Twelve Spring Athletes Named NAIA Scholar-Athletes

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has released the 2024 Fall Sport Daktronics Scholar-Athletes naming twelve Racers to the list.

To qualify as a Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete, students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, appear on the eligibility certificate for their sport, and have attended their institution for at least one full year. This year, the list features an impressive number of student-athletes who have met these rigorous standards.

Softball led all spring sports naming six to the list of Scholar-Athletes with four picking up the honor for a third time, a feat accomplished just once prior to 2025, one earning her second and one named for the first time. Baseball picked up three honors with two first-timers and one first-timer. Women's golf landed two with one earning her third award, just the second player in program history to accomplish the feat, and one winning her first honor. Men's Golf landed one on the list, his second honor, making him just the fifth men's golfer to earn the honor in program history.

Softball

Anna Ankney (3rd), Senior, Sports Marketing & Management major with an Emphasis on Accounting from Ney, Ohio

Dani Keighley (3rd), Senior, Sports Marketing & Management major from Chesterfield, Michigan

Sydney Shaffer (3rd), Senior, Healthcare Administration major from Youngstown, Ohio

Tess Denning (3rd), Senior, Sports Marketing & Mananement major with Associate Degree Digital Multimedia Design from Dalton, Ohio

Sidney Unger (2nd), Senior, Business Administration major from Tipp City, Ohio

Holly Alvoid (1st), Senior, Business major from North Lewisburg, Ohio

Baseball

Seth Freeman (2nd), Senior, Business Administration major from Bedford Heights, Ohio

Sinjon Bobolia (2nd), Junior, Accounting major with a CPA Track from San Diego, California

Josh Ledgard (1st), Junior, Business major from Adalaide, South Australia

Women's Golf

Kenadie Daeger (3rd), Senior, Sports Marketing & Management major from Payne, Ohio

Kayla Watkins (1st), Sophomore, Business Administration major from Bellefontaine, Ohio

Men's Golf

Carter Schimmoeller (2nd), Junior, Business Administration major from Ottawa, Ohio