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Morningside women’s track & field head coach Dave Nash has announced the names of two sprinters who will join the Mustangs next season.
The recruits are Carrie Cale of Sioux City, who will join the Mustangs with senior eligibility as a transfer from Iowa Central Community College, and Amber Woodford, a freshman from Storm Lake, Iowa.
Cale is a 2004 Sioux City North High School graduate who was on the track & field team at the University of South Dakota earlier in her career. This past indoor season she ran the 400-meter leg for Iowa Central’s national championship distance medley relay team and helped lead the Tritons to an eighth place finish in the 1600-meter relay at the junior college national meet.
Cale was a four-year state qualifier during her prep career at North and helped lead the Stars to sixth place finishes in the 1600-meter and distance medley relays at the Class 3A state meet as a junior. She was a Class 4A state qualifier in the 200-meters, 400-meters, and 1600-meter relay as a senior, a 3A state qualifier in the 400-meters and 1600-meter relay as a sophomore, and a 3A state qualifier in the 800-meter and 1600-meter relays as a freshman.
Woodford is a 2008 graduate of Storm Lake High School, where she ran the second leg for the school’s Class 3A state championship sprint medley relay team this past season. Woodford also helped lead Storm Lake to a second place finish in the 400-meter relay, placed fifth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.91 seconds, and was a state qualifier in the 100-meters.
As a junior she placed fourth in the 200-meters with a time of 26.39 and helped lead Storm Lake to a third place finish in the 800-meter relay and a fifth place finish in the sprint medley relay at the Class 3A state meet. She was also a state qualifier in the 400-meter relay.
Woodford helped lead Storm Lake to an eighth place finish in the 800-meter relay at the Class 3A state meet and was also a state qualifier in the 1600-meter relay and the sprint medley relay as a sophomore. She was a Class 3A state qualifier in the 200-meters and the sprint medley relay as a freshman.
 Five Morningside College athletic teams are among over 750 teams to be named 2007-08 Scholar Teams by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
NAIA Scholar Teams must have at least a 3.00 team grade point average (GPA) during the 2007-08 academic year.
Morningside’s women’s indoor track & field team led the way with a team GPA of 3.53. The Mustangs’ women’s outdoor track& field team had a team GPA of 3.50, the women’s cross country team had a GPA of 3.41, the women’s tennis team had a GPA of 3.35, and the softball team had a GPA of 3.26.
Dave Nash is the head coach of the Mustangs’ women’s track & field and cross country teams. The head coach of the women’s tennis team is Larry Mason and the head coach of the softball team is Jessica Jones-Sitzmann.
Click here for the complete list of 2007-08 NAIA Scholar Teams.
A.G. Kruger, a 2002 Morningside graduate, has qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Kruger, who will compete in the men's hammer throw, also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Kruger qualified for this year's Olympic Games by winning the hammer throw at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., with a distance of 248 feet, 9 inches. His best throw this year traveled 258-2.
Kruger was a five-time All-American during his Morningside career and the 2001 NCAA II Hammer Throw National Champion.
Aside from his exploits in the hammer throw, discus, and weight throw, Kruger was also the starting tight end for the Mustangs' football team.
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