2024 Men’s Soccer NAIA Scholar-Athletes
SEWARD, Neb. – Nine Bulldogs from the Concordia University Men’s Soccer program were honored on Nov. 25 for their work in the classroom. The list of 2024 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes includes repeat Bulldog award winners in Josh Bergt, Nolan Fuelberth, Slade Leicht, Manuel Rodriguez and Adrian Wambua. First time honorees are Ferdinand Hagen, Youssef Heggy, Kai Olbrich and Michael Wyvill.
The 2024 list of men’s soccer honorees nationally includes 1,043 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.
Head Coach Jason Weides’ 2024 squad excelled on the field while finishing with a 8-3-9 overall record. The Bulldogs hosted the GPAC tournament title game for the first time in program history. In addition to earning Scholar-Athlete awards, Fuelberth, Hagen, Heggy and Wyvill were each named Academic All-District award winners by College Sports Communicators.
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 Concordia Men’s Soccer Scholar-Athletes
· Josh Bergt (Fairmont, Minn.)
· Nolan Fuelberth (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Ferdinand Hagen (Berlin, Germany)
· Youssef Heggy (Dusseldorf, Germany)
· Slade Leicht (Sachse, Texas)
· Kai Olbrich (Bennington, Neb.)
· Manuel Rodriguez (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
· Adrian Wambua (Nairobi, Kenya)
· Michael Wyvill (Lincoln, Neb.)