Defensive Most Valuable Player
Michael Connor, Simpson College
Sr., LB, Woodward, Iowa/Woodward-Granger
Connor rose to the first team as a senior after earning honorable mention his junior season. The linebacker led the conference with 91 tackles and 8.5 sacks. Those are averages of 11.4 tackles over the eight-game conference season and just more than one sack per game. His overall season numbers also led the conference with 113 tackles and the previously mentioned 8.5 sacks. Connor is the sixth Storm footballer to earn conference MVP honors and the second in the last six years. QB Taylor Nelson was the Offensive MVP in 2013. Other Simpson winners were Ricky Gales (1989), Brad Jorgenson twice (1996, 1997), Guy Leman (1998) and Mike Donnenwerth (1993).
