Press Release
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - On Thursday, the Great American Conference announced the 64 entrants into its Greatest Record of All-Time bracket. All 12 GAC schools had at least three selections and all 16 conference sports had at least one representative.
Selection and seeding for the records were determined by the following factors
- The separation between the record and second place
- How long the record has stood
- Where the record stands in Division II
All voting takes place on the GAC's Twitter account
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Track & Field | Josh Syrotchen, Harding | 60.56m discus throw | 4/2/2016 |
NOTABLE: Syrotchen’s throw as his home meet tops the GAC record book in this event. He owns the top 10 throws in GAC history. The top mark from a GAC thrower not named Syrotchen checks in a full nine meters (more than 30 feet) behind Syrotchen’s top attempt.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Cross Country | Ewa Zaborowska, Harding | 1:22.3 winning margin | 10/24/2015 |
NOTABLE: Zabrowska not only set the league’s record for winning margin at the GAC Women’s Cross Country Championships, she set the championship record and the league’s 5K time record with a 16:44.75 mark. No other woman ever has broken the 17-minute mark.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Arkansas Tech | 35-game win streak | 2017 |
NOTABLE: In Kristy Bayer’s final season as the Golden Suns head coach, she led her squad to an undefeated regular season as well as their their fourth GAC regular-season and tournament championships. They posted the best win-loss percentage in Division II (.972). No GAC team has won more than 21 games in a row.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Brooke Goad, Southern Arkansas | 90 career home runs | 2014-18 |
NOTABLE: Goad set the NCAA Division II career record for home runs with 90. No GAC player has hit more than 74 and no Division II player has hit more than 83.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Brooke Goad, Southern Arkansas | 32 home runs in a season | 2018 |
NOTABLE: Goad set the NCAA Division II single-season record for home runs with 32 in 2018. No GAC player has hit more than 22 and no Division II player had ever reached 30 home runs in a season.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Golf | Arkansas Tech | 50-shot Championship margin | 2015 |
NOTABLE: The Golden Suns won their first of five consecutive GAC championships by 50 shots as they placed four golfers inside the top five. No GAC team has won the conference title by more than 23 shots.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Eddy Carmona, Harding | 62 Yard field goal | 11/5/2011 |
NOTABLE: Carmona’s 62-yard field goal ranks 10 yards farther than any other made field goal in GAC history. Only one kicker in Division II has made a 60-yard field goal since the creation of the GAC.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Henderson State | 31-game road win streak | 2011-17 |
NOTABLE: The Reddies establish a Division II record for consecutive road wins as their 31-game streak spans more than six years. The register 12 wins by at least 20 points during the run.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Marissa Butler, Ouachita | Consecutive 7-inning no-hitters | 4/14-15/2018 |
NOTABLE: Butler becomes the first GAC softball pitcher to record consecutive seven-inning no-hitters as she shuts out Northwestern Oklahoma State on consecutive days. In both games, she strikes out five
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Southwestern Oklahoma State | 35-game win streak | 2018-19 |
NOTABLE: As part of the Lady Bulldogs’ run to the NCAA Division II National Championship game, SWOSU shatters the GAC record for consecutive wins, 35. No other GAC school has ever won more than 18 straight games. The streak ranks as the seventh-longest in DII history
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Southern Arkansas | 15 straight elimination game wins in Enid | 2012-18 |
NOTABLE: As part of winning five consecutive GAC Championships when the event is contested at David Allen Ball Park in Enid, SAU strings together 15 straight wins when facing elimination. In both 2014 and 2018, the Muleriders win the title despite losing their first game of the tournament.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Zoe Hardin, Harding | 650 career blocks | 2015-18 |
NOTABLE: Hardin, the league’s two-time Player of the Year, established the GAC career record for blocks by the end of her junior season. Her 650 blocks rank 187 ahead of second place. Only 129 blocks separates second place from 10th. She led the league in blocks in each of her four seasons
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Hailey Tucker, SWOSU | 2,360 career points | 2015-19 |
NOTABLE: Tucker became the first GAC basketball player, male or female, to reach the 2,000-point milestone. Her 2,360 points places her almost 500 points ahead of her closest GAC competitor and ranks in the top 20 in NCAA Division II history
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Arkansas Tech | 22 straight wins | 2014 |
NOTABLE: The Wonder Boys establish the league’s record for consecutive wins, 22, en route to winning the league’s regular-season title and earning the No. 1 seed in the Central Regional. Prior to Tech’s streak, no GAC team had won more than 12 straight games. No GAC team has won more than 19 games in a row.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Kevin Rodgers, Henderson State | 333.6 passing yards per game | 2011-14 |
NOTABLE: Rodgers produces a career average of 333.6 passing yards per game, an average that ranks as the third-best mark in NCAA Division II history and places him more than 50 yards per game ahead of second place in league history. He recorded 26 300-yard passing games in his 41 career games.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Basketball | Jhonathan Dunn, Southern Nazarene | 811 points in a season | 2019-20 |
NOTABLE: Despite not getting to play in the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championships for a third-straight season, Dunn shatters the league’s single-season point total by 70 points. He scored at least 20 points in 26 of the Crimson Storm’s 32 games, no player in league history has recorded more than 18 20-point games in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Basketball | Adam Dworsky, Southeastern Oklahoma State | 261 assists in a season | 2019-20 |
NOTABLE: Like Dunn, Dworsky also saw his record-breaking season end prematurely. He became the first GAC player to reach the 200- and 250-assist milestone in a single season as well as the first player in the league history to average at least 8.0 assists per game.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Jalissa Gum, Arkansas Tech | 0.60 ERA in a season | 2016 |
NOTABLE: Gum establishes the league’s single-season record for ERA with the first, and still only, qualifying ERA under 1.00 at 0.60. No Division II pitcher posted a lower single-season ERA between 2013 and 2017. Additionally in 2016, her .138 batting average against also sets a GAC record.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Basketball | Southeastern Oklahoma State vs Harding | 28 points in an overtime | 2/23/2017 |
NOTABLE: When Southeastern Oklahoma State notches a 121-112 overtime victory against Harding, they do so by matching the NCAA Division II record most points in an overtime period, 28. The combined 47 points in the overtime period by the Savage Storm and Bisons set the DII record.
| Sport | Names, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Gage Porter & Nate Walker, Southern Nazarene | 99-yard touchdown pass | 11/11/2018 |
NOTABLE: The longest play from scrimmage in GAC history can not be broken as Southern Nazarene’s Gage Porter and Nate Walker connected on a 99-yard touchdown pass against Oklahoma Baptist, the 43rd 99-yard completion in NCAA Division II history.
| Sport | Schools | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Arkansas Tech and Henderson State | 44 combined strikeouts | 3/12/2017 |
NOTABLE: In playing the longest softball game in GAC history, Arkansas Tech’s Jalissa Gum and Henderson State’s Michelle Sorensen combined for 44 strikeouts, one shy of the NCAA Division II single-game record. Gum struck out 23 but Sorensen earned the win in the 3-2 game.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Track & Field | Leah Molter, Oklahoma Baptist | 13.70 100-meter hurdles | 4/8/2017 |
NOTABLE: Molter, the conference’s four-time champion in the 100-meter hurdles, claims all 10 spots on the league’s fastest times chart for the event. No GAC runner has clocked a time faster than 14.38 while Molter record five sub-14 second times.
| Sport | Schools | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Northwestern Oklahoma State | 4 blocked kicks in a game | 11/2/2019 |
NOTABLE: Northwestern Oklahoma State blocked two punts, an extra point and a field goal against Oklahoma Baptist. No GAC team blocked more than four kicks the entire 2019 season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Davis Ward, Ouachita | 24 career complete games | 2012-14 |
NOTABLE: Ward, the league’s only two-time Pitcher of the Year, first set the league’s single-season record for complete games with 10 in 2013. He finished his time as a Tiger with 24 complete games, 11 more than any other GAC hurler.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Trevor Rucker, Southern Arkansas | 100 career stolen bases | 2014-17 |
NOTABLE: Rucker, who owns 10 GAC career records, finished his career with exactly 100 stolen bases, 30 more than the closest player. He stole at least 20 bases in all four seasons.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Tennis | Kim Moosbacher, Oklahoma Baptist | 24 singles wins in a season | 2017 |
NOTABLE: Moosbacher helped the Lady Bisons set the GAC single-season record for wins, 27, by posting a 24-1 record in singles play. The Lady Bisons captured the NCCAA National Championship
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Golf | Michael Hearne, Southern Nazarene | 9-shot Championship margin | 2014 |
NOTABLE: Hearne, a two-time All-American and GAC Player of the Year, capped his 2014 season by claiming his sixth title in nine events at the GAC Championships. He won medalist honors by nine shots. His final round 7-under par 65 set the single-round record. No other GAC men’s champion has won by more than five shots.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Corey Wood, Arkansas-Monticello | 26 home runs in a season | 2016 |
NOTABLE: En route to earning the GAC Player of the Year award and the Willingham Division II MVP Award, Wood shattered the league’s single-season home run record with 26 for the Weevils. At the time, no GAC player had hit more than 16 home runs and to this date, no one has hit more than 20.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Henderson State | 53.2 points per game | 2013 |
NOTABLE: In 2013, the Reddies led NCAA Division II in scoring at 53.2 points per game. It represented the highest average for a DII team since 2004. The 639 points ranks 85 points higher than the second-highest total in GAC history. The Reddies also led DII in total offense and passing yards per game
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Arkansas-Monticello | 87.0 field-goal percentage in a half | 11/9/2013 |
NOTABLE: In the second half of their season-opening game against Lindenwood, the Blossoms set an NCAA Division II record by connecting on 87.0 percent of their shots (20-for-23) from the floor. Jordan Goforth goes 10-for-10 in the half and UAM as a team makes all six of its 3-point tries.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Jalissa Gum, Arkansas Tech | 371 strikeouts in a season | 2017 |
NOTABLE: One year after recording 264 strikeouts, the second-best single-season total in league history, Gum establishes the league’s single-season record with 371. Only one other pitcher has reached the 300-strikeout total. In 2017, she ranked second in NCAA Division II in the category.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | John Mauldin, Arkansas-Monticello | 4 home runs in a game | 4/5/2019 |
NOTABLE: Mauldin sets GAC single-game records for home runs and total bases when he slugs four against Oklahoma Baptist. He homered in each of his first three at bats, singled in his fourth at bat and homered in his final at bat to amass 17 total bases.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Softball | Lindsay Thorstenson, Northwestern Oklahoma State | 4 home runs in a game | 4/12/2014 |
NOTABLE: Thorstenson homers in each of the first four innings of the Rangers’ 17-4 win against Southeastern Oklahoma State. She becomes the seventh player in NCAA Division II history to hit four home runs in a game
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Drew Harris, Ouachita | 7 touchdowns in a game | 11/11/2017 |
NOTABLE: Harris becomes the first, and still only, player in league history to score seven touchdowns in a game as he accounted for all of Ouachita’s scores in a 49-42 win against rival Henderson State. His first three scores came on pass receptions. He followed with four rushing touchdowns.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Adrianna Nolly, Ouachita | .864 attack percentage in a game | 8/31/2018 |
NOTABLE: Nolly sets the GAC record for hitting percentage against an NCAA Division II opponent when she hits .864 against Southwest Baptist. She tallied 19 kills and does not commit an error on any of her 22 attempts.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Harding | 5,128 rushing yards in a season | 2017 |
NOTABLE: Powered by its flexbone offense, Harding has led the GAC in rushing all nine years. The Bisons ran for 5,128 in advancing to the semifinals NCAA Division II Football Championships. After Harding, no GAC team has rushed for more than 3,500 yards in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Soccer | Thiago Dos Santos, Oklahoma Baptist | 5 goals and 10 points in a game | 11/29/2016 |
NOTABLE: At the NCCAA National Championships, Dos Santos sets the league’s single-game records for goals and points when he nets five tallies for 10 points in a 7-4 win against Houghton College. Only one other GAC player has even scored four goals in a game.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Golf | Peerada Piddon, Arkansas Tech | 9-shot Championship margin | 2018 |
NOTABLE: Piddon carded two of the seven best round in GAC Women’s Golf Championship history to post the first under-par 54-hole total in event history. She finished nine strokes clear of the field. No other GAC medalist has won by more than five shots.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Soccer | Alimata Rabo Southwestern Oklahoma State | 68 points in a season | 2017 |
NOTABLE: Rabo led the Bulldogs to their third GAC Women’s Soccer Championship crown and their first appearance in the NCAA Division II Central Region final as she set the league’s single-season records for goals, points and shots. Her 68 points broke the prior record by 15 points. No GAC player has come within 11 points of her mark.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Rosie Silva, Arkansas Tech | 5.0 steals per game for a career | 2011-13 |
NOTABLE: Silva claimed the league’s first two Defensive Player of the Year as she averaged 5.0 steals per game. Only one other GAC player has even averaged 3.0 steals per game for their career. She owns the fourth-highest per game average in NCAA Division II history and the top average for any DII player to have started their career after 2003.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Lindsay Dusin, Southwestern Oklahoma State | 13 career triple doubles | 2011-12 |
NOTABLE: Dusin notched eight triple doubles in 2011 and five more in 2012 to set the GAC career record in the category. No GAC player has tallied more than three in a season and four in a career
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Henderson State | 3 punts returned for touchdowns in a game | 9/22/2012 |
NOTABLE: As part of a 56-20 win against Southeastern Oklahoma State, Henderson State returns three punts for touchdowns. Robert Jordan runs back kicks of 69 and 85 yards for scores and Chuck Obi adds a return blocked punt for the third score. In only two instances has a GAC team even returned two punts in a game for touchdowns.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Tennis | Ouachita | 8 straight GAC Championship wins | 2012-15 |
NOTABLE: Ouachita begins the GAC era by winning eight straight Men’s Tennis Championship matches and becomes the first GAC program in any sport to win four straight tournament titles. No GAC program has won more than four tournament matches in a row
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Devin Benton Southwestern Oklahoma State | 23.0 tackles-for-loss in a season | 2014 |
NOTABLE: In a season that resulted in him winning the GAC Defensive Player of the Year award, Benton records 23.0 tackles for loss, a mark that ranks fourth in NCAA Division II. No other GAC player has even reached 20.0 tackles for loss in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Golf | Michael Hearne, Southern Nazarene | Low 18-hole record (62) | 9/9/2013 |
NOTABLE: Hearne produces the lowest 18-hole score by a GAC men’s golfer when he posts a 10-under par 62 in the final round of the GAC Preview to overcome a five-stroke deficit and claim medalist honors. Four golfers have carded rounds of 63 since Hearne’s 62.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Stormi Leonard , Ouachita | 4,766 career assists | 2015-18 |
NOTABLE: Leonard, the league’s only two-time Setter of the Year, also owns the GAC’s record for assists in a match. She dished out at least 1,000 assists in all four seasons. Her total 4,766 assists puts her more than 600 clear of second place.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Lakin Preisner, ECU | 95.6 Free-Throw Percentage in a season | 2017-18 |
NOTABLE: Preisner connected of 65-of-68 free-throw attempts to lead the Division II with a 95.6 percentage. She made 26-straight free throws over an eight-game span. The percentage ranks as the top mark in DII in nine years.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Cross Country | East Central | 33-point GAC Championship winning margin | 2014 |
NOTABLE: The Tigers won their third GAC Men’s Cross Country Championship title in four years by matching the best team score in meet history with 17 points. ECU became the first, and stilly only, team to place runners in each of the top four positions. They finished 33 points clear of Harding. ECU owns the top six winning margins in league history.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Lunden Azuara, Southeastern Oklahoma State | 684 points in a season | 2011 |
NOTABLE: Azuara earned the league’s first Player of the Year honor as she set five single-season records that remain to this day. No GAC player has even reached 600 points in a season and her total ranks 100.5 points clear of second place.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Logan Genz, Arkansas Tech | 480 career tackles | 2012-15 |
NOTABLE: Genz owns at least a share of the GAC’s single-game, single-season and career record for total tackles. His 480 total stops ranks seventh in NCAA Division II history. He recorded at least 100 tackles in all four seasons
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Soccer | Corey LaMoureaux, SWOSU | 14 shutouts in a season | 2012 |
NOTABLE: Southwestern Oklahoma State posted an undefeated regular season at 20-0-1 and set the league’s single-season records for shutouts and goals-against average. Corey LaMoureaux registered 14 saves, four more than any GAC keeper as totaled in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Baseball | Nick Spini, East Central | .430 average in a season | 2015 |
NOTABLE: Spini sets the league’s single-season record for batting average as his .430 clip breaks the record by 21 points. In the four years since, no GAC player has posted an average better than .411
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Soccer | Tinashe Chigede, Ouachita | 7 game-winning goals in a seson | 2017 |
NOTABLE: In helping the Tigers claim their second GAC Men’s Soccer Championship title, Chigede netted seven game-winning goals, a total that ranked fifth in NCAA Division II. In GAC history, no other player has tallied more than five game-winning goals in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | DaVondrick Lison, Southern Arkansas | 7 forced fumbles in a season | 2015 |
NOTABLE: In a dominating freshman season, Lison leads NCAA Division II with seven forced fumbles, the third-best single season total in DII history. No GAC player has forced more than four fumbles in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Cole Antley, Ouachita | 372 career points | 2015-18 |
NOTABLE: In four years as the Tiger kicker, Antley’s 372 points scored places him 90 points clear of second place in league history. More points separate him from second place – Southeastern Oklahoma State’s Devlon Wortham- than from second place to 22nd place in league history.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Aminata Fall, Southern Nazarene | 430 rebounds in a season | 2012-13 |
NOTABLE: Fall led the GAC in rebounding three straight years and her 13.5 rebounds per game for her career leads the league by almost four rebounds per game. In 2012-13 she pulled down 430 rebounds, 102 more than any other GAC player totaled in one season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Kaitlyn Lucy, Oklahoma Baptist | 978 digs in a season | 2015 |
NOTABLE: Lucy obliterated the GAC’s single-season record for digs when she collected 978 in 2015. She passed the record by 278 and to this day no player has even reached the 900 or 800 total in a season.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | James King, Southern Arkansas | 325 all-purpose Yards in a game | 10/22/2011 |
NOTABLE: King’s record of 325 all-purpose yards in a game stands as one of just three GAC individual single-game record set in the league’s inaugural year yet to be topped. In the 53-43 contest against the Tigers, he caught 10 passes for 171 yards, returned six kicks for 144 yards and added 10 yards on a punt return
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Golf | Rebecka Surtevall, Arkansas Tech | Low 54-hole total (206) | 10/3-5/2014 |
NOTABLE: At the 12-team Golfweek Fall Invitational that featured 10 nationally-ranked teams, Surtevall wins the medalist honor by seven shots with a three-round total of 7-under par 206. Her 54-hole total also ranks seven shots better than any GAC golfer in league history.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Soccer | Northwestern Oklahoma State | 69 shots in a game | 9/13/2019 |
NOTABLE: In an 11-0 win against Oklahoma Panhandle State, the Rangers fire off 69 shots against the Aggies, breaking the GAC record by eight shots. In the dominating victory, Northwestern Oklahoma State did not allow Oklahoma Panhandle State to record even one shot.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Volleyball | Sydney Skelton, Henderson State | 54 digs in a four-set match | 11/8/2016 |
NOTABLE: Skelton totals 54 digs in a contest against Arkansas-Monticello, the GAC record for both four-set matches and the overall record. It ranks as the third-best total in a four-set match in NCAA Division II history. No GAC player has accumulated even 40 digs in a four-set affair.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Football | Etauj Allen, Ouachita | 6 career punt return touchdowns | 2012-14 |
NOTABLE: Allen laps the field in both career punt return yardage and return touchdowns. His 999 yards puts him 431 clear of second place while his six touchdowns doubles the second-best total in league history. Only six other players have even registered multiple punt return touchdowns in a career.
| Sport | School | Record | Date Set |
| Women's Basketball | Southern Arkansas | 26.8 turnovers forced per game in a season | 2019-20 |
NOTABLE: The Muleriders shatter the league’s record for turnovers forced per game as the 26.8 average broke the record by 5.4 turnovers. They also broke the GAC record for steals per game. SAU ranked second in NCAA Division II in the category.
| Sport | Name, School | Record | Date Set |
| Men's Soccer | Colton Hadlock, Southern Nazarene | 156 saves in a season | 2016 |
NOTABLE: Hadlock registered the second-most saves in NCAA Division II in 2016 with 156 in setting the GAC’s single-season mark. In the five-year history of men’s soccer in the GAC, no other goalkeeper has had to make even 100 saves in a year.