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GPAC Tabs Year’s Best

GPAC Tabs Year’s Best

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The 2019 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Football All-Conference Team has been selected after a vote of the league coaches on Sunday, November 17.

Tyson Kooima of Northwestern has been named the Offensive Player-of-the-Year. Tanner Machacek of Northwestern was named the Defensive Player-of-the-Year. Steve Ryan of Morningside College was named the Coach-of-the-Year.

Morningside was the regular season conference champion for 2019 finishing 9-0 in GPAC play and 10-0 overall. The Mustangs and regular season runner-up, Northwestern, qualified for the NAIA Football Championship Series which opens on Saturday, November 23, with first round action.

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