Chelsea Poppens has put herself among some elite company in not only ISU women’s basketball history, but also in Big 12 Conference women’s basketball history.

With ISU’s 69-50 win at Kansas State on Feb. 23, the senior forward scored 14 points but notably grabbed 11 rebounds to push her to more than 1,000 career rebounds.

Poppens is now just the second ISU player and the 14th Big 12 player to surpass 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career. She joined the 1,000-point club earlier this season on Nov. 11 in an 84-65 win against Western Illinois.

“I think when you start looking at people that are doing more than one thing, scoring a lot of points is great, but when you’re doing more than one thing, it means you are doing things besides doing stuff for yourself,” said ISU coach Bill Fennelly of Poppens’ accomplishment. “When you think about the level of play in this league, we’ve had some pretty good players here, and she’s only the second one that’s every done it.”

Poppens’ performance against Kansas State was her sixth double-double of the season. The Aplington, Iowa, native and former Cyclone Angie Welle is the only other player in team history to have tallied more than 1,000 career points and rebounds.

The senior said while it was cool to join that limited group of people for that accomplishment, she never really expected to reach that mark in her career. Poppens said when she first came to Iowa State, she never set benchmark numbers for herself.

“I just came in wanting to get better and wanting to contribute to the team and do my part and just have fun in the process,” Poppens said. “The last game, I didn’t even know I needed six more rebounds to [pass 1,000].”

Center and fellow senior Anna Prins, who has played alongside Poppens since the two arrived to Iowa State as freshmen in 2009, said with a laugh Poppens didn’t really let on to the rest of the team to her excitement about her accomplishment and has been humble about it. That’s not to say Prins won’t do a little bragging for her.

“Once coached announced it to us on the bus ride back from K-State, we were all really happy for her,” Prins said. “Just to be able to play alongside her for four years, just to say I played with someone who accomplished that, is really special.”

Poppens will have three more regular season games to continue to add to her career rebounding total with two of the three being at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones host Kansas on Wednesday night with tipoff at 7 p.m.