Bulldogs rake in 29 track NAIA Scholar-Athlete awards

By Jacob Knabel on May. 24, 2019 in Track & Field

NAIA Releases: Men | Women

SEWARD, Neb. – A large haul of 29 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete awards streamed in for the Concordia University track and field programs on Friday (May 24), as announced by the NAIA. The 20 women’s Scholar-Athletes ranks was one off the national lead among women’s track and field squads. The complete list of Bulldog Scholar-Athletes (shown at bottom) includes 13 seniors and 16 juniors.

The list features 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in Samantha Liermann (2019 outdoor shot put national champion) and Josiah McAllister. Liermann is the reigning Google Cloud Academic All-American® of the Year in the sport of track and field.

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 341 men’s track and field student-athletes and 516 women’s track and field 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 1,462 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 NAIA Scholar-Athletes