2024-25 NAIA Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete List
SEWARD, Neb. – One of the national leaders, Concordia University, Nebraska Women’s Basketball placed 16 student-athletes on the 2024-25 list of Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes released on Wednesday (Feb. 19). Repeat Scholar-Athlete award winners include Megan Belt, Kendal Brigham, Abby Heemstra, Kiera Moes, Kristin Vieselmeyer and Gabrielle Wagner. The program’s complete list of NAIA Scholar-Athletes is included below.
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.
In addition to garnering multiple Scholar-Athlete awards in their careers, Brigham, Heemstra and Vieselmeyer were named 2023-24 Academic All-District honorees by College Sports Communicators. The organization will announce 2024-25 all-district awards on March 25.
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.
2024-25 Concordia Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athletes
· Megan Belt (Papillion, Neb.)
· Kendal Brigham (Wahoo, Neb.)
· Bree Bunting (Kersey, Colo.)
· Faith Engle (Geneva, Neb.)
· Jordan Ernstmeyer (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Abby Heemstra (Rock Valley, Iowa)
· Elizabeth Hoffman (Omaha, Neb.)
· Juliana Jones (Omaha, Neb.)
· Addison Klahn (Omaha, Neb.)
· Kaitlin Kontor (Milford, Neb.)
· Sammy Leu (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Tanya Miller (Seward, Neb.)
· Kiera Moes (Osmond, Neb.)
· Kynlee Strauser (Gothenburg, Neb.)
· Kristin Vieselmeyer (Holyoke, Colo.)
· Gabrielle Wagner (Sioux City, Iowa)