Men's tennis ties for NAIA Scholar-Athlete national lead

By Jacob Knabel on May. 18, 2019 in Men's Tennis

NAIA Release

SEWARD, Neb. – A group of four Bulldogs represented the Concordia University men’s tennis team with 2019 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete recognition, as announced by the NAIA on Saturday (May 18). The Concordia honorees included senior Conner Works and juniors Alex Kaldahl, Josh Miller and Luke Zoller. Two days earlier, Zoller was also awarded as a Google Cloud Academic All-District selection by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The four Scholar-Athletes tied for the most among all men’s tennis programs nationally.

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, must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended two full years as a non-transfer or one full year as a transfer. A total of 155 men's tennis student-athletes across the nation were named 2019 Scholar-Athletes by the NAIA.

Concordia University ranks as the NAIA’s all-time leader in number of Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes with 1,433 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.

2019 NAIA Scholar-Athletes

Alex Kaldahl, Jr. | Spencer, Iowa | Secondary Education/English
Josh Miller, Jr. | Omaha, Neb. | Accounting
Conner Works, Sr. | Lincoln, Neb. | History
Luke Zoller, Sr. | Lenexa, Kan. | Physics (major)/Mathematics (minor)