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Morningside College women’s basketball head coach Jamie Sale has announced the names of 11 high school recruits who will join the Mustangs next season.
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Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 junior guard from Sioux City, received the Most Valuable Player Award for the Morningside College women’s basketball team at the Mustangs’ awards banquet.
Worden also received the Mustangs' Offensive MVP Award, while Leslie Foral was named the Mustangs' Defensive MVP.
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Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 junior guard from Sioux City, was the leading scorer for the Morningside College women’s basketball team during the 2009-10 season.
Worden scored 586 points for an average of 17.8 points per game for the Mustangs’ highest scoring average since Megan Cloud averaged 19.6 points per game during the Mustangs’ 2004-05 NAIA Division II National Championship season. Aside from her scoring exploits, Worden also led the Mustangs with 123 assists and 103 steals for averages of 3.7 assists and 3.1 steals per game.
Worden, who joined the Mustangs this season as a transfer from NCAA Division II Christian Brothers University, already ranks 43rd on Morningside’s all-time career scoring list with her 586 points this season.
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Jalyssa Ceasar, a 5-10 forward from Sioux City and a former two-time first-team prep all-stater at Sioux City North High School, will transfer to Morningside College with sophomore eligibility and join the Mustangs’ women’s basketball team announced Morningside women’s basketball head coach Jamie Sale.
Ceasar was at NCAA Division II Metropolitan State College of Denver this year, where she played in four games before leaving the team. Ceasar averaged 8.8 points and 6.0 rebounds per game at Metropolitan State. She made 11 of 24 field goal attempts for 45.8 percent and 13 of 19 free throw attempts for 68.4 percent.
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 Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 junior guard from Sioux City, has been named to the 2010 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball All-America Team Second-Team.
Worden was the Mustangs’ leading scorer this season with an average of 17.8 points per game for the Mustangs’ highest scoring average since Megan Cloud averaged 19.6 points per game in the 2004-05 campaign. Worden was the Mustangs’ leading scorer in 12 of their final 15 games of the season. She scored 20 points or more in 16 of the Mustangs’ 33 contests, including seven of the final 10 games of the season. Worden led the Mustangs with 29 double figure scoring performances and was their leading scorer in 22 of their 33 contests. Worden scored 31 points in the Mustangs’ 80-72 victory against Hastings College on Jan 30 for the Mustangs’ top individual scoring performance of the season.
Aside from her scoring exploits, Worden also led the Mustangs with 123 assists and 103 steals for averages of 3.7 assists and 3.1 steals per game to go along with a norm of 2.4 rebounds per contest. Worden made 213 of 485 field goal attempts for 43.9 percent, 68 of 191 3-point field goal attempts for 35.6 percent, and 92 of 126 free throw attempts for 73.0 percent.
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Five Morningside College women’s basketball players have been named 2010 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
Student-athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a minimum GPA of 3.50 in order to be eligible for Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.
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Morningside has been known for its prolific 3-point shooting during its climb to rank among the elite women’s basketball programs in the nation. But on Friday night it was the 3-point shooting of College of the Ozarks that did the Mustangs in when the reigning NAIA Division II National Champions bowed out of the 2010 national tournament with a 92-74 second round loss.
The Bobcats, ranked sixth in the nation, bombed the 11th-ranked Mustangs into submission with their 3-point shooting as they drilled 14 of 24 shots from beyond the 3-point arc for a sizzling 58.3 percent. Ozarks shot 54.1 percent overall as the Bobcats stretched their winning streak to 19 games to move into Saturday’s NAIA II Quarterfinals, where a win against No. 7 Indiana Wesleyan University would put them in the Final Four for the fifth year in a row. Ozarks will take a 29-4 record into its Saturday contest.
A pair of Ozarks 3-point flurries did the Mustangs in. The score was tied 25-25 before Maranda Vaught, Kayla Messick, Tara Larue, and Megan Jewell all made 3-pointers during an 18-2 Bobcat scoring run that put Ozarks on top 43-27. Then, after Morningside closed within five points at 54-49 in the second half, Vaught buried 3-pointers on three consecutive trips down the floor to put the Bobcats up 63-49 with 11:54 left to stymie the Mustangs’ final rally.
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 Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 junior guard from Sioux City, has been named to the All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Worden is the leading scorer for a Morningside team that will make an eighth consecutive appearance in the NAIA Division II National Tournament next week in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena. She is averaging 17.5 points per game for the Mustangs’ highest scoring average since Megan Cloud averaged 19.6 points per game in the 2004-05 campaign. Worden has been the Mustangs’ leading scorer in 10 of their last 13 games and has averaged 19.2 points per game during that stretch. She has scored 20 points or more in 15 of the Mustangs’ 31 contests, including six of their last eight contests. Worden has a team-high 27 double figure scoring performances and has been the Mustangs’ leading scorer in 20 of their 31 contests. She scored 31 points in the Mustangs’ 80-27 victory against Hastings College on Jan 30 for the Mustangs’ top individual scoring performance of the season.
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 Tanaeya Worden, a 5-6 junior guard from Sioux City, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the second week in a row.
Worden averaged 22.0 points and 5.0 rebounds per game to lead the 11th-ranked Mustangs to a pair of triumphs last week. She scored 22 points to go along with a season’s high six rebounds in an 85-76 overtime win at No. 7 Briar Cliff University and had 22 points, four rebounds, and three assists in a 76-41 victory at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Worden scored 15 of the game’s first 19 points against Nebraska Wesleyan to help the Mustangs go on a 19-0 scoring run to open the contest. She made four of five 3-point field goal attempts in the Nebraska Wesleyan game.
Worden has been the Mustangs’ leading scorer in each of their last six games and in nine of their last 11 contests. She has averaged 20.5 points per game over the last 11 games to raise her season’s scoring average from 16.3 to 17.9 points per game for the Mustangs’ highest scoring average since Megan Cloud averaged 19.6 points per game during the 2004-05 campaign.
Morningside finished the regular season with a 19-10 record and will host a GPAC Tournament Quarterfinal round game on Thursday at 7 p.m. against the winner between Tuesday’s first round game between No. 21 Concordia University and Dana College.
 Kalene Anderson, a 6-0 forward from Bancroft, Neb., will attend Morningside College next year and compete for the Mustangs’ women’s basketball team announced Morningside women’s basketball head coach Jamie Sale.
Anderson is a senior at Bancroft-Rosalie High School, where she helped lead the school to back-to-back Class D-1 state championships and a combined record of 54-1 over the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons. Anderson, a two-time first-team All-Lewis & Clark Conference performer, has scored 996 points during her prep career to put her just four points shy of the 1,000-point milestone.
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 Morningside College is ranked 11th in the nation in the final 2009-10 NAIA Division II women’s basketball poll released on Feb. 22.
The Mustangs, the reigning NAIA Division II National Champions, were also ranked 11th in last week’s poll.
Morningside went 2-0 last week with an 85-76 overtime victory at No. 7 Briar Cliff University and a 71-46 triumph at Nebraska Wesleyan University. The Mustangs finished the regular season with a 19-10 record and need one more victory to achieve a school-record seventh consecutive 20-win season.
Morningside is one of five teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in the NAIA Top 25. Hastings College is ranked No. 1, Northwestern College is third, Briar Cliff is eighth, and Concordia University is 21st.
Morningside will host a quarterfinal round game in the GPAC Post-Season Tournament on Thursday at 7 p.m. against the winner of Tuesday’s first round game between Concordia and Dana College.
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Two of the greatest women’s basketball players in Morningside College history were honored prior to the start of the Mustangs' game against Dakota Wesleyan University on Nov. 24 when the college retired the jerseys worn by Autumn Bartel and Dani Gass.
Bartel and Gass were the standouts for a 2008-09 Morningside team that ranks as one of the all-time best in NAIA Division II history. They led the Mustangs to a 38-0 record and the NAIA II National Championship as Morningside became only the second team in history to capture the NAIA II national title with an undefeated record. Morningside had a combined record of 121-22, won four Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season championships, and won two GPAC post-season tournament championships during their four-year careers. Morningside was undefeated over the final 55 regular season games of their careers.
Both players were named to the 2009 NAIA II All-America first-team. Gass was also named the NAIA Division II National Player of the Year and the GPAC Player of the Year, while Bartel was named the Most Valuable Player of the NAIA II National Tournament and was last year’s GPAC Defensive Player of the Year.
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