2023 GPAC Cheer and Dance Honors Announced
(Sioux City, Iowa) – The 2023 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Cheer and Dance All-Conference Team has been selected.
Izzy Smith from Midland University was selected as the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Cheer Athlete-of-the-Year and Kelsey Brady from Doane University has been selected as the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Dance Athlete-of-the-Year.
To be selected to the All-Conference teams the student-athletes needed to perform a set of skills as outlined by the NAIA Cheer and Dance Coaches' Handbook. A minimum score on these skills (as judged) was required for selection to the teams.
Joe Erickson from Mount Marty was named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Cheer Coach-of-the-Year. Mel Knobloch from Dordt and Ashley Lyon from Doane was named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Dance Co-Coaches-of-the-Year.
The Midland Cheer and Doane Dance teams won the GPAC Championships on Friday and Saturday, February 24-25, at Doane University in Crete, Nebraska.