GPAC

Q&A with Corey Westra: GPAC commissioner earns NAIA national administrator

In his 10th year as the Great Plains Athletic Conference Commissioner, Corey Westra was announced the 2013 recipient of the Charles Morris NAIA Administrator of the Year Award earlier this week.

By Aaron Saunders , April 20, 2013

Endres, Little earn first-team all-GPAC honors as seniors

Dakota Wesleyan University offensive lineman Nathan Little and running back Josh Endres received first-team all-Great Plains Athletic Conference honors, it was announced by the league Tuesday.

By Luke Hagen , November 14, 2012

Endres, Little earn first-team all-GPAC honors as seniors

Dakota Wesleyan University offensive lineman Nathan Little and running back Josh Endres received first-team all-Great Plains Athletic Conference honors, it was announced by the league Tuesday.

By Luke Hagen , November 14, 2012

Christensen says team gunning for national tourney

Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball coach Jason Christensen is ready for his team to make the national tournament.

By Luke Hagen , October 03, 2012

Weekend Sports briefs: 5/12-5/13

Megan Solberg was named to the all-GPAC women’s tennis team after her freshman season with Morningside College.

By Sports staff , May 12, 2012

DWU basketball players earn all-GPAC honors

The Great Plains Athletic Conference announced its basketball all-conference honors on Wednesday.

February 29, 2012

Morningside beats Dakota Wesleyan women 68-58

There’s 40 minutes in a college basketball game, but sometimes it takes just a few minutes to put a team in a hole that it can’t get out of. So went Dakota Wesleyan women’s Great Plains Athletic Conference game with Morningside Wednesday at the Corn Palace. The Tigers fell to the Mustangs, ranked fifth in the NAIA, 68-58 to fall to 5-10 in the GPAC and 14-11 overall.

By OWEN REITZEL , February 02, 2012

Tigers start fast, lose GPAC game

The Dakota Wesleyan University men’s basketball team came out firing and led 11-0 early in the first quarter, but struggled from then on, falling 81-59 to Morningside College on Wednesday night at the Corn Palace. The loss drops Dakota Wesleyan to 14-11 overall and 6-9 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. The Tigers will look to bounce back on Saturday as they travel to take on Midland in a GPAC game with a 4 p.m. tipoff.

By Kevin Pottebaum , February 02, 2012

UPDATE: Malloy rejects reinstatement to USF basketball team

University of Sioux Falls senior men’s basketball players Matt Malloy and Eric Tisby were partially reinstated Friday by coach Chris Johnson. However, Malloy, a Parkston native, and Tisby rejected the reinstatement offer late this afternoon, according to USF Sports Information Director Matt Stull.

By Sports Staff , February 25, 2011

COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: Jamestown College applies to the GPAC

Jamestown College (N.D), a private institution that belongs to the rapidly dissipating Dakota Athletic Conference, has applied to join the Great Plains Athletic Conference.

By Chris Aarhus , October 05, 2010

Just out of reach

Midland spoils DWU homecoming with two-touchdown rally in fourth
Andrew Hawley ruined a homecoming that was bent on revenge.

By CHRIS AARHUS , October 04, 2010

GPAC announces schedule changes

Two weeks after the closing of Dana College in Blair, Neb., the Great Plains Athletic Conference has announced schedule changes for the 2010-11 academic year for football, volleyball and basketball. Like every school in the GPAC, Dakota Wesleyan University saw some necessary changes to its schedules. But because of the atypical circumstances, DWU athletic director Curt Hart was pleased that the school was notified of the changes in a timely manner.

By Travis Mester , July 14, 2010

Dana closes its doors

Less than two months before the start of the 2010-11 school year, Dana College announced Wednesday night that it was closing its doors forever. The sudden closure leaves more than 600 full- and part-time students and roughly 130 employees searching for a place to work or go to school this fall. It also creates quite a dilemma for the other 12 schools in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.

July 02, 2010

USF named College Fanz’s preseason top-ranked football team

The College Fanz Sports Network has tabbed the University of Sioux Falls as the top team in its annual preseason football rankings, it was announced Monday.

By Sports staff , June 29, 2010

DWU has lowest average coaching tenure in GPAC

When the 2010-11 school year starts in a few months, there will be two new faces in the crowd in the Dakota Wesleyan University athletic department. New faces are something DWU is familiar with. The university, whose longest-tenured coaches will enter their sixth years with the school this fall, has an average tenure of 3.7 years among its 13 head coaching positions. That average is the lowest among the 13 schools in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, of which the university is a part. The GPAC school with the longest average tenure among its coaches is Midland Lutheran, in Fremont, Neb., at 12.2 years.

June 05, 2010