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Mustangs To Host Kansas Wesleyan In Home Opener
Mustangs Picked Eighth In GPAC Pre-Season Poll
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Photo / Bill Zahren
Bailey Bichel advances the ball in a scrimmage against Briar Cliff. Click here to see the entire gallery.
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Sept. 4- vs. Kansas Wesleyan University, Noon, Sioux City, IA
 Tom Maxon (Southern Maine ’88) is in his 11th season as Morningside’s head women’s soccer coach and in his 10th season as head coach of the college’s men’s team. He has compiled a 265-227-23 career record in the collegiate ranks, including a 98-94-8 record with the Morningside women and an 84-93-7 mark with the Morningside men. Maxon, the 2007 GPAC Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year, led the Mustang women to NAIA National Tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007. He was named the 2004 GPAC Men’s Soccer Coach of the Year after he led the Mustangs to a share of the league’s regular season championship. He previously coached at St. Mary of the Plains College and National American University.
F- Jamie Swotek, So., Council Bluffs, IA
F- Kathryn Sorenson, Jr., Sioux Falls, SD
MF- Ashley Doran, Jr., Harlan, IA
MF- Breanna Turner, Fr., Aurora, CO
MF- Kelsey Niles, Fr., Sioux City, IA
MF- Taylor Hatting, Fr., Sioux City, IA
D- Carly Borr, Fr., Rapid City, SD
D- Tori Vondrak, Fr., Sioux City, IA
D- Darrian Bugg, Fr., Dolores, CO
D- Kalee Gross, Fr., Omaha, NE
GK- Felicia Reimann, Fr., Rapid City, SD, 0-1 Rec. 12 Svs, 2.00 GAA
1.Dakota Wesleyan, 113 points; 2.Midland Lutheran, 109; 3.Hastings, 105; 4.Doane, 85; 5.Dordt, 83; 6.Sioux Falls, 72; 7.Concordia, 57; 8.Morningside, 50; 9.Briar Cliff, 43; 10.Nebraska Wesleyan, 37; 11.Northwestern, 26; 12.Mount Marty, 12.
Morningside opened the 2010 season with a 5-0 loss against William Jewell College last Sunday in Liberty, Mo. The Mustangs were outshot 32-1 in the contest.
Morningside posted a 3-14-1 record last season and finished 11th in the GPAC with a 2-9-1 league mark. . .Morningside will play its home opener against a Kansas Wesleyan team that has won three Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) regular season titles and four KCAC tournament championships over the last five years. . .Felicia Reimann, a freshman goal keeper from Rapid City, S.D., gave the Mustangs a solid performance against William Jewell in her collegiate debut. Reimann had 12 saves and allowed only one goal in the first half to keep the Mustangs within 1-0 by the intermission despite an 18-0 shot differential. She did not play in the second half. . .Jamie Swotek, a sophomore forward from Council Bluffs, Iowa, led the Mustangs in scoring last year as a freshman with seven goals, five assists, and 15 points to top the team in all three categories. Swotek scored seven of the Mustangs’ 16 goals last season. . .Abby Bull, a senior forward from Elkhorn, Neb., is 10th in the Morningside record book with nine career goals and 11 career assists.
Morningside will host College of Saint Mary on Sunday, Sept. 12, at 3 p.m.
 Morningside was picked for an eighth place finish in the 2010 GPAC Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Pre-Season Poll.
The Mustangs posted a 3-14-1 record and finished 11th in the GPAC with a 2-9-1 league mark last season.
Morningside will open the 2010 season with a 1 p.m. contest against William Jewell College on Sunday, Aug. 29, in Liberty, Mo.
Click here for the 2010 GPAC Women's Soccer Coaches' Pre-Season Poll.
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