Mount Mercy Competitive Dance Selected 2023 Musco Team Sportsmanship Award Winners

For their display of the NAIA's Five Core Character Values of Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, Sportsmanship & Servant Leadership, Mount Mercy University has been selected the 2023 Musco Team Sportsmanship Award recipient for the sport of competitive dance, announced by the Heart of America Athletic Conference.

"This award was developed by the Heart Association of Student-Athletes (HASA) and I am proud to see this award recognized for a second-straight year across the conference," said Heart of America Athletic Conference Commissioner Lori Thomas. "Under head coach Taylor Cass, the Mustangs are very deserving of this award."

Teams are nominated by Athletics Administrators, Game Officials, Coaches, Student-Athletes and Fans.

Here is what the nominators had to say about the Mustangs:

"At competitions this year, the Mount Mercy Dance Team has supported other teams by genuinely wishing them good luck & telling them what a good job they did after competing, increasing the energy in the stands while cheering for other teams, and even sitting down in the front alongside the team members and coach of another team when their numbers were low and needed encouragement to push through. They have a sincere love of this sport and are willing to put competitiveness aside after they have done their part on the floor to hype other teams up, regardless of rankings."

For the winter season, the Heart will be awarding its Team Sportsmanship award to one team from each sport of competitive cheer, competitive dance, women's wrestling, men's wrestling, men's basketball, women's basketball and bowling.

If you would like to nominate a team in the future for the Musco Team Sportsmanship Award, please click here.

The Heart would like to thank Musco Sports Lighting for serving as the sponsor of this award.

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