Poss And Montplaisir Named All-MIAC
MOORHEAD, Minn. (5/09/16)—The MIAC office announced that senior Landon Poss and junior Cade Montplaisir have officially been named to the MIAC All-Conference Team. Montplaisir was also the team's representative on the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team.
The league releases the All-Conference list after the spring portion of the season even though the conference championship meet takes place in the fall.
Poss and Montplaisir both earned MIAC All-Conference honors by virtue of their Top 10 finish at the conference tournament on Oct. 3-5.
Poss placed with a three-day total of 222 (78-75-69) while Montplaisir finished in third place after carding rounds of 73-70-77 and posting a final total of 220.
Poss earns All-Conference honors for a third time. He is one of only a handful of Cobber golfers to ever earn more than two All-Conference honors. Poss also took home the award as a freshman when he finished eighth at the MIAC Meet and when he finished second as a sophomore.
Poss' final score at this year's conference meet was the lowest of his three all-conference seasons. He fired a 227 (71-80-72) when he recorded the runner-up finish in 2013.
Poss was second on the team in scoring during the fall and spring seasons. He averaged 75.2 strokes over his 17 rounds and had three top 5 finishes and three top 10 finishes for the year. His low round of the season came in the third round of the conference tourney when he shot a 69. That score helped him move up 10 places in the individual standings and move from 15th up to fifth and into all-conference status.
Montplaisir earns his first-ever all-conference honor after fired the lowest three-round total at an MIAC meet by a Cobber athlete since 2010. Montplaisir's total of 220 was the lowest by a CC player since Andrew Whitchurch won the meet with a score of 215 back in 2010.
Montplaisir finished the year with the lowest scoring average of any Concordia player. Montplaisir averaged a score of 74.6 over his 19 rounds played in the fall and spring. He finished in the top 5 in three different events and had four top 10 finishes.
Like Poss, Montplaisir's low round of the year came at the MIAC Championship Meet. He carded a 2-under 70 in the second round which put him in the lead of the tournament heading into the final day of competition.
2015-16 MIAC MEN'S GOLF AWARDS
Player-of-the-Year - Pete Sienko, St. Thomas (So., Spring Lake Park, Minn.)
Freshman-of-the-Year - Max Savini, Gustavus (Fr., Anoka, Minn.)
Coach-of-the-Year - Scott Proshek, St. Thomas (6th season)
2015-16 MIAC MEN'S GOLF ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
| Name | School | Year | Hometown / High School |
| Michael Barrette | Augsburg | Jr. | Cohasset, Minn. / Grand Rapids |
| Chris Captain | Gustavus | So. | Rochester, Minn. / Century |
| Alex Case | Bethel | Jr. | Chaska, Minn. |
| Grant Exsted | Bethel | Jr. | Isle, Minn. |
| Ryan Gallagher | Saint John's | Jr. | Shoreview, Minn. / Mounds View |
| Brett Gaustad | Augsburg | Jr. | Woodbury, Minn. / Hill-Murray |
| Dillon John | Bethel | Sr. | Shoreview, Minn. / Mounds View |
| Andrew Krasaway | Gustavus | Sr. | Hermantown, Minn. |
| Cade Montplaisir | Concordia | Jr. | Mesa, Ariz. / Dobson |
| Nick Nielsen | St. Thomas | Jr. | Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson |
| Landon Poss | Concordia | Sr. | Fargo, N.D. / South |
| Jack Riester | St. Thomas | Sr. | Minneapolis, Minn. / Holy Angels |
| Max Savini | Gustavus | Fr. | Anoka, Minn. |
| Pete Sienko | St. Thomas | So. | Spring Lake Park, Minn. |
| Bennett Smed | Bethel | Sr. | Chaska, Minn. / Holy Family |
2015-16 MEN'S GOLF ALL-MIAC SPORTSMANSHIP TEAM
Augsburg - Kyle Korva (Jr., Ostego, Minn. / Rogers)
Bethel - Nick Manoles (Sr., Golden Valley, Minn. / Minnehaha Academy)
Carleton - Brian Herlihy (Sr., Danbury, Conn. / Immaculate)
Concordia - Cade Montplaisir (Jr., Mesa, Ariz. / Dobson)
Gustavus - Andrew Krasaway (Sr., Hermantown, Minn.)
Macalester - Sam Brancazio (Fy., Swarthmore, Pa. / Strath Haven)
Saint John's - Austin Zopfi (Sr., Worden, Mont. / Huntley Project)
Saint Mary's - Blake Westerberg (Sr., Red Wing, Minn.)
St. Olaf - Charlie Johnson (Sr., Excelsior, Minn. / Minnetonka)
St. Thomas - Jack Riester (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn. / Holy Angels)