2018-19 Concordia NAIA Scholar-Athletes
SEWARD, Neb. – Forty-three Concordia University student-athletes earned Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete recognition during the fall of 2018. That figure is a 10 number improvement as compared to a year ago for the Bulldog athletic department. The complete list of Scholar-Athletes can be viewed via the link above.
In order to be nominated by an institution’s head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status.
Concordia University ranks as the NAIA’s all-time leader in number of Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes with 1,403 and counting. The Bulldogs have been a regular national leader for both scholar-athletes and scholar-teams and are coming off a 2017-18 academic year that resulted in 77 more scholar-athletes and 20 scholar-teams (third most in the nation). Also in 2017-18, seven Bulldog student-athletes garnered both CoSIDA Academic All-District and CoSIDA Academic All-America accolades. Women’s soccer star Maria Deeter was recently named a 2018 CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree.