SEWARD, Neb. – In representation of the GPAC tournament runner up Concordia University women’s tennis team, junior Lindee Schultz picked up 2019 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, as announced by the NAIA on Saturday (May 18). Schultz is a first time Scholar-Athlete. The Hastings, Neb., native is a biology major on a pre-physical therapy track.
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 women’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.