MITCHELL, S.D. – Three members of the Dakota Wesleyan University track and field team are ready to compete at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships. Senior sprinter Tamika Irvin and freshmen distance runners Hailey Brunke and Nicole Court-Menendez all qualified for nationals, which run May 23-25 at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. [...]
Lauren Fitts Adam Anderson please MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team makes its 10th appearance at the NAIA Women’s Golf National Championships next week, and the Tigers are hoping their 10th appearance goes as well as the first. DWU, which has qualified for nationals each year since the 2003-04 season, finished [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University softball program has a new assistant coach, head coach Ed Kieff announced earlier this week, but he is definitely not a new face to the program or the sport of softball in the city of Mitchell. Jim Misiaszek takes over as Kieff’s top assistant after the graduation of [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball coach Jason Christensen has been looking for a point guard for the 2013-14 season, and Monday afternoon he announced that he found one. Savannah Minder, a junior transfer from Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., signed with the Tigers earlier this month and will join the program in [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan University men’s soccer coach Jeremy Tosaya added a pair of junior transfers to the Tiger men’s 2013 roster, he announced this week. Ryan West and Jon Wieger both plan to join the program in August, and both come to Dakota Wesleyan with junior eligibility. West, a Sioux Falls, S.D., native, [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Three members of the Dakota Wesleyan University baseball program are getting a taste of the Southwest this summer. Tiger baseball assistant coach Kevin Nunn and recent DWU baseball graduates Michael Lukkason and Erik Nockleby are in Alamogordo, N.M., for the summer, coaching for and competing with the White Sands Pupfish – a [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Freshman Hailey Unger and sophomore Katie Anderus led the Dakota Wesleyan University softball team all season. The duo finished first and second on the team in batting average, hits and on-base percentage this season. Thursday, both athletes earned All-Great Plains Athletic Conference honors, it was announced by the league. Unger, the team’s [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – In September, Michael Lukkason tore his ACL during a scrimmage as part of the Dakota Wesleyan University baseball team’s fall season. On Feb. 8, Lukkason appeared as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of the Tigers’ first game of the season against Montana State University-Billings at the Metrodome. He was the [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Two members of the Dakota Wesleyan University men’s golf team earned All-Great Plains Athletic Conference First Team honors, it was announced Tuesday morning by the league. Senior Travis Johnson earned the third conference honor and junior Austin Hieb both earned the first All-GPAC honors of his career after finishing in the top [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – For the fifth straight year, the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s golf team swept the major Great Plains Athletic Conference postseason awards and also landed four golfers on the All-GPAC First Team, it was announced Tuesday morning by the league. Freshman Lauren Fitts is the GPAC Women’s Golfer-of-the-Year and head coach Adam Anderson [...]