SMSU Athletics

December 13, 2013 – Hoof Prints Article

Hello Mustang Fans!

I would like to start off by congratulating both the SMSU Football and Volleyball teams for great seasons and providing our Mustang fans an exciting fall for all of us to support. Both programs ended their seasons on a high note with Mustang Football making an appearance in the Mineral Water Bowl and Mustang Volleyball earning their 10th consecutive showing in the NCAA Volleyball Central Region Championship. Thank you to our coaches and student-athletes for all their hard work.

The Mustang Soccer program was nationally ranked for six weeks this fall by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire National College Top 25. SMSU, in the last ranking of the year announced this Tuesday, capped off an amazing year by ending the season ranked #18 in the country. We are very proud of the hard work and success of our fall sports teams.

Mustang Head Football Coach, Cory Sauter, will be featured on Mike Max’s television show “Life to the Max” on WCCO-TV (Channel 4, Minneapolis) this Saturday evening. It is great to see one of our own in the sports spotlight of the Twin Cities news.

Mark your calendars! The 11th Annual Gold Rush Raffle hosted by the Mustang Booster Club will be held on Friday, February 14 in the Conference Center Ballroom beginning with a social at 6:00 pm. Gold Rush Raffle tickets will be available towards the end of December.

For all the latest information on the Mustang Gold Rush Raffle and SMSU Athletics go to SMSUmustangs.com.

This Week in SMSU Athletics

The SMSU Men’s Basketball team (4-4, 2-1 NSIC) beat both Augustana College and Wayne State College last weekend to kick-off the home NSIC schedule. The Mustangs will travel to Fayette, IA, to battle Upper Iowa University (3-6, 1-2 NSIC), and first year Head Coach, Brooks McKowen, this Friday with tip-off scheduled for 8:00 p.m. SMSU will then travel to  Winona State University (7-2, 3-0 NSIC) on Saturday to take on the Warriors. SMSU will return home next week for a couple of home contests versus Wisconsin-LaCrosse (non-conference) on December 19 and Sioux Falls (NSIC game) on December 21.

The SMSU Women’s Basketball team (2-5, NSIC 0-3) is coming off a pair of losses to Augustana College and Wayne State College, both nationally ranked teams. The Mustangs will head down to Upper Iowa University (2-5, 1-2 NSIC) on Friday with a 6:00 p.m. start time in Fayette, IA. On Saturday, SMSU will be in Winona, MN, to take on the Winona State Warriors (4-3, 0-3 NSIC) in the second contest of the NSIC road trip. The next contest for the Mustangs will be at home in an NSIC match-up against USF on December 21.

The SMSU Wrestling team went 2-1 this weekend in the Wisconsin-Lacrosse Duals beating Waldorf College 27-15 before losing to the host school Wisconsin-Lacrosse 15-25. The Mustangs finished the day off with a 33-10 win over Wisconsin-Eau Claire. SMSU is 2-2 in dual matches heading into this Friday’s contest with St. John’s in Collegeville, MN starting at 7:00 p.m. On Saturday, Southwest wrestlers will compete in the St. Cloud State Open beginning at 9:00 a.m. This will be the last competition for the Mustangs until January 11th when they host Minot State in the PE Gym at 4:00 p.m.

The SMSU Wheelchair Basketball team showed great improvement last week at the University of Missouri but still weren’t able to pick up their first win of the season. The Mustangs are 0-8 on the season heading to Lincoln, NE, this Saturday and Sunday to compete against four very good club teams. On Saturday, Southwest will take on the Madonna Magic at noon before battling Sioux Falls at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, SMSU will play the Timberwolves at 8:30 a.m. and Iowa at 11:30 a.m.

I would like to wish all of our teams the best of luck this weekend!

Go Mustangs!

No one was able to provide the correct answer to last week’s Mustang Hoofprint’s Trivia Question: John Sterner, Leon Bullerman, and Link Steffen all earned a National Championship as members of the SMSU Wrestling program. SMSU has also had three individuals who took 2nd Place in the National Championships, can you name the three Mustang Wrestlers? Scott Dubbledee (1984), Bill McDonald (1988) and Troy Mentzer (1993) all placed 2nd in the NAIA National Championships and earned All-American status at their respective weight classes for the SMSU Wrestling Program.

Hoofprints Trivia Question (please put this in a box with the title on top)

What SMSU Women’s Basketball player was an All American two different years during her career?

The first person to email me at MustangHoofPrints@SMSU.edu with the correct answer to this question will receive an SMSU t-shirt.