News

GPAC Names All Conference

GPAC Names All Conference

Photo: WNAX


The Great Plains Athletic Conference has named its top basketball players of the year in both men’s and women’s divisions.

Jay Wolfe of Briar Cliff has been selected as the men’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year and headlines the GPAC Basketball All-Conference Teams for 2018-19. Wolfe, a senior, averaged 22.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game for the Chargers.

Other GPAC basketball honorees for 2018-19 include: Defensive Player-of-the-Year Tyler Borchers of Morningside; Freshman-of-the-Year Carter Kent of Concordia; and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach-of-the-Year Jim Sykes of Morningside.

Philly Lammers of Concordia University has been selected as the women’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year and headlines the GPAC Basketball All-Conference Teams for 2018-19. Lammers, a junior, averaged 14.7 points per game. She also averaged 6.3 rebounds, 2.6 steals and 1.3 blocks per game for the Bulldogs.

Other GPAC basketball honorees for 2018-19 include: Defensive Player-of-the-Year Rylie Osthus of Dakota Wesleyan; Freshman-of-the-Year Noelle Josephson of the University of Jamestown; and the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Coach-of-the-Year Bill Harmsen from Dordt.

Recent Headlines

3 weeks ago in Local

WHAT DOES MARIJUANA RECLASSIFICATION MEAN FOR SOUTH DAKOTA?

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – President Trump’s executive order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a…

3 weeks ago in Local

GOVERNOR RHODEN ANNOUNCES $200,000 GRANT SUPPORTING KEEP FARMERS FARMING PROGRAM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – On Monday, Governor Rhoden announced a $200,000 grant from the Future Fund for…

3 weeks ago in Local

ICE’S YEAR IN SOUTH DAKOTA, FROM SMALL TOWNS TO OPERATION: PRAIRIE THUNDER

SOUTH DAKOTA (Molly Wetsch / South Dakota News Watch) – Five months after Operation: Prairie Thunder officially began, the South Dakota…

4 weeks ago in Local

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE ECONOMIST SAYS FARM ECONOMY HAS HELD BACK SALES TAX REVENUES

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Joshua Haiar / South Dakota Searchlight) – South Dakota’s State Economist Derek Johnson told the state Banking…

4 weeks ago in Local

STATE SPENDS $43,000 IN TROOPER OVERTIME FOR OPERATION PRAIRIE THUNDER

PIERRE, S.D. (John Hult / South Dakota Searchlight) – The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says a saturation patrol…