Mitchell earns GPAC weekly award

Morningside University senior women's basketball player Sierra Mitchell (Pleasant Hill, Iowa) was named the Great Plains Athletic Conference's Player of the Week for Feb. 21-27, 2022.

Mitchell, running a current streak of double-digit scoring outings to 13 straight, posted 30 against eighth-seeded Hastings College and 16 versus fourth-seeded Northwestern College in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the postseason tournament. Her efforts helped lead the top-seeded and regular-season champion Mustangs to the tournament championship for a second successive season.