Dance lands three Bulldogs on Scholar-Athlete list

By Jacob Knabel on Mar. 11, 2019 in Dance

2019 NAIA Dance Scholar-Athletes

SEWARD, Neb. – The Concordia University dance team landed a trio of student-athletes on the 2019 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes honor roll, as announced by the NAIA on Friday (March 8). All three honorees are seniors: Taeva Hoppe, Neleigh Lehr and Sarah Rogge.

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 104 competitive cheer 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 1,429 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 Concordia Dance Scholar-Athletes