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 Morningside head coach Rick Pruett has announced the addition of 13 recruits who will join the Mustangs for the 2008 season.
The recruits will join a Morningside volleyball team that joined the ranks of the NAIA national powers during the 2007 season when the Mustangs posted a 33-4 record and were ranked 15th nationally in the final NAIA poll. The Mustangs set a school record for winning percentage at .892 and opened the campaign with 15 straight victories for the most consecutive wins in school history. Morningside was the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season champion with a 14-2 league mark as well as the GPAC’s post-season tournament champion.
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 Kali Angerman, a 5-9 junior setter from Sioux City, received the Morningside College volleyball team’s Most Valuable Player award at the Mustangs’ post-season awards banquet on Friday night.
Angerman set Morningside single-season records with 1,710 assists and 101 ace serves for school-record averages of 14.02 assists and 0.83 ace serves per game during the 2007 season.
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Morningside College’s volleyball team joined the ranks of the NAIA national powers during the 2007 season when the Mustangs posted a 33-4 record and were ranked 15th nationally in the final NAIA poll. The Mustangs set a school record for winning percentage at .892 and opened the campaign with 15 straight victories for the most consecutive wins in school history. Morningside was the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season champion with a 14-2 league mark as well as the GPAC’s post-season tournament champion.
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 Amber Jarzynka, a 5-11 junior middle blocker from Bennington, Neb., has been named to the third team of the 2007 NAIA All-America Volleyball Team.
Jarzynka hammered 522 kills for an average of 4.14 per game and set a new Morningside single-season record for hitting percentage at .420 this past season. Her 522 kills was the third highest single-season total in Morningside history and her average of 4.14 kills per game ranked fifth in the Mustangs’ record book.
Jarzynka becomes the third Morningside volleyball player to be named a NAIA All-American in volleyball. Jennifer Gruber was a second-team All-American and Brenna Larsen was a third-team All-American in 2002.
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Cara DeStigter, Megan Tuttle, Kristen Westergaard, and Katie Kotlik have been named 2007 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of volleyball.
Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher.
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Kali Angerman, a 5-9 junior setter from Sioux City, and Amber Jarzynka, a 5-11 junior middle blocker from Bennington, Neb., have been named to the 2007 NAIA All-Region III Volleyball Team.
Morningside posted a 33-4 record during the 2007 season and was the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season and post-season tournament champion.
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 Morningside College is ranked 15th nationally in the final NAIA regular season volleyball poll released on Nov. 14.
The Mustangs, the Great Plains Athletic Conference regular season and post-season tournament champions, will take a 33-2 record into this weekend’s NAIA Region III Championships slated for Friday and Saturday at Sioux Falls Christian High School in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Morningside is in its first season under head coach Rick Pruett, who inherited a team that had finished 18-17 in 2006.
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 Kali Angerman, a 5-9 junior setter from Sioux City, has been named the NAIA National Volleyball Setter of the Week for the second week in a row.
Angerman averaged 15.33 assists per game to go along with 19 digs and seven ace serves last week when the Mustangs swept Dordt College and Northwestern College by 3-0 scores en route to the Great Plains Athletic Conference’s post-season tournament championship.
Angerman received the NAIA National Setter of the Week honor for the third time this season.
Morningside has a 33-2 record and is the No. 3 seed for the NAIA Region IIII Championships to be held this Friday and Saturday at Sioux Falls, S.D.
Morningside College’s Amber Jarzynka, Kali Angerman, and Jericho Johnson are this week’s NAIA Region III and Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Player, Setter, and Libero of the Week after the Mustangs won the championship of last week’s GPAC Tournament with 3-0 wins against Dordt College on Wednesday and Northwestern College on Saturday.
Jarzynka, a 5-11 junior middle blocker from Bennington, Neb., averaged fives kills per game with a .303 hitting percentage.
Angerman, a 5-9 junior setter from Sioux City, averaged 15.33 assists per game to go along with 19 digs and seven ace serves.
Johnson, a 5-5 sophomore defensive specialist from Hastings, Neb., averaged 4.17 digs per game and completed 50 of 52 serve reception attempts for 96.2 percent.
Morningside has a 33-2 record and is the No. 3 seed for the NAIA Region IIII Championships to be held this Friday and Saturday at Sioux Falls, S.D.
Morningside’s volleyball team added the 2007 GPAC Tournament Championship to its list of accomplishments this season when the Mustangs swept Northwestern College 3-0 in Saturday’s title match in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.
The victory avenged a 3-1 loss the Mustangs had suffered against Northwestern in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center earlier this season on Oct. 19. The win was the 200th career coaching triumph for Rick Pruett, who is in his first season with the Mustangs.
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 Cara DeStigter, a junior outside hitter from Sioux City, has been named to the first-team of the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII College Division Volleyball Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
As a first-team all-district selection, DeStigter will go on the national ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team.
She has a 3.98 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with majors in chemistry and biology. She is averaging 3.41 kills and 2.54 digs per game and leads the Mustangs with 10 kill/dig double-doubles for the season.
Student-athletes must be of at least sophomore status and have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher to be eligible for ESPN The Magazine academic honors.
 Morningside's Kali Angerman, Cassie Cheever, and Amber Jarzynka were all named to the 2007 All-GPAC First-Team.
In addition, the Mustnags' Jericho Johnson received second-team All-GPAC laurels and Cara DeStigter was named to the All-GPAC honorable mention list.
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Photo courtesy of Jerry Mennenga, Sioux City Journal, copyright 2007. |
Morningside put the finishing touches on the 2007 GPAC volleyball championship with a come-from-behind 30-28, 24-30, 25-30, 33-31, 15-11 victory at city rival Briar Cliff on Tuesday.
The win enabled the Mustangs to finish the regular season with a 30-2 record, including a 14-2 mark in the GPAC for sole possession of first place. The Mustangs finished one victory ahead of runner-up Northwestern, which won its rivalry match at Dordt College on Tuesday to finish with a 13-3 record in the GPAC.
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Kali Angerman, a 5-9 junior setter from Sioux City, and Jericho Johnson, a 5-5 sophomore defensive specialist from Hastings, Neb., have been named both the NAIA Region III and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Setter and Libero of the Week after they led the Mustangs to a 2-0 record last week.
Angerman averaged 15.25 assists and 3.63 digs per game in the Mustangs’ two contests. She broke the Mustangs’ single-match record with 81 assists to go along with a season’s high 19 digs in the Mustangs’ 3-2 win at Briar Cliff on Oct. 30 when Morningside wrapped up the GPAC’s regular season championship.
Johnson averaged 9.13 digs per game in the Mustangs’ two triumphs. She had a school-record 57 digs in the Mustangs’ 3-2 win at Briar Cliff to shatter her previous record of 39 digs against Northwestern College earlier this season.
Angerman is averaging 14.06 assists and 3.08 digs per game and has a school-record 90 ace serves. With 1,519 assists, Angerman is 44 assists shy of the Morningside single-season record of 1,563 assists by Brenna Larsen in 2001. Johnson is averaging 6.34 digs per game and with 685 digs has already broken the former Morningside libero record of 559 digs in a season by B.J. Rohlena in 2005.
Angerman has been named the GPAC Setter of the Week six times and the NAIA Region III Setter of the Week five times this season. Johnson has been the NAIA Region III Libero of the Week three times.
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