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Morningside will offer a variety of volleyball camps this June and July.
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Liz Sutherland, a 6-2 middle blocker from Sioux City who helped lead Sioux City Bishop Heelan Catholic High School to the semifinals of the 2004 and 2005 Iowa Class 3A state tournaments, will join the Morningside College volleyball team this fall as a transfer from Western Iowa Tech Community College announced Mustangs’ volleyball head coach Rick Pruett.
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Morningside College head volleyball coach Rick Pruett has announced the names of six high school recruits who will join the Mustangs next season.
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Morningside College volleyball head coach Rick Pruett has announced the names of three players who transferred to the college during the semester break.
The transfer additions are: Kristalyn Bielik, a 6-1 outsider hitter from Benito, Manitoba, Canada, who is a transfer from NCAA Division I University of Texas-Pan American; Erin Downing, a 5-11 outside hitter from Ottumwa, Iowa, who is a transfer from Indian Hills Community College; and Jessica Tjaden, a 5-8 setter from Julesburg, Colo., who is a transfer from NCAA Division I Georgia State University.
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Morningside College’s volleyball team set a school record for victories and made it’s first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance when the Mustangs posted a 37-6 record during the 2008 campaign. The Mustangs, who topped their previous victory mark of 35 triumphs in 1987, qualified for the national tourney by winning the Great Plains Athletic Conference’s (GPAC) post-season tournament. The Mustangs finished second in the GPAC’s regular season standings with a 14-2 league mark and were ranked 12th nationally in the final NAIA regular season poll. Morningside was the only team to defeat 2008 NAIA National Champion Fresno Pacific University this season when it upset the nation’s No. 1-ranked team 3-2 in pool play competition at the national tournament.
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 Kali Angerman, a 5-9 senior setter from Sioux City, received Morningside College’s Most Valuable Player award when the Mustangs’ volleyball team held their post-season awards banquet on Sunday.
Angerman dealt 1,641 assists this season and was the NAIA national leader with an average of 12.53 assists per game. She also topped the Mustangs with 54 ace serves and finished her career as Morningside’s all-time leader with career averages of 13.25 assists and 0.61 ace serves per game.
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Morningside College’s volleyball team set a school record for victories and made it’s first-ever NAIA National Tournament appearance when the Mustangs posted a 37-6 record during the 2008 campaign. The Mustangs, who topped their previous victory mark of 35 triumphs in 1987, qualified for the national tourney by winning the Great Plains Athletic Conference’s (GPAC) post-season tournament. The Mustangs finished second in the GPAC’s regular season standings with a 14-2 league mark and were ranked 12th nationally in the final NAIA regular season poll. Morningside was the only team to defeat 2008 NAIA National Champion Fresno Pacific University this season when it upset the nation’s No. 1-ranked team 3-2 in pool play competition at the national tournament.
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 Kali Angerman and Amber Jarzynka were both named to the 2008 Tachikara-NAIA All-America Volleyball Team.
Angerman, a 5-9 senior setter from Sioux City, was named to the All-America second-team, while Jarzynka, a 5-10 senior middle blocker from Bennington, Neb., was named to the All-America third-team for the second year in a row.
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After disappointing losing efforts in their first two matches that eliminated Morningside from advancing beyond the pool play level of the NAIA Volleyball National Tournament, the 12th-ranked Mustangs bowed out with one of their greatest victories in school history.
The Mustangs stormed back from a 2-1 set deficit to stun No. 1-ranked Fresno Pacific University 25-20, 16-25, 12-25, 25-18, 15-10 on Thursday in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena to hand the reigning NAIA National Champions their first loss of the season and only their second setback in the last two years.
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 Lindsey Siepker, a 5-10 junior setter from Laurens, Iowa, has been named a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete in the sport of volleyball.
Siepker has a 3.84 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and has a double major in graphic design and advertising.
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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 Kali Angerman, Amber Jarzynka, and Addi Radke were all named to the first team of the 2008 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
The three players have helped lead the Mustangs to a 36-4 record this season to set a school record for victories in a season. Morningside was the GPAC Post-Season Tournament champion and is one of 12 teams that have automatically advanced to the final site for the 2008 NAIA Volleyball National Championships to be held Dec. 2-6 in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.
Angerman and Jarzynka are both repeat selections from the 2007 All-GPAC first-team.
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 Morningside College is ranked 12th nationally in the final regular season NAIA volleyball poll released on Nov. 16.
The Mustangs, who won the GPAC Post-Season Tournament with a 3-0 sweep of regular season champion Northwestern in last Saturday's title match, have a 36-4 record and are one of 12 teams to automatically advance to the final site for the NAIA Volleyball National Championships to be held Dec. 2-6 at Sioux City's Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.
Morningside is one of four teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in this week’s NAIA Top 25. Northwestern College is ranked 10th, Dordt College is ranked 16th, and Doane College is ranked 22nd.
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The third time was the charm for the Morningside volleyball team when the Mustangs swept Northwestern College 25-19, 25-15, 25-18 in the championship match of the GPAC Post Season Tournament on Saturday in Orange City, Iowa.
The 12th-ranked Mustangs, who dropped both of their matches against No. 9 Northwestern during the regular season, will take a 36-4 record into the NAIA National Tournament.
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 Amber Jarzynka, a 5-10 senior middle blocker from Bennington, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Player of the Week after she led the Mustangs to a pair of victories last week.
Jarzynka averaged 4.67 kills per game and had a .595 hitting percentage to lead the Mustangs to a 3-0 sweep of city rival Briar Cliff University and a 3-0 sweep of Concordia University in the quarterfinals of the GPAC Post-Season Tournament.
She had 14 kills and a .478 hitting percentage to go along with four block assists in the Mustangs’ win against Briar Cliff. Jarzynka attacked at a .737 clip and had 14 kills and two block assists in the win against Concordia.
Morningside will take a 34-4 record into a GPAC Tournament semifinal round contest against Dordt College on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.
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