Volleyball

Morningside will host several volleyball camps during the months of June and July. The camps will be held in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center/Allee Gymnasium, 3415 Peters Avenue, on the Morningside campus.

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Morningside head volleyball coach Sara Horn has announced the names of 15 additions that will join the Mustangs next season.

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Morningside College’s volleyball team posted a 17-16 record and made its fourth NAIA National Tournament appearance in the last five years during the 2012 volleyball season.Morningside has a 162-60 record over the last six seasons for a .730 winning percentage. Morningside’s 17-16 record extended its streak to 12 consecutive seasons with a winning record.

The Mustangs broke three school records during the 2012 season and all three centered around the blocking ability of senior Briana Schaeuble.

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Two Morningside athletes have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of volleyball.

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Morningside was eliminated from the NAIA Volleyball National Championship tournament after a 29-27, 25-21, 25-14 loss against 13th-ranked Georgetown College in Thursday’s pool play finale.

Georgetown and undefeated Concordia University of California will move on from Pool A to this weekend’s single-elimination bracket tourney. A win against Georgetown would have advanced the Mustangs into the single-elimination bracket for the first time in their four national tournament appearances, but the setback left the Mustangs in third place in their four-team pool with a 1-2 record. Morningside finished the season with a record of 17-16 to extend its streak to 12 consecutive winning seasons.

The Mustangs started strong against Georgetown and built an early 9-4 lead in the first set when seven of their first 16 attack attempts resulted in kills. Maggie Vondrak had three of the early kills, while Gabi French and Anastasia Ott each had two. Briana Schaeuble then reeled off four kills to lead a spurt that pushed the Mustangs’ lead to 17-10.

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Morningside battled back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat 12th-ranked Indiana University East 25-23, 13-25, 25-27, 25-20, 16-14 in Wednesday’s pool play action at the NAIA Volleyball National Championship tournament in Sioux City.

The victory evened the Mustangs’ pool play record at 1-1 and put them in a position to advance to the weekend’s single-elimination bracket if they can knock off No. 13 Georgetown College in Thursday’s pool play finale scheduled for 5:45 p.m.

The Mustangs slammed a season’s high 73 kills in the victory, including a team-high 18 terminations from Briana Schaeuble. Schaeuble was one of four Mustangs to amass a double figure kill total. Gabi French, Anastasia Ott, and Maggie Vondrak joined Schaeuble in double figures with 16, 15, and 15 kills, respectively.

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No. 1-ranked Concordia University flexed its muscle with a 25-10, 25-17, 25-13 victory over Morningside in the teams’ pool play opener Tuesday night in the NAIA Volleyball National Championship tournament at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

The top-ranked Eagles, last year’s national runner-up, remained undefeated and climbed to 33-0 on the season. The loss dropped Morningside to 16-15 going into a Wednesday 8 p.m. match against No. 12 Indiana University East (44-4). The top two teams from each pool will advance to a single-elimination bracket to be held Friday and Saturday.

Concordia pounded 40 kills in the three-set match en route to a solid .327 hitting percentage, while the Mustangs had more attack errors (23) than kills (22) and finished with a -.011 hitting percentage.

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Briana Schaeuble, a 6-2 senior middle blocker from Kingsley, Iowa, has been named to the 2012 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.

Schaeuble, a repeat first-team selection from last year, has 13 solo blocks and 148 block assists for an average of 1.42 blocks per game to rank among the NAIA national leaders. Schaeuble leads the Mustangs with a .246 hitting percentage and is second on the team with 272 kills for an average of 2.41 kills per game.

She has 13 double figure kill performances, including a season’s high 16 kills against St. Olaf College. Schaeuble set a school record for a three-game match when she had 11 block assists in a 3-0 victory against Jamestown College on Aug. 24.

Morningside’s Grace Chvatal has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Libero of the Week for Oct. 29 to Nov. 4.

Chvatal, a 5-6 freshman defensive specialist from Wahoo, Neb., averaged 2.92 digs per game and completed 85 of 86 serve reception attempts for 98.8 percent to help the Mustangs win two of their three matches last week, including a 3-2 upset triumph on the road at 22nd-ranked Midland University. She had 14 digs and two ace serves in the win against Midland. Earlier in the week she had 11 digs in the Mustangs’ 3-0 sweep of Dordt College.

Morningside finished the regular season with a 16-13 record and will face Doane College in the quarterfinal round of the GPAC Post-Season Tournament.

Morningside is tabbed for a fifth place finish in the GPAC Volleyball Coaches Pre-Seasn Poll.

The Mustangs return 10 letter winners, including three starters, from a team that posted a 26-9 record last season and won the GPAC regular season and post-season tournament championships en route to their third NAIA National Tournament appearance in the last four years.

Morningside was picked eighth in last year’s GPAC Coaches Pre-Season Poll before going on to win the league title.

The Mustangs will open the 2012 season at the Northwestern College Red Raider Classic on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 24 and 25, in Orange City, Iowa.