For the 11th consecutive season, Concordia-St. Paul has been picked to win the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference volleyball crown in a vote of league coaches.
Northern State's Kelsey Chambers is the coaches preseason Player of the Year.
The University of Sioux Falls is picked fifth and Augustana sixth in the 2014 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference football coaches poll. Minnesota-Duluth is the favorite to win the conference this year.
Augustana College will hold bragging rights for the second straight year as the winner of the 2013-14 Sioux Falls Mayor's Cup Challenge with the University of Sioux Falls.
Thousands gathered on the campus of Northern State University on Saturday for a memorial service to honor longtime college basketball coach Don Meyer, whose friends said his legacy of compassion for others would surpass even his accomplishments on the court.
Tavia Rutherford of the University of Sioux Falls and Augustana's Kayla Mescher have been awarded the Butch Raymond Scholarship by the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
Don Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday in Aberdeen. He was 69.