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 Colby Henderson, a 5-11, 175 lb. junior defensive back from Wakefield, Neb., has been named the 2011 Beyond Sports College Network (BSN) NAIA National Defensive Player of the Year as one of the headliners on the 2011 BSN NAIA All-American Football Team.
Henderson, the 2011 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Defensive Player of the Year, led the nation in interceptions this season with a school-record 11 pass thefts that he returned for a school-record 372 yards and four touchdowns.
Aside from leading the Mustangs in interceptions, Henderson also topped the team with two blocked kicks and was second on the team with six pass breakups. Henderson was the Mustangs’ fifth leading tackler with 41 solos and nine assists for 50 total tackles, including three stops behind the line of scrimmage for losses of 19 yards.
In addition to Henderson, the Mustangs placed Marshall Barney on the BSN All-American second-team and Fred Jones on the BSN All-American third-team.
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 Morningside’s Colby Rohde attended the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan. 3 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, La., as a member of the 2011 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team.
Rohde, a senior tight end from Wathena, Kan., and the other 22 members of the Good Works team were introduced at halftime.
The members of the 2011 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team surprised more than 150 children from the YMCA of Greater New Orleans at Tad Gormley Stadium on Jan. 2. Each member of the Good Works Team coached a small group of kids in various football drills and assisted in playing games of two-hand touch football.
For 20 years the award has recognized a select group of college football players committed to making a difference in their communities. A program-record 132 players were nominated for the 2011 team and from that list an 11-member team comprised of players from NCAA Division I-A and an 11-member team comprised of players from NCAA Divisions I-A, II, III and the NAIA were selected.
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 Morningside College is ranked ninth nationally in the NAIA post-season football poll.
The Mustangs finished the season with a 9-2 record, were Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) champions, and made their eighth consecutive post-season appearance in the NAIA Championship Series, where they dropped a 21-17 opening round contest against the University of St. Francis.
Morningside is one of three teams from the GPAC ranked in the NAIA Post-Season Top 25. Northwestern College is ranked 17th and Doane College is ranked 19th.
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Morningside broke several defensive school records during the 2011 football season en route to the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) championship.
The Mustangs’ individual record breakers were Colby Henderson, the NAIA national leader in interceptions, and Marshall Barney, who was the Mustangs’ most frequent visitor into the opponents’ backfield.
The Mustangs posted a 9-2 record in 2011 and are 77-18 for a .811 winning percentage over the last eight seasons.
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Kyle Kepplinger and Matt Muschall have been named 2011 Daktronics-NAIA Football Scholar-Athletes.
Kepplinger, a 6-1, 225 lb. senior tight end from Scotland, S.D., has a 3.57 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with majors in biology and chemistry.
Muschall, a 6-1, 255 lb. senior defensive lineman from Omaha, Neb., has a 3.81 cumulative GPA with majors in engineering physics and applied computer science. Muschall was named a first-team Capital One College Division Academic All-American earlier this year.
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.
Morningside posted a 9-2 record, won the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) championship, and made its eighth consecutive post-season appearance in the NAIA Championship Series during the 2011 season. The Mustangs have a 77-18 record for a .811 winning percentage since the start of the 2004 season.
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 Colby Henderson, a 5-11, 175 lb. junior defensive back from Wakefield, Neb., has been named to the 2011 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NAIA Coaches All-America Team.
Henderson, the 2011 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Defensive Player of the Year, led the nation in interceptions this season with a school-record 11 pass thefts that he returned for a school-record 372 yards and four touchdowns. Henderson broke the former Morningside records of 10 interceptions by Dwight Sann in 1969 and 300 interception return yards by Chad Hustedt in 2007. He averaged a whopping 33.8 yards per interception return.
Aside from leading the Mustangs in interceptions, Henderson also topped the team with two blocked kicks and was second on the team with six pass breakups. Henderson was the Mustangs’ fifth leading tackler with 41 solos and nine assists for 50 total tackles, including three stops behind the line of scrimmage for losses of 19 yards.
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Matt Muschall and Jordan Sitzmann have been named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America College Division Football Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Muschall, a 6-1, 255 lb. senior defensive lineman from Omaha, Neb., was named to the Academic All-America First Team, while Sitzmann, a 6-1, 190 lb. sophomore punter from Le Mars, Iowa, was named to the Academic All-America Second Team.
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Morningside College head football coach Steve Ryan has been named the 2011 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NAIA Region 4 Co-Coach of the Year.
Ryan shares the award with Doane College head coach Matt Franzen.
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 The University of St. Francis staged a fourth quarter rally for the third game in a row to move on from the opening round of the NAIA Championship Series with a 21-17 victory over host Morningside College on Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
The 11th-ranked Fighting Saints, co-champions of the Mid-States Football Association Midwest League, improved to 10-2 with a victory in their first post-season appearance in 24 years. Sixth-ranked Morningside, champion of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, bowed out at 9-2 while making its eighth consecutive post-season appearance. Saturday’s opening round setback ended a streak where the Mustangs had advanced to at least the quarterfinals for six years running.
Morningside took a 17-14 lead into the fourth quarter and the lead stood until Fighting Saint quarterback E.J. White delivered a 69-yard touchdown bomb to Lexus Jackson for the deciding touchdown with 6:56 left in the game.
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Colby Henderson has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Defensive Player of the Year to highlight the Mustangs’ selections on the 2011 All-GPAC Football Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Morningside head coach Steve Ryan was named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach of the Year after he led the Mustangs to this year’s league championship with an 8-1 league record. Morningside has an overall record of 9-1 and will take a No. 6 NAIA national ranking into this Saturday’s contest against the University of St. Francis in the opening round of the NAIA Championship Series.
Ryan, who also earned GPAC Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and 2005, is in his 10th season at Morningside, where he has an 85-29 career record for a .746 winning percentage for the highest victory rate in Morningside history. He has led the Mustangs to eight consecutive appearances in the NAIA Championship Series.
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 Morningside wrapped up sole possession of the 2011 GPAC football championship when it routed city rival Briar Cliff 59-7 on Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
The Mustangs finished the regular season with a 9-1 overall record and an 8-1 mark in the GPAC to win their second league title since they entered the league. The Mustangs won their second GPAC crown since they entered the league in 2003. They were also GPAC kingpins in 2005.
Morningside will advance to the NAIA National Championship Series and will learn its opening round opponent when first round pairings are announced Sunday afternoon.
Morningside improved its all-time record against the Chargers to 9-0 and the outcome was never in doubt as the Mustangs scored points on seven of their nine first half possessions to take a 45-0 lead into the intermission.
The Mustangs used a balanced mix to roll up 601 yards total offense with 304 yards on the ground and 297 yards through the air. The Morningside defense, meanwhile, limited Briar Cliff to just 143 yards and stuffed the Chargers’ offense for just eight yards in the opening half.
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Jared Goforth, Matt Muschall, Aaron Roberg, and Jordan Sitzmann have all been named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District V Football Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
All four players will be placed on the national ballot for the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Football Team.
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 Colby Henderson, a 5-11, 175 lb. junior defensive back from Wakefield, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Mustangs’ 28-7 victory against Concordia University last Saturday in Seward, Neb.
Henderson scored the first touchdown of the game with an 88-yard interception return for his fourth interception TD run back of the season. Aside from the interception, Henderson also had four solo tackles, an assisted tackle, and blocked a pair of Concordia field goal attempts.
He is the NAIA national leader with nine interceptions to put him one shy of the Morningside school record of 10 interceptions in a season by Dwight Sann in 1969. Henderson has a school-record 333 interception return yards for an average of 30.7 yards per return. Henderson broke the former Morningside single-season record of 300 interception return yards by Chad Hustedt in 2007.
Henderson received the GPAC Defensive Player of the Week honor for the third time this season. He has also been the GPAC Special Teams Player of the Week this season.
Morningside will take an 8-1 record into its regular season finale against Briar Cliff University this Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
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Morningside clinched at least a share of the 2011 GPAC football title with a 28-7 victory against Concordia on Saturday in Seward, Neb.
The Mustangs, ranked sixth nationally in the NAIA, are 8-1 overall and 7-1 in the GPAC for a one-game advantage over Doane and Northwestern. Morningside can win the league crown outright with a victory against city rival Briar Cliff in next Saturday’s regular season finale at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
Morningside’s defense accounted for one of the touchdowns and held the Bulldogs to just 170 yards total offense, while the Mustangs’ special teams blocked a Concordia punt and a pair of field goal attempts. The Mustangs were especially impressive against the run as they stuffed the Bulldogs’ ground game for zero yards in 32 attempts.
Junior cornerback Colby Henderson was involved in much of the chaos the Mustangs created for Concordia. Henderson scored a touchdown with an 88-yard interception return to put the Mustangs ahead 7-0 less than five minutes into the game and was also the player who blocked both Concordia field goal attempts.
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 Matt Muschall, a 6-1, 255 lb. senior defensive lineman from Omaha, Neb., was one of 127 semifinalists for the 2011 William V. Campbell Trophy (formerly known as the Draddy Trophy) endowed by HealthSouth, and one of the candidates for the 2011 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete Awards.
The semifinalists were announced on Sept. 29 by the NFF and the College Football Hall of Fame.
Muschall has a 3.81 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with majors in engineering physics and applied computer science.
Muschall has collected five tackles, including 1.5 stops behind the line of scrimmage for losses of three yards, to go along with one fumble recovery and one quarterback hurry for the Mustangs’ defense so far this season. He earned honorable mention All-Great Plains Conference honors last season when he was the Mustangs’ co-leader with two forced fumbles and ranked among the team leaders with three quarterback sacks and three quarterback hurries.
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