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As the Drury Lady Panthers basketball program celebrates its 25th anniversary season in 2024-25, it is fitting that one its all-time leading scorers is honored with induction into the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame.
Bethanie Funderburk was one of southwest Missouri’s top talents during her high school career at Nixa. She was a McDonald’s High School All-American finalist, a three-time all-state selection, she helped Nixa to the Class 5 State championship and a number 17 national ranking in 2009.
When she arrived a Drury, Funderburk made an immediate impact. She set Drury’s freshman scoring record, pouring in 477 points. She led the team in scoring during conference games, averaging 18.6 points in GLVC contests, and she ranked fifth in the league in scoring for the season. Funderburk was the GLVC Freshman of the Year in 2011 and was on the Midwest Region’s All-Freshman team. She helped the Lady Panthers to a 20-win season and an NCAA-II Tournament appearance that saw Drury reach the second round.
In her sophomore season, Funderburk matched the program’s single-game scoring record, pouring in 37 in a game against Missouri-St. Louis and broke Drury’s record for field goals in a game with 14. She earned First Team All-GLVC honors and was selected for the All-Midwest Region team for the first time in her career. Drury went 20-8 that season and picked up another NCAA-II Tournament bid.
By her junior season, Funderburk started to emerge as one of the program’s all-time greats. She broke the 1,000 career point barrier as a junior and cracked the program’s top 10 in career three-pointers made. Funderburk was an all-conference selection again and turned into one of the nation’s best free throw shooters, ranking 23rd in Division II after sinking 113 out of 131 tries.
In 2013-14, Funderburk helped Drury bounce back from a 14-13 campaign to a championship season the following year. The Lady Panthers went 27-4, 16-2 in the GLVC, and they blew out Wayne State (Mich.), 99-63, in the Midwest Regional Championship game to reach the Elite Eight. Funderburk had a career-high seven assists in that regional title game while going 6 for 11 from three-point range in a 21-point performance. She would also be named an all-conference selection for the fourth time in her career.
Bethanie Funderburk finished her career ranked second on the Lady Panthers all-time scoring list and her total of 1,716 points, still ranked fourth-best all-time a decade after her career ended. Her 212 career three-pointers were the third-most in team history and is now seventh-most going into the 2024-25 season. Funderburk set a program record for consecutive free throws made with 42, and when her career ended, she ranked in Drury’s top-10 in scoring, three-pointers, rebounds, steals and assists. Funderburk is one of just five players in program history to have been named an all-conference performer in all four years of her career.
After graduating from Drury in 2017 with a degree in Exercise and Sport Science, she picked up a Physical Therapy degree from Missouri State. She married Brad Keenan, and after living in Montana for six years, the family recently moved back to the region and now reside in Bella Vista, Arkansas, with their one-year-old daughter, Addie, and two dogs.
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