2011-12tennisnews

Morningside College’s women’s tennis team broke seven school records and tied another record during the 2011-12 season.

The Mustangs posted a 14-7 record to shatter their former record of eight victories in a season originally set in 1998 and matched by their 2010-11 team.

Morningside had six individual records fall and Mary Horton and Shannon Schroeder were involved in five of them.

Horton, a junior from Sioux City, and Schroeder, a senior from Cherokee, Iowa, combined for a 15-6 record as doubles partners to break the former Morningside single-season record of 10 doubles wins by Anouchka Ganivet and Amy Stiles in 1998. Horton and Schroeder had a .714 victory percentage to break the former Morningside doubles team career victory rate of .708 set by Karla Engbard and Tracy Johnson, who had a 17-7 record over the 1997 and 1998 campaigns.

Aside from her 15-6 record in doubles, Horton also compiled an 11-8 record in singles to finish the campaign with 26 combined victories to break the former Morningside standard of 23 combined wins in a season by Ganivet in 1998.

Schroeder was the Mustangs’ most consistent singles winner with a 9-3 mark for a .750 victory rate. Schroeder finished with school-record totals of 29 doubles victories and 46 combined victories during her career to shatter the former Morningside records of 17 doubles wins by Amy Stiles, Engbard, and Johnson and 32 combined wins by Engbard, all established from 1997-98.

Kassie Hein, a senior from Milford, Iowa, was also a Morningside record breaker this season. Hein had a 10-10 singles record in 2011-12 to raise her career total to a school-record 25 victories to break the previous Morningside standard of 21 career singles wins by Marissa Graham set from 2008-10.

Hein finished her career with 45 combined wins for the second highest total in Morningside history.

Megan Solberg, a freshman from Mitchell, S.D., had a 13-6 singles record to lead the Mustangs in singles victories. Her 13 singles triumphs tied the Morningside single-season record previously set by Ganivet in 1998.

Morningside went 10-2 over its final 12 duals of the season en route to its 14-7 record. The Mustangs finished second in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) standings with a 6-1 league mark and were the runner-up at the post-season GPAC Tennis Championships.

Morningside College’s men’s tennis team broke three school records and tied another record during the 2011-12 season.

The Mustangs finished with a 9-7 record to break the former school record of seven wins in a season set in 1973.

Gustav Hollnagel and Reid Rosen were the Mustangs’ individual record breakers.

Hollnagel, a junior from Dresden, Germany, was the Mustangs’ top winner with an 11-4 singles record and an identical 11-4 mark as a doubles competitor. His 22 combined victories broke the former Morningside single-season standard of 21 combined wins by Austin Grundy last season. Hollnagel’s 11 doubles victories tied a Morningside single-season record previously set by both Larry Mason and Russ McComsey in 1973.

Hollnagel’s 11 singles victories was the second highest single-season total in Morningside history. He moved into second place on Morningside’s career singles victory list with a record of 29-19. Hollnagel, who has a 21-16 career doubles record, is third in the Mustangs’ record book with 50 career combined wins.

Rosen, a junior from Fairmont, Minn., had a 9-4 record in singles and a 10-4 mark in doubles. Rosen raised his career doubles record to 29-18 to break the former Morningside record of 27 career doubles victories set by Mason from 1970-73 and by Nabil Sorathia from 2005-08. Rosen, who has a 21-25 career singles record, is tied with Hollnagel for third place in Morningside history with 50 career combined victories.

Hollnagel and Rosen had a 10-4 record as doubles partners to finish one win shy of a school record.

The Mustangs had two other big singles winners in Austin Grundy and Dane Larson.

Grundy, a sophomore from Sioux City, had a 10-3 record to raise his career mark to 23-8.

Larson, a senior from Sioux City, had a 9-2 singles record and finished his career with 41 career combined wins for the seventh highest total in Morningside history.

Morningside went 6-2 over its final eight duals of the 2011-12 season to finish with a 9-7 record for its first winning season since a 6-5 record in 2008. The Mustangs finished third in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) standings with a 4-2 league mark and were the runner-up at the post-season GPAC Championships.

Gustav Hollnagel and Reid Rosen have been named 2011-12 Capital One College Division Men’s At-Large First-Team Academic All-Americans as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

In addition to their pair of first-team selections on the Men's At-Large Academic All-America Team, the Mustangs' Mary Horton was named to the second team of the College Division Women's At-Large ACademic All-America Team.

Hollnagel, a junior from Dresden, Germany, has a 3.99 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a double major in international affairs and industrial and organizational psychology. He had an 11-4 record in singles and an 11-4 mark in doubles this past season en route to All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) honors in both singles and doubles. Hollnagel set a Morningside single-season record with his 22 combined victories to break the former Mustang standard of 21 combined wins by Austin Grundy in 2010-11. His 11 doubles triumphs tied a Morningside single-season mark set by Larry Mason and Russ McComsey in 1973.

Rosen, a junior from Fairmont, Minn., has a 3.80 cumulative GPA with a major in business administration. He had a 9-4 singles record and a 10-4 doubles record this past season. Rosen was named to the All-GPAC team in both singles and doubles. Rosen has a 29-18 career record in doubles competition to break the former Morningside career standard of 27 doubles wins by Mason from 1970-73 and Nabil Sabathia from 2005-08.

Horton, a junior from Sioux City, has a 3.99 cumulative GPA with a major in elementary education. She had an 11-8 record in singles and a 15-6 record in doubles this season and was named to the All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Team in both categories.

Athletes must be of at least sophomore academic status, be a starter or significant reserve, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher to be eligible for Capital One Academic All-America honors.

Click here for the complete 2011-12 Capital One College Division Men's and Women's At-Large Academic All-America Teams.

Four Morningside College tennis players have been named 2012 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

The Mustangs’ Daktronics-NAIA Tennis Scholar-Athletes are:

Gustav Hollnagel, a junior from Dresden, Germany, who has a 3.99 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a double major in international affairs and industrial and organizational psychology.

Mary Horton, a junior from Sioux City who has a 3.99 cumulative GPA with a major in elementary education.

Reid Rosen, a junior from Fairmont, Minn., who has a 3.80 cumulative GPA with a major in business administration.

Shannon Schroeder, a senior from Cherokee, Iowa, who has a 3.84 cumulative GPA with majors in political science and Spanish.

Horton and Schroeder were also Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes last year.

Student-athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a minimum GPA of 3.50 in order to be eligible for Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.

Click here for the complete list of 2012 Daktronics-NAIA Men's Tennis Scholar-Athletes.

Click here for the complete list of 2012 Daktronics-NAIA Women's Tennis Scholar-Athletes.

Morningside has 10 singles and doubles selections on the 2012 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s and Women’s Tennis Teams as selected by the league’s head coaches.

In addition, the Mustangs’ Larry Mason was named the 2012 GPAC Hauff Mid-America Sports Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year. Mason guided the Mustangs to a 14-7 record this season to set a school record for victories. The Mustangs, who shattered the former record of eight wins by the college’s 1998 and 2010-11 teams, finished second in the GPAC regular season standings with a 6-1 league record and were also the runner-up at last weekend’s GPAC Tennis Championships.

Morningside had five singles players named to the All-GPAC Women’s Tennis Team with Audri Swisher at No. 1 singles; Amanda Przymus at No. 2 singles; Mary Horton at No. 3 singles; Megan Solberg at No. 5 singles; and Shannon Schroeder at No. 6 singles.

Swisher, a freshman from Spearfish, S.D., had an 8-12 record this season.

Przymus, a sophomore from Rapid City, S.D., had a 12-9 record. She went 9-1 over her final 10 matches of the season.

Horton, a junior from Sioux City, had an 11-8 record.

Solberg, a freshman from Mitchell, S.D., led the Mustangs in victories with a 13-6 record to tie the school record of 13 wins in a season previously set by Anouchka Ganivet in 1998.

Schroeder, a senior from Cherokee, Iowa, had a 9-3 record for the Mustangs’ highest winning percentage at .750.

In addition to making the All-GPAC Team in singles, the Mustangs’ Horton and Schroeder also made the all-league team at No. 2 doubles after they posted a 15-6 record to break the former school record of 10 wins in a season set by Ganivet and Amy Stiles in 1998.

Morningside’s Austin Grundy was named to the All-GPAC Men’s Tennis Team at No. 1 singles and was joined on the honor squad by Reid Rosen at No. 2 singles and Gustav Hollnagel at No. 3 singles. Rosen and Hollnagel were also named to the All-GPAC Team at No. 2 doubles.

Grundy, a sophomore from Sioux City, had a 10-3 singles record this season. He was a repeat selection from last year’s All-GPAC Team.

Rosen, a junior from Fairmont, Minn., was named to the All-GPAC Team for the third year in a row. He had a 9-4 singles record this season.

Hollnagel, a junior from Dresden, Germany, had an 11-4 singles record to lead the Mustangs in victories.

Rosen and Hollnagel combined for a 10-4 record for one of the top doubles marks in Morningside history. They finished one victory shy of the school record of 11 doubles wins in a season set by Mason and Russ McComsey in 1973.

Dane Larson, a senior from Sioux City, was named to the All-GPAC singles honorable mention list. Larson had a 9-2 record for the Mustangs’ top winning percentage at .818.

Morningside’s men’s tennis team posted a 9-7 record during the 2011-12 campaign to break the former school record of seven wins in a season set in 1973. The Mustangs finished third in the GPAC regular season standings with a 4-2 league mark and were the runner-up at the GPAC Tennis Championships.

Click here for the complete 2012 All-GPAC Men's Tennis Team

Click here for the complete 2012 All-GPAC Women's Tennis Team

Morningside’s bid for a berth in the upcoming NAIA Men’s and Women’s Tennis National Championships came to an end when both Mustang teams lost in Saturday’s finals of the GPAC Tennis Championships in Fremont, Neb.

The Mustangs lost 5-0 against Hastings in the GPAC men’s tennis championship match and lost 5-0 against Nebraska Wesleyan in the women’s title match.

Morningside lost 6-3 against Hastings and 5-4 against Nebraska Wesleyan when the teams met during the regular season.

The Morningside men finished the season with a 9-7 record, while the Mustang women closed out a 14-7 campaign.

Morningside’s men’s and women’s tennis teams each advanced to Saturday’s GPAC Tennis Championship finals with victories in Friday’s semifinals at the GPAC Tennis Championships in Fremont, Neb.

The Mustang men upset Doane 5-2 to avenge a 6-3 loss against the Tigers during the regular season. Morningside, which won by forfeit against Briar Cliff earlier in the day in the quarterfinals, will face Hastings in Saturday’s men’s championship match at 10 a.m.

Morningside defeated Northwestern 5-2 in the women’s semifinals and will face Nebraska Wesleyan in Saturday’s championship match at 10 a.m.

The championship winners will each advance to the 2012 NAIA Tennis National Championships.

The Morningside men will take a 9-6 record into Saturday’s championship match. The Mustangs won two of the three doubles matches and added three victories in the singles flights before the dual was stopped.

Reid Rosen trounced Sam Tipton by a 6-0, 6-1 margin at No. 2 singles, while Gustav Hollnagel also dominated his match with a 6-2, 6-0 waltz past Chance Hohensee in the third flight. The Mustangs’ other singles triumph came from Alex Meckelburg, who won by injury default in the sixth flight.

The Mustang women went 2-1 in doubles and claimed three of the four matches that were completed in the singles flights in their win against Northwestern.

The Mustang’s most lopsided singles winner was Mary Horton, who dropped only two games in a 6-1, 6-1 triumph against Kellie Korver in the third flight.

Morningside’s other singles victors were Amanda Przyumus by a 6-1, 6-3 verdict against Terry Odera in the second flight and Kassie Hein with a 6-3, 6-2 win in the fourth flight against Jami Koens.

The win by Przymus extended her winning streak to nine matches.

As a team, the Mustangs have nine victories in their last 10 matches and will take a 14-6 record into Saturday’s title match.

Amanda Przymus, a sophomore from Rapid City, S.D., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Tennis Player of the Week for April 23-29.

Przymus won all three of her singles matches last week and came back from an opening set defeat in all three victories. She defeated Terry Odera 1-6, 6-3,10-8 in Morningside’s 6-3 win against Northwestern College, topped Haley Henrichs 3-6, 6-1, 10-6 in the Mustangs’ 9-0 victory against Buena Vista University, and scored a 2-6, 6-2, 10-4 triumph against Ericka Dickmeyer when Morningside lost 5-4 against Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Przymus has an eight-match winning streak and will take an 11-8 record into this weekend’s GPAC Tennis Championships in Fremont, Neb.

Austin Grundy, a sophomore from Sioux City, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Tennis Player of the Week for April 16-22.

Grundy went 3-0 last week to improve his record at No. 1 singles to 10-2. He won all three of his matches in straight sets.

He opened the week with a 6-0, 6-1 triumph against Danny Stanek when Morningside blanked Briar Cliff University 9-0 on April 16. Grundy defeated Vinny Banda 6-1, 6-3 in a 6-3 Morningside loss against Hastings College on April 21 and won a 7-5, 6-2 verdict against Jeremy Jank to help the Mustangs defeat Concordia University 5-4 on April 21.

Morningside men’s and women’s tennis head coach Larry Mason has announced the names of two high school recruits who will join the Mustangs next year.

The recruits are Katie Hanson of Saint Peter, Minn., and Hunter Renn of Mason City, Iowa.

Hanson is a senior at Saint Peter High School, where she was a three-time All-South Central Conference performer. She compiled a 73-31 singles record in a four-year varsity career. Hanson went 24-3 at No. 2 singles in her senior campaign to help lead Saint Peter to a 16-3 record in duals. She earned All-South Central Conference (SCC) honors and finished third at her Class 2A Section Tournament.

Hanson also played No. 2 singles as a junior when she posted a 23-7 record and finished in the top eight in the Class 2A singles division of the Minnesota state tournament. She had an 11-13 record at No. 2 singles as a sophomore and a 15-8 record at No. 4 singles as a freshman.

Renn is a senior at Mason City High School, where he will graduate as a four-year varsity letterwinner. Renn has career records of 16-23 in singles and 15-18 in doubles while competing in a rugged Central Iowa Metropolitan League that is considered one of Iowa’s premier tennis leagues and has produced the Class 2A state champion each of the past three years.

Renn had a 3-4 record while splitting time between No. 1 and No. 2 singles last season. He had a 9-7 record in doubles and combined with Matt Merry to win a Class 2A district doubles championship to advance to the state tournament, where they placed sixth. Renn and Merry won their opening round match at the state tournament before they lost against eventual state champion Des Moines Roosevelt in the quarterfinals.

Renn had a 7-10 singles record and a 3-6 doubles record as a sophomore and a 5-9 singles record and 2-5 doubles record as a freshman.