Concordia football lands 11 Scholar-Athlete honorees

By Jacob Knabel on Dec. 14, 2018 in Football

2018 NAIA Scholar-Athletes

SEWARD, Neb. – Eleven student-athletes from the Concordia University football team represented the program on the list of 2018 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes, released on Friday (Dec. 14) by the NAIA. The group of Bulldog honorees includes repeat award winners in seniors Adam Christensen, Caden Jameson and Daniel Langewisch. The 11 Scholar-Athletes are the most for the program since it had 12 in 2015. Concordia’s football program was one of nine with at least 10 Scholar-Athletes.

A first time NAIA Scholar-Athlete, junior linebacker Zac Walter was also a CoSIDA Academic All-District choice. Fellow linebacker Lane Napier picked up NAIA honorable mention All-America accolades on Thursday.

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. A total of 392 football student-athletes across the nation were named 2018 Scholar-Athletes by the NAIA.

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.

2018 Football Scholar-Athletes