2023 NAIA Men’s Golf Scholar-Athletes
SEWARD, Neb. – A half dozen academic standouts from Concordia University Men’s Golf garnered 2023 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete recognition, as announced by the NAIA on Monday (May 15). The list of Bulldog honorees includes repeat award winners in Drew D’Ercole, Jacob Woodmancy and Ivan Yabut. The first time Scholar-Athletes from Head Coach Brett Muller’s program are Gavin Buttshaw, Jake Hagerbaumer and Justin Webert.
The 2022-23 list of men’s golf honorees features 375 total student-athletes. 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.
D’Ercole and Yabut also recently were named GPAC All-Conference honorees. Areas of study for Concordia’s Scholar-Athletes are Accounting and Business Administration for Buttshaw, Recreation and Sport Studies and Business Administration for D’Ercole, Business Administration for Hagerbaumer, Accounting for Webert, Mathematics for Woodmancy and Psychology for Yabut.
Concordia University ranks as the NAIA’s all-time leader in number of Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes with 2,121 entering the 2022-23 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.
2023 Men’s Golf NAIA Scholar-Athletes
· Gavin Buttshaw (Aurora, Colo.)
· Drew D’Ercole (Papillion, Neb.)
· Jake Hagerbaumer (Hooper, Neb.)
· Justin Webert (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Jacob Woodmancy (Grant, Neb.)
· Ivan Yabut (Omaha, Neb.)