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 “The journey for every solider starts here!”...the US Army & Morningside College Football introduces the 2009 ARMY STRONG-MUSTANG FOOTBALL CAMPS! Last year was a huge success connecting with nearly 1000 Siouxland area youth. This summer will be no different as the Mustangs and the U.S. Army team up to provide one of Siouxlands’ greatest football experiences. Don’t miss out, register now to be become ARMY STRONG!
For more information, contact Morningside assistant coach Josh Gehring at (712) 274-5326 or at gehring@morningside.edu.
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 Morningside is ranked fifth in the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Spring Poll.
The Mustangs posted a 10-2 record in 2008 and reached the second round of the NAIA Championship Series.
The Mustangs have a 48-12 record for a .800 winning percentage since the start of the 2004 season. Morningside has advanced to at least the quarterfinal round of the NAIA Playoffs each of the past four seasons.
Click here for the complete NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Spring Poll.
 Morningside’s Ian Gilworth, a 6-3, 215 lb. quarterback from Unionville, Mo., has been selected to play in the third annual College Fanz/Victory Sports Network NAIA Senior Classic football game slated for Saturday, April 25 at 1 p.m. in Platte City, Mo.
The game will pit 120 former NAIA football players in a showcase of talent and character. The game will be played at Platte County R3 High School’s Pirate Stadium.
Gilworth and Billy Bob Orsagh of Malone University are the quarterbacks on the American team’s roster.
Gilworth completed 221 of 327 pass attempts for 3,130 yards and 41 touchdowns and was the NAIA national leader with a passing efficiency rating of 188.1 during the 2008 season. He threw only two interceptions all season and finished the campaign with a streak of 164 consecutive pass attempts without an interception. Gilworth completed 67.6 percent of his pass attempts to set a school record and tied a Mustang single-season record with his 41 touchdown passes. His 3,130 yards passing was the third highest single-season passing yardage total in school history.
He threw a school-record seven touchdown passes in Morningside’s 63-13 Homecoming victory against Hastings College and in the Mustangs’ 65-27 victory against Baker University in the first round of the NAIA Playoffs. Gilworth set a Morningside single-game record for passing accuracy when he completed 10 of 12 attempts for 83.3 percent in a 62-0 win against Dordt College.
Gilworth passed for 6,753 yards and 77 touchdowns during his two-year Morningside career for the second highest totals in school history.
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 Morningside head football coach Steve Ryan has announced the names of 39 high school recruits who will join the Mustangs for the 2009 season.
The recruits will join a Morningside program that has posted a 48-12 record for an .800 winning percentage since the start of the 2004 season and has advanced to at least the quarterfinal round of the NAIA Championship Series each of the past four seasons. The Mustangs finished 10-2 in 2008 for their second highest victory total in school history, were ranked fifth nationally in the NAIA post-season poll, and made their fifth consecutive NAIA post-season appearance.
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 Morningside’s C.J. Gradoville, Beau Kildow, and Ryan Oetken have all been named to the first-team of the College Fanz Sports Network 2008 NAIA All-America Football Team.
In addition to their three first-team selections, the Mustangs placed Pat Dempsey and Ian Gilworth on the All-America second-team and Blake Anderson was named to the All-America honorable mention list.
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 Ian Gilworth, a 6-3, 210 lb. senior quarterback from Unionville, Mo., received the Most Valuable Player Award for Morningside College’s 2008 football season when the Mustangs held their post-season awards banquet.
Gilworth completed 221 of 327 pass attempts for 3,130 yards and 41 touchdowns and was the NAIA national leader with a passing efficiency rating of 188.1. He threw only two interceptions all season and finished the campaign with a streak of 164 consecutive pass attempts without an interception. Gilworth completed 67.6 percent of his pass attempts to set a school record and tied a Mustang single-season record with his 41 touchdown passes. His 3,130 yards passing was the third highest single-season passing yardage total in school history.
Gilworth threw a school-record seven touchdown passes in Morningside’s 63-13 Homecoming victory against Hastings College and in the Mustangs’ 65-27 victory against Baker University in the first round of the NAIA Playoffs. He set a Morningside single-game record for passing accuracy when he completed 10 of 12 attempts for 83.3 percent in a 62-0 win against Dordt College.
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 Morningside College is ranked fifth nationally in the post-season NAIA football poll released on Jan. 12.
The Mustangs finished the season with a record of 10-1 and reached the quarterfinals of the NAIA Championship Series, where they lost 34-31 against No. 3 Lindenwood University.
The Mustangs finished second behind NAIA National Champion University of Sioux Falls in the GPAC standings. The Cougars' 34-31 win against Morningside was their smallest victory margin of the season.
Click here for the 2008 NAIA Top 25.
Seven Morningside football players have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
NAIA Scholar-Athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.50 or higher.
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 Ryan Oetken, a 6-0, 180 lb. senior defensive back from Akron, Iowa, has been named to the 2008 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NAIA Coaches’ All-America Football Team.
Oetken ranked second nationally in the NAIA this season with nine interceptions for an average of 0.8 per game. His nine interceptions was the second highest single-season total in Morningside history and just one shy of Dwight Sann’s school-record total of 10 interceptions in 1969. Oetken tied the Mustangs’ single-game interception record when he had three pass thefts in a 31-7 victory against Dakota Wesleyan University on Sept. 6. Aside from his nine interceptions, Oetken also led the Mustangs with 10 pass breakups and ranked second on the team with two forced fumbles. He had 36 solo tackles and 32 assists for 68 total tackles, including 2.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage for a loss of four yards.
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 Morningside had a 10-2 record during the 2008 football season for its second highest victory total in school history. The Mustangs, who were ranked sixth nationally in the final NAIA regular season poll, made their fifth consecutive appearance in the NAIA National Playoffs, where they reached the NAIA Quarterfinals after a 65-27 first round victory against 13-ranked Baker University. Morningside finished second in the Great Plains Athletic Conference standings with a 9-1 league mark.
Morningside had one of the highest scoring offensive attacks in the nation with a scoring average of 48.0 points per game. The Mustangs, who scored a season’s high 73 points in a 73-8 win against city rival Briar Cliff, set school records with 77 touchdowns and 576 points to break the former Mustang single-season marks of 76 touchdowns and 550 points in 2005. Morningside tied a school record with 10 touchdowns in the win against Briar Cliff to match a 10-touchdown performance in a 73-0 win against Doane last season.
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 Morningside’s hopes of moving on in the 2008 NAIA Football Championship Series were dashed when Lindenwood’s Halley Ferrell kicked a game-winning 25-yard field goal with three seconds left to defeat the Mustangs 34-31 in Saturday’s quarterfinal round action at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
Ferrell, who had missed three field goal attempts earlier in the contest, sent the seventh-ranked Lions into next Saturday’s semifinals with an 11-1 record. Sixth-ranked Morningside, which bowed out in the quarterfinals for the third year in a row, closed the books on a 10-2 season.
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 Morningside simply had too much offense for Baker to handle when the sixth-ranked Mustangs rolled to a 65-27 triumph over the 13th-ranked Wildcats in Saturday’s opening round matchup in the 2008 NAIA Football Championship Series.
The host Mustangs amassed 565 yards total offense, including 384 yards through the air, as they climbed to 10-1 on the season and advanced to the NAIA Quarterfinals. The NAIA will announce the quarterfinal round pairings on Sunday.
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 Ian Gilworth, a 6-3, 210 lb. senior quarterback from Unionville, Mo., has been named the 2008 Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Offensive Player of the Year to highlight the Mustangs’ named to the All-GPAC Football Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Gilworth, the NAIA national leader in passing efficiency with a rating of 182.3, has completed 171 of 265 pass attempts (64.5 percent) for 2,426 yards and 34 touchdowns. He has thrown only two interceptions all season and his 2,426 yards passing is the fifth highest single-season total in Morningside history.
His exploits helped lead Morningside to a 9-1 regular season record and a second place finish in the GPAC. Morningside will take a No. 6 national ranking into a first round game against Baker University in the NAIA Championship Series this Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
Gilworth is the third Morningside football player to earn GPAC Player of the Year honors in the last four years. Former quarterback Craig Fobbe was the GPAC Offensive Player of the Year in 2005 and former defensive back Chad Hustedt was the GPAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2007.
Gilworth is joined by eight Mustang teammates on the All-GPAC first-team.
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Advance tickets for this Saturday’s game between Morningside College and Baker University in the 2008 NAIA Football Championship Series may be purchased this Wednesday through Friday in the Hindman-Hobbs Center, 3501 Peters Avenue.
Tickets may be purchased from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. After 1 p.m. Friday, all tickets must be purchased at the gate on the day of the game. Saturday’s game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Elwood Olsen Stadium. Gates will open at noon.
Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for students in grades K-12 and college students with an id.
Regular season passes and student ids will not grant admission to games in the 2008 NAIA Football Championship Series.
Fourth-ranked Morningside suffered a 34-31 loss against No. 2 Sioux Falls in Saturday's showdown for the 2008 GPAC championship.
The Mustangs finished the regular season with a 9-1 record and will advance to the NAIA National Playoffs. The opening round pairings will be announced on Sunday.
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 C.J. Gradoville, a 6-1, 180 lb. kicker from Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Special Teams Player of the Week after his performance in the Mustangs’ 73-8 victory against Briar Cliff University last Saturday.
Gradoville, who received the award for the third time this season, kicked a 30-yard field goal and converted all 10 of his PAT attempts to help the Mustangs achieve their highest scoring total since a 73-0 triumph against Doane College in their 2007 opener.
He is a perfect 10-for-10 on field goal attempts this season with a long of 39 yards and is 59-for-60 on PAT attempts. Gradoville is the Mustangs’ scoring leader with 89 points and is the NAIA national leader in kick scoring with an average of 9.9 points per game.
With 10 field goals, Gradoville is two shy of his school-record total of 12 field goals in a season he set last year. He is Morningside’s all-time leader with 114 career PATs. Gradoville made his first 67 PAT attempts and has converted 114 of 115 PAT attempts during his collegiate career.
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Beau Kildow and Ryan Oetken have been named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine College Division Football Academic All-District VII First-Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
As first-team all-district selections, their names will be placed on the ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team. Kildow and Oetken each received all-district second-team honors last season.
Kildow, a 5-10, 170 lb. junior wide receiver from Omaha, Neb., has a 4.00 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and is majoring in chemistry and biology.
Kildow has caught 34 passes for 495 yards and eight touchdowns and is averaging 14.6 yards per catch. He is also the Mustangs’ top kick return specialist with averages of 11.8 yards on punt returns and 25.7 yards on kickoff returns.
Oetken, a 6-0, 180 lb. senior defensive back from Akron, Iowa, has a 3.87 cumulative GPA and is majoring in biology and chemistry.
Oetken is the current NAIA national leader with eight interceptions for an average of 1.00 interceptions per game. He also leads the Mustangs with six pass breakups and two forced fumbles to go along with 21 solos tackles and 20 assisted tackles. Oetken is Morningside’s all-time leader with 21 career interceptions.
Student-athletes must be of at least sophomore status and have a minimum GPA of 3.30 in order to be eligible for ESPN The Magazine academic honors.
 Ian Gilworth, a 6-3, 210 lb. senior quarterback from Unionville, Mo., is the NAIA National Offensive Player of the Week following his performance in the Mustangs’ 63-13 Homecoming victory against Hastings College last Saturday.
He also received the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Offensive Player of the Week award for the second week in a row.
Gilworth passed for 309 yards and a school-record seven touchdowns in the contest to break the Mustangs’ former record of six touchdown passes in a game by Craig Fobbe in a 58-7 win against Saint Ambrose University in the 2005 NAIA National Playoffs.
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 Morningside was tabbed for a second place finish in the GPAC Football Coaches' Pre-Season Poll at the ninth annual GPAC Football Media Day held Monday, Aug. 4, at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln, Neb.
The Mustangs, coming off a 9-3 finish in 2007, received 115 points in the poll and garnered five of a possible 12 first place votes. Sioux Falls received the other seven first place votes and topped the pre-season poll with 117 points.
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