Post season honors for the top men’s and women’s basketball players in the Great Plains Athletic Conference were announced Wednesday.
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.
Hanah Barnard of Doane University has been selected as the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year and headlines the GPAC Basketball All-Conference Teams for 2016-17. Barnard, a senior, averaged 20.9 points to lead the conference in scoring. She also averaged 4.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.2 steals per game for the Tigers.
Other GPAC basketball honorees for 2016-17 include: Defensive Player-of-the-Year Mary Janovich from Concordia; Freshman-of-the-Year Philomena Lammers from Concordia; and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach-of-the-Year Drew Olson from Concordia. The All-GPAC Basketball Teams and honors are selected by the league’s 11 head coaches.
