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Sorathia Named To All-GPAC Team For Fourth Time
Davis And Gildemeister Named NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Graham Is GPAC Player Of The Week
Dane Larson, the No. 1 singles player and Most Valuable Player for Sioux City East High School this past season, will enroll at Morningside this fall and compete for the Mustangs' men's tennis and basketball teams.
He played No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles for the Black Raiders’ tennis team this past season and was named the team’s Most Valuable Player. Larson had a 4-2 singles record and a 9-2 mark in doubles competition.
In basketball he averaged 9.8 points and 8.0 rebounds per game this past season and topped the Black Raiders with 89 assists and 34 steals for norms of 4.0 assists and 1.5 steals per contest. He received first-team Sioux City Journal All-Metro honors, second-team All-Missouri River Activities Conference (MRAC) laurels, and third-team Sioux City Journal All-Northwest Iowa honors.
 Nabil Sorathia, a senior from Sioux City, has been named to the first-team of the 2008 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Tennis Team.
Sorathia was named to the All-GPAC team for the fourth year in a row. He earned first-team All-GPAC honors each of the past three seasons and was a second-team selection as a freshman.
He had a 6-4 singles record this season while playing in the No. 1 flight.
Sorathia logged a 27-15 singles record during his Morningside career. He had a career mark of 27-16 in doubles competition to finish his career with 54 combined victories, second only to Mustangs’ head coach Larry Mason, who compiled 59 combined singles and doubles triumphs during a career that spanned from 1970 to 1973.
In addition to Sorathia, the Mustangs’ Matt Ford, a freshman from Rice, Minn., was named to the All-GPAC honorable mention list. Ford posted a 7-4 singles record this season while playing in the No. 4 flight.
Sorathia and Ford helped lead the Mustangs to a 6-5 dual record during the 2008 season.
Click here for the complete 2008 All-GPAC Men's Tennis Team.
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Madison Davis |
Laura Gildemeister |
Madison Davis and Laura Gildemeister have been named 2008 Daktronics/NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of women’s tennis.
Davis, a junior from Sioux City, has a 3.65 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and is majoring in elementary education. She was the Mustangs’ No. 2 singles player this past season.
Gildemeister, a junior from Sioux City, has a 3.85 cumulative GPA and is majoring in business administration with an emphasis in finance and management. She was the Mustangs’ No. 1 singles player this past season.
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.
Click here for the complete list of Daktronics/NAIA Women's Tennis Scholar-Athletes.
 Marisa Graham, a freshman from Sioux City, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.
Graham had a 1-1 record at No. 5 singles and combined with Lynn Leonard to go 1-1 in No. 3 doubles last week when the Mustangs defeated NCAA Division II Northern State University 5-4 and lost 9-0 against NCAA II University of South Dakota.
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