2024 NAIA Track & Field Scholar-Athletes: Men | Women
SEWARD, Neb. – A combined 53 student-athletes from the Concordia University Track & Field programs earned recognition on Tuesday (May 21) as 2024 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes. With 39 award winners, the Concordia women’s program led all NAIA track and field teams nationally. Meanwhile, the men’s squad raked in 14 Scholar-Athlete awards.
The 2023-24 list of track & field honorees features 873 men’s and 1,203 women’s 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.
The list of 2024 NAIA Scholar-Athletes includes past College Sports Communicators Academic All-Americans in Kylahn Freiberg, Rylee Haecker, Josie Puelz, Calvin Rohde and Zach Zohner. Among the honorees are several individuals who were also recognized as NAIA Scholar-Athletes for cross country.
Winner of the 2023-24 GPAC All-Sports Championship Trophy, Concordia University ranks as the NAIA’s all-time leader in number of Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes with 2,322 entering the 2023-24 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 Track & Field NAIA Scholar-Athletes
MEN
· Jack Ellis (Bend, Ore.)
· Carson Fehlhafer (Utica, Neb.)
· Marc Freiberg (Seward, Neb.)
· Thomas Gorline (St. Louis, Mo.)
· Charles Hayden (Elkhorn, Neb.)
· Trevor Kuncl (Mullen, Neb.)
· Teagan Meyer (Alta, Iowa)
· Mayson Ostermeyer (Crofton, Neb.)
· Nathan Pennekamp (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Joel Rathe (Sterling, Neb.)
· Calvin Rohde (Reed City, Mich.)
· Darien Semedo (Sacramento, Calif.)
· Micah Willweber (Kailua, Hawaii)
· Zach Zohner (Battle Creek, Neb.)
WOMEN
· Rachel Ada (DeSoto, Kan.)
· Elena Batenhorst (Columbus, Neb.)
· Hannah Beintema (Bettendorf, Iowa)
· Keegan Beisel (Seward, Neb.)
· Greta Corneliusen (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
· Amira Cummings (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
· Mickey Curl (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
· Lauren Dawson (Cedar Falls, Iowa)
· Jenna Esch (Hastings, Neb.)
· Kylahn Freiberg (Nampa, Idaho)
· Abigail Gerber (Columbus, Neb.)
· Peyton Gissler (Malcolm, Neb.)
· Rylee Haecker (Davenport, Neb.)
· Ellie Jander (St. Louis, Mo.)
· Rhaya Kaschinske (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Kayla Kirchner (Ogallala, Neb.)
· Skylar Kreifels (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Emily Loseke (Leigh, Neb.)
· Alyssa Marotz (Norfolk, Neb.)
· Anna McCoy (Grand Island, Neb.)
· Julie McIntyre (Chicago, Ill.)
· Hayley Miles (North Platte, Neb.)
· Katelyn Nix (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Grace Pennekamp (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
· Kamryn Pokorney (Shelby, Neb.)
· Josie Puelz (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Grace Reimer (Hartland, Wis.)
· Kellie Rhodes (Mullinville, Kan.)
· Amy Richert (Gresham, Neb.)
· Adrianna Rodencal (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Taberah Schmidt (Damascus, Ore.)
· Kimberly Schropfer (Ohiowa, Neb.)
· Amanda Steinke (Milwaukee, Wis.)
· Gretchen Stottlemyre (Olympia, Wash.)
· Kayla Svoboda (Wisner, Neb.)
· Trinity Tuls (Columbus, Neb.)
· Jaiden Tweton (Ashland, Neb.)
· Landrey Walter (Fort Morgan, Colo.)
· Lainey Werts (St. Edward, Neb.)