2024-25 NAIA Spring Sport Scholar-Athlete List
SEWARD, Neb. – Fifty-four Bulldogs from the Concordia University, Nebraska Track & Field programs raked in 2024-25 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete awards, as announced by the NAIA on Wednesday (April 23). Twenty-seven of the honorees are repeat award winners from 2023-24. The Bulldog track program annually ranks among the national leaders for NAIA Scholar-Athletes. The 54 Scholar-Athlete number is right in line with the program’s total of 53 from 2024.
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 one full year at said institution.
Three of the 2024-25 NAIA Scholar-Athletes were named 2023-24 Academic All-District award winners by College Sports Communicators: Carson Fehlhafer, Mayson Ostermeyer and Adrianna Rodencal. Ostermeyer was also tabbed an Academic All-American by CSC.
Concordia University, Nebraska ranks as the NAIA’s all-time leader in number of Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes with 2,526 entering the 2024-25 academic year. The school record for number of Scholar-Athletes in one academic year is 226 achieved in 2019-20. Concordia has been a regular national leader for both Scholar-Athletes and Scholar-Teams.
2024-25 Concordia Track & Field Scholar-Athletes
Men
· Nathan Baldwin (Sutton, Neb.)
· Jack Ellis (Bend, Ore.)
· Carson Fehlhafer (Utica, Neb.)
· Thomas Gorline (St. Louis, Mo.)
· Sven Gredelj (Zagreb, Croatia)
· Emry Gutz (Salisbury, Mo.)
· Luke Hammang (Arlington, Neb.)
· Charles Hayden (Elkhorn, Neb.)
· Hayden Kluthe (Ord, Neb.)
· Brooks Kreisel (Blue Springs, Mo.)
· Trevor Kuncl (Mullen, Neb.)
· Aidan Limback (West Des Moines, Iowa)
· Jackson Lindburg (Stromsburg, Neb.)
· Teagan Meyer (Alta, Iowa)
· Hudson Opp (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Mayson Ostermeyer (Crofton, Neb.)
· Nathan Pennekamp (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Ryan Pheak (Osceola, Neb.)
· Noah Ramirez (Anaheim, Calif.)
· Thad Rathjen (Osceola, Neb.)
· Ethan Theilen (Cantrall, Ill.)
· Ransom Watts (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Women
· Rachel Ada (DeSoto, Kan.)
· Caitlyn Adams (Beaver Crossing, Neb.)
· Ava Bartels (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Elena Batenhorst (Columbus, Neb.)
· Claire Beikmann (Palmer, Kan.)
· Hannah Beintema (Bettendorf, Iowa)
· Keegan Beisel (Seward, Neb.)
· Erin Boggs (Bertrand, Neb.)
· Greta Corneliusen (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
· Alyssa Ferguson (Harvard, Neb.)
· Molly Frenzen (Columbus, Neb.)
· Abby Gerber (Columbus, Neb.)
· Kelsie Heins (Longmont, Colo.)
· Marissa Heins (Concordia, Mo.)
· Ellie Jander (St. Louis, Mo.)
· Rhaya Kaschinske (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Kayla Kirchner (Ogallala, Neb.)
· Emma Kucera (Gibbon, Neb.)
· Emily Loseke (Leigh, Neb.)
· Alyssa Marotz (Norfolk, Neb.)
· Christina Martinson (Wausa, Neb.)
· Ardin Mignea (Las Vegas, Nev.)
· Hayley Miles (North Platte, Neb.)
· Katelyn Nix (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Addison Reimer (Lisbon, Wis.)
· Adrianna Rodencal (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Aliyah Sinn (Hanover, Kan.)
· Amanda Steinke (Milwaukee, Wis.)
· Gretchen Stottlemyre (Olympia, Wash.)
· Kayla Svoboda (Wisner, Neb.)
· Trinity Tuls (Columbus, Neb.)
· Landrey Walter (Fort Morgan, Colo.)