30 Fall Sport Student-Athletes Earn Daktronic NAIA Scholar-Athlete Honors

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The NAIA released the 2024 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes for fall sports last week. This honor recognizes student-athletes in each of the fall sports who have excelled academically including men's cross country, men's soccer, women's cross country, women's soccer, and women's volleyball. Tennessee Wesleyan had 30 student-athletes across the five sports earn the honor.

To be nominated, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have been at the institution for one full academic year.

The student-athletes to be named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes were:

Men's Cross Country
Adrian Nelka-Hernandez
Stephen Kerley
Jack Headrick
Caleb Greene
Conner Craig
Randy Barnes
Major Frerichs

Men's Soccer
Julien Withrow
Sifiso Ngwenya
Gabriel Katz
Zach Blair
Logan Haricombe

Women's Cross Country
Reagan Goforth
Molly Woodby

Women's Soccer
Karanna Bailey
Alyssa Bridges
Jordan Smith
Lauryn Smith
Emma Shell
Alayna Richardson
Alexandra Machado
Samantha Holsenbeck
Madisen Hodges
Jenna Gibson
Natascha Frei
Annabel Cuthbert
Lucia Bonfante

Volleyball
Morae Owens
Megan Thompson
Olivia Bolin