Moore, Williams, Hansen Garner GPAC Honors
(Sioux City, Iowa) – Tate Martin of Dakota Wesleyan has been selected as the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men's Basketball Player-of-the-Year and headlines the GPAC Basketball All-Conference Teams for 2016-17. Martin, a senior, averaged 14.3 points, 2.5 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game for the Tigers who had the second best conference record in the GPAC going 13-5.
Other GPAC basketball honorees for 2016-17 include: Defensive Player-of-the-Year Chandler Folkerts from Concordia; Freshman-of-the-Year Ty Hoglund, from Dakota Wesleyan; and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach-of-the-Year Nic Nelson of Briar Cliff. The All-GPAC Basketball Teams and honors are selected by the league's 10 head coaches.
2016- 17 GPAC Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams
First Team (10 Members, Listed Alphabetically by Last Name):
Name | School | Height | Year | Position | Hometown |
Erich Erdman | Briar Cliff | 5-11 | Sophomore | G | Forest City, Iowa |
Chandler Folkerts | Concordia | 6-8 | Senior | C | Milford, Neb. |
Bryan Forbes | Briar Cliff | 6-5 | Senior | G | Lone Tree, Iowa |
Ty Hoglund | Dakota Wesleyan | 6-3 | Freshman | G | Dell Rapids, S.D. |
Bryce Koch | Morningside | 6-6 | Senior | C | Dell Rapids, S.D. |
Colton Kooima | Northwestern | 6-4 | Junior | G | Sioux Falls, S.D. |
Tate Martin* | Dakota Wesleyan | 5-11 | Senior | G | Mitchell, S.D. |
Damon Overton | Midland | 6-0 | Senior | G | East Moline, Ill. |
Alex Starkel | Midland | 6-7 | Senior | F | Norfolk, Neb. |
Jason Spicer | Dakota Wesleyan | 6-6 | Junior | C | Sioux Falls, S.D. |
*GPAC Player-of –the-Year
Second Team (10 Members, Listed Alphabetically by Last Name):
Name | School | Height | Year | Position | Hometown |
Brody Egger | Morningside | 6-2 | Sophomore | G | Urbandale, Iowa |
Shane Graves | Briar Cliff | 5-10 | Senior | G | Sioux City, Iowa |
Alec Henrickson | Dordt | 6-2 | Sophomore | G | Spirit Lake, Iowa |
Nate Kuhl | Doane | 6-7 | Senior | F | Tecumseh, Neb. |
Diamontae McKinley | Midland | 6-0 | Senior | G | Milwaukee, Wis. |
Trey Moore (SR/Omaha, NE) | Hastings | 5-11 | Senior | G | Papillion, Neb. |
Trae Vandeberg | Dakota Wesleyan | 6-3 | Junior | F | Madison, S.D. |
Rich Williams (SR/Scottsbluff, NE) | Hastings | 6-1 | Senior | G | Scottsbluff, Neb. |
Nathan Wedel | Northwestern | 6-4 | Junior | G | Yale, S.D. |
Eli Ziegler | Concordia | 6-0 | Senior | G | Littleton, Colo. |
Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Player-of-the-Year: Tate Martin, Dakota Wesleyan
GPAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year: Chandler Folkerts, Concordia
GPAC Freshman-of-the-Year: Ty Hoglund, Dakota Wesleyan
Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach-of-the-Year: Nic Nelson, Briar Cliff
Honorable Mention:
Briar Cliff: Jay Wolfe
Concordia:Seth Curran
Doane:Rylee Zimmerman, Mykeil Tzul
Dordt: Dalton Franken
Hastings: Jake Hansen (JR/Omaha, NE)
Midland: Chase Parsons
Morningside: Tyler Borchers, Alex Borchers, Ryan Tegtmeier
Mount Marty: OJ Thok, Patrick Ciganovic
Northwestern: Derek Buysse, Riley Francis, Jordan Baker
