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The Morningside women's basketball team will host a golf tournament fundraiser on Aug. 14.
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Morningside is offering summer remote camps throughout the tri-state area.
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Morningside head coach Jamie Sale has announced the names of 11 high school recruits who will join the Mustangs next season.
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Autumn Bartel and Dani Gass were named Morningside College’s Co-Most Valuable Players when the Mustangs held their women’s basketball awards banquet on Saturday at the Marina Inn in South Sioux City, Neb.
Bartel, a 5-9 senior guard from Cherokee, Iowa, also received the Mustangs’ Defensive Most Valuable Player Award, while Gass, a 5-10 senior guard from Sioux City, also received the Mustangs’ Offensive Most Valuable Player Award. Both players were first-team NAIA Division II All-Americans this past season. Gass was also this year’s NAIA Division II National Player of the Year, while Bartel was named the MVP of the 2009 NAIA Division II National Tournament.
Their exploits helped the Mustangs post a 38-0 record during the 2008-09 season and become only the second team in history to win the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship with an undefeated record after a 68-63 win against Hastings College in the championship game.
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Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 guard from Sioux City who helped lead Sioux City North High School to Iowa’s 2007 Class 4A state championship, will transfer to Morningside College and continue her career with the NAIA Division II National Champion Mustangs next year announced Morningside women’s basketball head coach Jamie Sale.
Worden, who will be a junior next season, will transfer from Christian Brothers University, a NCAA Division II institution in Memphis, Tenn. She previously played at NCAA Division I Southern Illinois University, where she averaged 21.6 minutes per game as a freshman.
“She is a great player who can have make an immediate impact in our program,” said Sale, who was named the 2009 NAIA Division II National Coach of the Year after he guided Morningside to the NAIA II National Championship to cap a perfect 38-0 season. It was the Mustangs’ third NAIA II National Championship in the last six years.
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The National Champion Mustangs met Iowa Governor Chet Culver during a tour of the State Capitol Building on April 7 in Des Moines. During the visit the Mustangs were recognized by both the Iowa Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives.
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 Morningside’s women’s basketball team broke eight school records and tied another school record during the 2008-09 season en route to a perfect 38-0 season and their third NAIA Division II National Championship of the decade.
The Mustangs’ 38 victories and their perfect winning percentage were the best single-season totals in school history, breaking the former Morningside single-season standards by the 2004-05 NAIA II National Championship team, which had a 35-3 record for a winning percentage of 92.1 percent.
Morningside will open the 2009-10 season riding a pair of school-record winning streaks. The Mustangs’ 38 consecutive victories this season topped the previous record of 27 consecutive wins from Nov. 17 to March 1 of last season. Morningside has won 22 consecutive games away from home to top its previous record of 17 straight wins from Nov. 20 to March 15 of last season. Morningside will also take a 55-game regular season winning streak into next season.
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Morningside put the finishing touches on a storybook season when the Mustangs won the NAIA Division II National Championship with a 68-63 victory against GPAC rival Hastings College in Tuesday’s NAIA II title game in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena in a marquee matchup that pitted two teams that had combined to win five of the previous seven NAIA II national titles.
Morningside, which also won national titles in 2004 and 2005, finished the campaign with a 38-0 record and joined Indiana Wesleyan in 2007 as the only teams in history to win the NAIA II crown with an undefeated record.
Eighteenth-ranked Hastings was a surprise finalist after a fifth place GPAC finish during the regular season. The Broncos upset second-ranked Shawnee State in the second round and No. 3 College of the Ozarks in the semifinals. For awhile, it looked like they might add top-ranked Morningside to their list of upset victims when Hastings took a 50-44 lead midway through the second half before the Mustangs rallied to keep their undefeated season intact.
Dani Gass, named to the all-tournament team, fueled the Mustangs’ triumph with game-high totals of 24 points and 12 rebounds for her 10th double-double of the season. The 12 rebounds matched her season’s high.
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 Morningside College’s Dani Gass, a 5-10 senior guard from Sioux City, has been named the NAIA Division II National Player of the Year to headline the 2009 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball All-America Team released Tuesday.
Gass was named to the NAIA II All-America first-team for the third year in a row.
In addition to Gass, the Mustangs’ Autumn Bartel, a 5-8 senior guard from Cherokee, Iowa, was also named to the NAIA II All-America first-team.
Morningside’s Jamie Sale was named the NAIA National Coach of the Year.
Sale guided Morningside to a 38-0 record and a NAIA Division II National Championship after the Mustangs defeated Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) rival Hastings College 68-63 in Tuesday’s NAIA II Championship Game. The Mustangs became only the second team in history to win the NAIA II national title with an undefeated record.
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Seven members of the Mustangs' No. 1-ranked women's basketball team have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
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 Morningside’s Dani Gass, a 5-10 senior guard from Sioux City, and Autumn Bartel, a 5-8 senior guard from Cherokee, Iowa, were each named to the 2008-09 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Gass was also named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Player of the Year and Bartel was named the GPAC Defensive Player of the Year. In addition, the Mustangs’ Jamie Sale was named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach of the Year for the second year in a row after he led the Mustangs to their fifth consecutive GPAC regular season championship and their first ever undefeated regular season. Morningside, which also won the GPAC Post-Season Tournament championship with a 64-56 victory against Northwestern College in Tuesday’s title game, will take a 33-0 record and a No. 1 national ranking into the upcoming NAIA Division II National Tournament slated for March 11-17 at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.
In addition to their two first-team selections, the Mustangs' Laura Nelson and Brittany Williamson were each named to the All-GPAC second-team and Leslie Foral made the All-GPAC honorable mention list.
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 Morningside College’s No. 1-ranked women’s basketball team added the GPAC Post-Season Tournament championship to its regular season GPAC title when the Mustangs defeated No. 6 Northwestern College 64-56 in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center on GPAC Championship Tuesday presented by Rawlings.
Autumn Bartel scored a game-high 17 points for the unbeaten Mustangs, who climbed to 33-0 on the season. She was joined in double figures by Brittany Williamson with 11 points and Dani Gass with 10. Leslie Foral and Laura Nelson just missed double figures with eight points each.
The Mustangs never trailed in a contest where the score was tied only three times. The Mustangs took the lead for good at 14-11 on a 3-pointer by Gass with 13:28 left in the first half.
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 Morningside College’s women’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the final regular season NAIA Division II poll to complete a run where the Mustangs were the nation’s top ranked team for the entire season since the pre-season poll came out last October.
The Mustangs, who finished the regular season with an undefeated record for the first time in school history, will take a 33-0 record into the NAIA Division II National Tournament scheduled for March 11-17 in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena. Sixteen of the Mustangs’ victories have come against teams that have been nationally ranked this season. Morningside and No. 2 Shawnee State University (30-0) are the only remaining undefeated teams in the NAIA II.
The Mustangs were the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season champions with an unblemished 18-0 record and won the GPAC’s Post-Season Tournament title with a 64-56 win against Northwestern College in Tuesday’s championship game.
Morningside is one of five teams from the GPAC ranked in the NAIA Top 25. Northwestern is ranked sixth, Concordia University is eighth, Mount Marty College is 14th, and Hastings College is 18th.
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 Brittany Williamson, a 6-0 junior forward from Ruthven, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.
Williamson was the leading scorer in both of Morningside’s two victories last week as the No. 1-ranked Mustangs improved their record to 23-0. She averaged 19.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game and made 17 of 28 field goal attempts for 60.7 percent in the two triumphs. Williamson had 16 points and five rebounds in a 76-69 win against Dordt College on Jan. 21 and had 22 points and five rebounds in an 84-65 victory against 10th-ranked Concordia University.
Williamson has scored in double figures in each of the Mustangs’ last seven games and is averaging a career-high 12.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.
 Morningside has been tabbed the favorite to capture the 2008-09 GPAC regular season championship in the GPAC Coaches' Pre-Season Poll.
The Mustangs return four starters from a team that finished 33-4 last season and won the GPAC with an 18-0 league record to become only the second team in conference history to run the table.
Morningside has won at least a share of four consecutive GPAC regular season championships.
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