Women's Basketball

Morningside College will host two girls basketball individual skills camps from Monday to Thursday, June 3 to 6.

The camps are open to girls entering grades 3 through 10 during the 2012-13 school year. Campers will be placed into groups according to their age and ability levels. A camp for girls in grades 3-5 will be held each day from 9 a.m. to noon and a camp for girls in grades 6-10 will be held each day from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Chelsie Trask, a 5-9 senior guard from Rockford, Ill., received the Most Valuable Player Award for Morningside College’s 2012-13 women’s basketball season when the Mustangs held their post-season awards banquet.

Trask was the Mustangs’ leading scorer with an average of 13.5 points per game and led the team in scoring in 14 of their 36 contests. Trask scored a career-high 35 points in a 79-63 victory against Hastings College in Morningside’s regular season finale for the Mustangs’ top individual scoring performance of the season. Aside from leading the Mustangs in scoring, Trask ranked second on the team with 94 assists and 57 steals for averages of 2.6 assists and 1.6 steals per contest to go along with a norm of 3.0 rebounds per game.

Trask, a four-year starter, two-time NAIA Division II first-team All-American, and three-time first-team All-GPAC performer, finished her career as the fourth leading scorer in Morningside history with 1,859 points.

Trask and Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 sophomore forward from Minneota, Minn., were named the Mustangs’ Co-Offensive MVPs.

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Iowa's prep assist leader from each of the past two seasons is among the latest recruits annnounced by Morningside women's basketball head coach Jamie Sale.

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Morningside College enjoyed another banner women’s basketball season during the recently completed 2012-13 campaign.

The Mustangs captured Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) regular season and post-season tournament championships and made their sixth Final Four appearance at the NAIA Division II National Tournament in the last 10 years on their way to a final record of 31-5.

The Mustangs broke one school record this season. The record breaking performance came on Feb. 2 when the Mustangs made 21 3-point field goals in a 114-49 victory against Nebraska Wesleyan University to break their former mark of 19 3-pointers in a game against Doane College on Feb. 9, 2008.

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Morningside College is ranked No. 3 in the nation in the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Post-Season Poll.

The Mustangs, who were ranked No. 1 in the final regular season poll, finished the season with a record of 31-5 and reached the Final Four at the NAIA Division II National Tournament, where they lost 65-64 against eventual NAIA II National Champion Indiana Wesleyan University in the semifinals.

Morningside is one of four teams from the GPAC ranked in the post-season NAIA Top 25. Northwestern College is ranked fourth, Concordia University is ninth, and Briar Cliff University is 12th.

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Chelsie Trask, a 5-9 senior guard from Rockford, Iowa, was named to the 2012-13 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball All-America First Team.

Trask is one of three repeat first-team selections from last year’s team along with Kendra De Jong of Northwestern College and Morgan Smith of College of the Ozarks.

Trask was the leading scorer with an average of 13.5 points per game for a Morningside team that reached the semifinals of this year’s NAIA Division II National Tournament, where the Mustangs lost 65-64 against eventual NAIA II National Champion Indiana Wesleyan University. She was the Mustangs’ leading scorer in 14 of their 36 contests. Trask had 10 scoring performances of 20 points or more, including a career-high 35 points in a 79-63 victory against Hastings College in Morningside’s regular season finale for the Mustangs’ top individual scoring performance of the season.

In addition to Trask, the Mustangs placed Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 sophomore forward from Minneota, Minn., on the NAIA Division II All-America honorable mention list.

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Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 sophomore forward from Minneota, Minn., was named to the all-tournament first-team at the 2013 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Tournament held March 6-12 at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

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Indiana Wesleyan University ended Morningside’s hopes for a national championship when the fourth-ranked Wildcats defeated the top ranked Mustangs 65-64 in the NAIA Division II National Tournament semifinals at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

The Mustangs, regular season and post-season champions of the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC), bowed out with a record of 31-5. Indiana Wesleyan, which was ranked No. 1 in the nation in seven consecutive polls before it lost 54-48 against the University of Saint Francis in the Crossroads League’s post-season tournament, will take a 34-3 record into the NAIA II National Championship Game against No. 6 Davenport University.

Indiana Wesleyan’s victory snapped a 15-game winning streak for Morningside as well as the GPAC’s five-year reign of national championships after Davenport took out three-time defending champion Northwestern College 74-68 earlier in the evening. Indiana Wesleyan won the NAIA II national crown in 2007, marking the only time in the past 12 years that the title didn’t go to a team from the GPAC.

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Five members of Morningside College’s women’s basketball team have been named 2012-13 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

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Top-ranked Morningside advanced to the Final Four of the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Tournament and gave head coach Jamie Sale his 400th career victory in the process with a 71-60 victory over No. 11 Bethel College in the NAIA Quarterfinals at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

Morningside won its 15th game in a row and improved to 31-4 on the season, while Bethel bowed out at 27-8.

The win puts the Mustangs in the NAIA II Final Four for the sixth time during the Sale era. The victory put Sale’s career record at 400-115, including a 321-95 mark in 12 years at Morningside. Sale guided Morningside to NAIA II National Championships in 2005, 2005, and 2009 and now has them knocking on the door again.

The Mustangs will try to get one step closer to a national title when they meet fourth-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University in the NAIA Semifinals

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No. 1-ranked Morningside advanced to the Elite Eight of the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Tournament with a 69-47 victory over No. 17 College of Idaho in second round action at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

The Mustangs will take a 30-4 record and a 14-game winning streak into the quarterfinals, where they will meet 11th-ranked Bethel College of Indiana.

A win against Bethel in the quarterfinals would enable Morningside head coach Jamie Sale to reach the 400-victory plateau for his career. Friday’s triumph against College of Idaho put Sale’s career record at 399-115, including a 320-95 ledger in 12 seasons at Morningside.

Morningside pressured College of Idaho into a miserable 27.0 percent shooting performance from the field, including a woeful zero-for-18 effort from beyond the 3-point arc.

No. 1-ranked Morningside had too much firepower for unranked Webber International University when the Mustangs blasted the Warriors 92-43 in first round action in the NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Tournament at Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena.

The Mustangs rolled to their 13th win in a row and will take a 29-4 record into the second round, where they will No. 17 College of Idaho.

The Mustangs played without sophomore forward Ashlynn Muhl, their leading rebounder and a first-team All-Great Plains Athletic Conference performer, who is sidelined with a knee injury. Morningside didn’t need their top inside presence in the first round contest as they overpowered a Webber International team that entered the tourney with a 15-13 record for the least number of wins in the 32-team field.

Morningside outrebounded the Warriors 57-49, had 12 different players score, and pressured its opponent into a woeful 21.7 percent shooting performance.

Chelsie Trask, a 5-9 senior guard from Rockford, Iowa; and Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 sophomore forward from Minneota, Minn., have been named to the 2012-13 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball First Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.

In addition to their two first-team All-GPAC selections, Morningside’s Jessica Tietz was named the GPAC Freshman of the Year and Jamie Sale was named the Hauff-Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach of the Year after he guided the Mustangs to GPAC regular season and post-season tournament championships and an 11th consecutive NAIA Division II National Tournament appearance. Sale is the winningest women’s basketball coach in Morningside history with a 318-95 career record for a .770 winning percentage.

Trask received first-team All-GPAC honors for the third year in a row. She is the leading scorer with an average of 13.7 points per game for a Morningside team that will take a 28-4 record and a 12-game winning streak into the NAIA Division II National Tournament.

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Morningside added the GPAC Post-Season Tournament Championship to its regular season GPAC title when the second-ranked Mustangs edged No. 8 Northwestern 78-73 on GPAC Championship Tuesday in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.

The Mustangs defeated the three-time reigning NAIA Division II National Champion Red Raiders for the third time this season and for the sixth time in a row dating back to last season.

Morningside improved its record to 28-4 and will take a 12-game winning streak into the upcoming NAIA Division II National Tournament slated for March 6-12 in Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center/Gateway Arena. Northwestern had an eight-game winning streak snapped and will take a 23-7 record into the national tourney.

Shelby Beaudette, who beat Northwestern with last second shots twice during the regular season, led the Mustangs with 16 points behind a seven-for-11 shooting performance from the field.

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Morningside used a furious 22-point scoring run in the second half to blow past Hastings and win the GPAC women’s basketball championship outright with a 79-63 on Feb. 16 in the Rosen Verdoorn Sports Center.

The fourth-ranked Mustang won their ninth game in a row to finish the regular season with a record of 25-4, including a 17-3 mark in the GAPC to finish atop the league standings by a one-game margin over runner-up Concordia. The Mustangs won their sixth conference title during the Jamie Sale coaching era and the first since their 38-0 2008-09 NAIA Division II National Championship season. The GPAC regular season championship also locked up a NAIA Division II National Tournament berth for the Mustangs, who will make their 11th consecutive national tourney appearance.

Morningside and Hastings will meet again on Wednesday when the GPAC Post-Season Tournament begins with quarterfinal round contests at the sites of the top four seeds.

On a day when the Mustangs honored their seniors, Chelsie Trask responded with a career-high 35 points and fellow senior Bobbi McManaman chipped in with 18 for one of the top scoring efforts of her career. Both players were on fire from 3-point range as McManaman bombed in six of eight 3-point shots and Trask found the range on six of her 10 3-point shots.

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Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 sophomore forward from Taunton, Minn., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for Dec. 3-9.

Muhl averaged 14.7 points and 10.0 rebounds per game and drilled 15 of 25 field goal attempts for 60.0 percent to help lead the Mustangs to a 3-0 record last week.

Muhl had a pair of double-doubles with 12 points and 14 rebounds in a 66-47 victory against William Penn University and 22 points and 12 rebounds in a 74-59 win against Dakota Wesleyan. She finished the week with 10 points and four rebounds in a 69-48 triumph against Doane College.

Morningside will take a 9-1 record into a Wednesday home game against Dordt College.

Morningside is picked for a third place finish in the GPAC Women’s Basketball Coaches Pre-Season Poll.

The Mustangs return 12 letterwinners, including four starters, from a team that posted a 26-9 record last season en route to a 10th consecutive NAIA Division II National Tournament appearance. Morningside finished tied for second in last year's GPAC standings with a 16-4 league mark.

Morningside will open the 2012-13 campaign with a 5:30 p.m. home game against Viterbo University on Friday, Nov. 2.

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The majority of Morningside men’s and women’s basketball games are broadcast on Clear Channel Radio/KWSL 1470 AM.

Most of Morningside's home men's and women's basketball games are also broadcast live by the college's campus radio station KMSC 92.9 FM. In addition, a live video stream is also available for most Morningside home men's and women's basketball games.