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Mustangs Compete At NAIA Cross Country Championships
Mustangs Have Six Cross Country NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Three Mustangs Receive All-GPAC Honors
Three Mustangs Qualify For NAIA Cross Country Championships
Nelson Earns Runner Of The Week Honors Again
Nelson Is GPAC Runner Of The Week
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Brian Gesink |
Kara Nelson |
Brian Gesink and Kara Nelson received the Most Valuable Runner awards when the Morningside College men’s and women’s cross country teams held their post-season banquet.
Gesink qualified for this year’s NAIA Cross Country Championships with a 15th place finish at the 2008 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Championships.
Nelson finished 45th in the women’s division at this year’s NAIA Cross Country Championships. She qualified with a third place finish at the GPAC Championships.
Most Consistent awards went to Yuichi Ichinose and Erin Lynn Keitges.
Most Improved awards went to Alex Weborg and Lisa Grosvenor.
 Three Morningside College athletes competed in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships held Saturday in Kenosha, Wis.
Erin Lynn Keitges, a junior from Jackson, Neb., and Kara Nelson, a sophomore from Cherokee, Iowa, finished 44th and 45th, respectively, in the women’s race with identical times of 18:25.8.
Brian Gesink, a sophomore from Sioux Center, Iowa, finished in 190th place in the men’s race with a time of 26:51.0.
Men's Results
Women's Results
Six Morningside College athletes have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of cross country.
Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes from the women’s cross country team are:
Erin Lynn Keitges, a junior from Jackson, Neb., who has a 3.94 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and is majoring in psychology counseling.
Lynzie Malone, a sophomore from Dunlap, Iowa, who has a 3.84 cumulative GPA and is majoring in American history and world history teaching.
Brooke Pottorff, a senior from Corning, Iowa, who has a 3.67 cumulative GPA and is majoring in nursing.
Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes from the men’s cross country team are:
Yuichi Ichinose, a junior from Tokyo, Japan, who has a 3.68 cumulative GPA and is majoring in nursing.
Chris Nordstrom, a senior from Minneapolis, Minn., who has a 3.62 cumulative GPA and is majoring in psychology counseling.
Todd Wolf, a sophomore from Corning, Iowa, who has a 3.71 cumulative GPA and is majoring in business administration with an emphasis in accounting.
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.
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Kara Nelson |
Erin Keitges |
Brian Gesink |
Morningside’s Kara Nelson, Erin Keitges, and Brian Gesink have been named to the 2008 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s and Men’s Cross Country Teams.
The top 15 runners in each race at the 2008 GPAC Cross Country Championships held in Hastings, Neb., were awarded All-GPAC honors.
Nelson, a sophomore from Cherokee, Iowa, finished third in the women’s 5K race with a time of 18:25.35.
Keitges, a junior from Jackson, Neb., finished sixth in the women’s race with a time of 19:02.61.
Gesink, a sophomore from Sioux Center, Iowa, finished 15th in the men’s 8K race with a time of 26:32.75.
All three Morningside harriers qualified for the 2008 NAIA Cross Country Championships to be held Nov. 22 in Kenosha, Wis.
Click here for the 2008 All-GPAC Cross Country Teams.
Kara Nelson and Erin Keitges each qualified for the upcoming NAIA Cross Country National Championships in the women's division and Brian Gesink qualified in the men's division with their individual finishes at Saturday’s Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Championships in Hastings, Neb.
Nelson, a sophomore from Cherokee, Iowa, finished third in the 5K race with a time of 18:25.35. Keitges, a junior from Jackson, Neb., finished sixth with a time of 19:02.61.
Nelson and Keitges led Morningside to a fifth place finish in the GPAC team standings. Morningside finished seventh in the men’s competition.
Gesink, a sophomore from Sioux Center, Iowa, finished 15th in the men's 8K race with a time of 26:32.75.
The NAIA Cross Country National Championships will be held Nov. 22 in Kenosha, Wis. Nelson will be going for the second year in a row, while Keitges is going to the NAIA Championships for the third year in a row. Gesink will make his first appearance at nationals.
Women's Results
Men's Results
 Kara Nelson, a sophomore from Cherokee, Iowa, is this week’s Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week.
Nelson ran the fastest time in Morningside women’s cross country history with an 18:29 at last Saturday’s South Dakota State University Classic in Brookings, S.D. Nelson finished 15th in the individual standings and was the first finisher from a non-NCAA Division I program.
She received GPAC Runner of the Week honors for the second time this season.
 Kara Nelson, a sophomore from Cherokee, Iowa, is this week’s Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week after her performance at last Saturday’s Grinnell College Les Duke Invitational in Grinnell, Iowa.
Nelson ran a time of 23:39 over the 3.728 mile course for the fastest cross country time in Morningside history. Nelson finished 13th overall in a field of 328 runners in one of the Midwest’s premier small college cross country events.
Morningside, ranked 23rd nationally in the NAIA, will compete in the Doane College Dean White Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 27, in Crete, Neb.
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