County athlete in school history to earn a medal at the Texas Relays, posting a second-place finish in the high jump.
On the volleyball court, Stunkel would play for current T-Bird volleyball coach Deb Monzon and help the T-Birds to an 83-20 record over the course of two seasons while recording a total of 438 kills. The Palmer, Kansas, native would also record 66 service aces and 121 blocks as the T-Birds would finish as Region Six runner-up in 1992 and third in 1993.
The induction ceremony for the 14th Cloud County Athletics Hall of Fame class will be held at halftime of the men's basketball game against Coffeyville Community College on Saturday, February 8. Action gets underway that afternoon at 2 p.m. with the women's game. The men's game will follow at 4 p.m.