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 Kendra Klein, a junior third baseman from Remsen, Iowa, has been named to the second-team of the 2008 NAIA All-America Softball Team.
Klein was the Mustangs’ top run producer this season with 43 runs scored and a team-high 54 RBIs for the second highest single-season RBI total in Morningside history. Klein, the 2008 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Player of the Year, hit .386 with 11 doubles, two triples, eight home runs, and a team-high 25 base on balls. Her 25 walks was the third highest single-season total in Morningside history. She also topped the Mustangs with a .484 on-base percentage.
In addition to Klein, the Mustangs’ Kelly Baumert and Alisha Krieg were both named to the NAIA All-America honorable mention list.
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 Alisha Krieg, Steph Loeschen, Emily Peterson, and Megan Tuttle have been named 2008 Daktronics/NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of softball.
Student-athletes must be of at least junior status and have a minimum GPA of 3.50 in order to be eligible for Daktronics/NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.
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 Whitney McElrath, a senior pitcher from Moville, Iowa, became the all-time winningest pitcher in Morningside College history during the 2008 softball campaign.
McElrath posted a 16-6 record this season to finish her career with a won-lost record of 92-42 to break the previous Morningside record of 89 career victories held by 1996 graduate Jeree Carlson.
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 Kelly Baumert, Kendra Klein, and Alisha Krieg were all named to the 2008 NAIA All-Region III Softball Team.
Morningside posted a 40-12 record for its third consecutive 40-win season, won the GPAC’s post-season tournament title, and was the NAIA Region III runner-up this past season.
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 Kendra Klein, a junior third baseman from Remsen, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Player of the Year and Kelly Baumert, a sophomore pitcher from Omaha, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Co-Pitcher of the Year to headline the Mustangs’ selections on the 2008 All-GPAC Softball Team as selected by the leagues’ head coaches.
They are joined on the All-GPAC first-team by Alisha Krieg, a senior outfielder from Kingsley, Iowa.
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Morningside is the 2008 GPAC Softball Tournament champion after it drubbed Doane College 11-3 in five innings in Saturday morning’s championship game in Hastings, Neb.
The victory earned the Mustangs, 37-10, an automatic berth in next week’s NAIA Region III Tournament.
The Mustangs had seven hits and capitalized on seven Tiger errors to turn the GPAC title game into a rout.
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