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Fighting Bees named as NAIA Scholar-Athletes

Fighting Bees named as NAIA Scholar-Athletes

NAIA Fall Scholar-Athletes Release

NAIA Winter Scholar-Athletes Release

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2025 Daktroncis NAIA Scholar-Athletes awards earlier today. Of the winter student-athletes at St. Ambrose, 66 (3 men's basketball, 4 women's basketball, 6 competitive cheer, 11 competitive dance, 25 men's swimming and diving, 12 women's swimming and diving, and 5 men's wrestling) were named NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Men's Basketball

Atem Agot

Carson Rueff

Zane Witt

Women's Basketball

Abby Wolter

Caitlyn Thole

Erica Bostwick

Olivia Harter

Competitive Cheer

Alyssa Oczko

Haley Scholbrock

Rachel Ruplinger

Regan Tucker

Ryan Russo

Sydnee Horstman

Competitive Dance

Addie Hendrick

Emma Schoonover

Evelyn Shaw

Josie Kaffenberger

Karli Langley

Karsyn Kuffler

Leah Zeimet

Maddy Barnes

Sara Gundacker

Shea Denahy

Sydnie Offermann

Men's Swimming and Diving

Abe Alwan

Ben Patterson

Benny Zarhin

Blake Tyler

Brett Jones

Carter Gaber

Carter Prull

David Schneider

Egoitz Munoz

Gonzalo Saenz

Jonas Friess

Juan Gomez

Khalil Ruiz

Lucas Ascua

Luke Sproule

Marat Usov

Michael Taylor

Mikhi Hassim

Nathan Anderson

Panagiotis Pappous

Ryan Safta

Sebastian Pereira

Thomas Noller

Vincent Meo

Walter De Jongh

Women's Swimming and Diving

Alexis Hill

Amber Warak

Annaliese Bowser

Emily Henson

Grace Bobeldyk

Irene Artabe

Kate Henson

Leyre Antonanzas

Madeline Piper

Riley Loeffler

Rylie Steinkamp

Sarah Feller

Men's Wrestling

Dylan Meiners

Jacob Alexander

Josh Zeman

Mick Chagnon

Tyler Casey

The Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete programs recognize excellence in the classroom by NAIA-member student-athletes who are sophomores or above in academic standing with a 3.5 residential cumulative GPA. Students must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended one full year as a non-transfer or one full year as a transfer. The awards are given annually to outstanding student-athletes in the various sports in which the program is active and their respective teams are eligible for NAIA postseason competition.


The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2024 Daktroncis NAIA Scholar-Athletes awards earlier today. Of the fall student-athletes at St. Ambrose, 74 (6 men's cross country, 6 women's cross country, 14 football, 22 men's soccer, 20 women's soccer, and 6 women's volleyball) were named NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athletes

Nathan Boleyn

Kale Cartee

Ian Eller

Bryan Flengte

Noah Maske

Chris Miserendino

Women's Cross Country Scholar-Athletes

Jayne Eilderts

Allison Hein

Kaitlyn Knoche

Michaela Pieroni

Adeline Smith

Carlie Woolm

Football Scholar-Athletes

Jake Ackman

Aidan Flynn

Pat Galeher

Andrew Grau

Joe Jummati

Joe Namio

Aidan Pieper

Brady Piper

Joe Reinhart

Broc Schmidt

Jake Strater

Caleb Swanson

Luke Vera

Kyle Yehling

Men's Soccer Scholar-Athletes

Parker Beck

Matthew Booten

Lucas Pizani

Matthew Daly

Eli Elliott

Sam Flello

Thomas Gaither

Owen Gannaway

Aden Grudzinski

Ethan Holke

Owen Hull

Keaton Johnson

Charlie Leinart

Nevan Libert

Hunter Lillie

Zach Milos

Harry North

Dylan Ollendieck

Ricardo Ronconi

David Sanchez-Teba

Carlos Simoni

Carson Wagner

Women's Soccer Scholar-Athletes

Lauren Bendall

Genevieve Bowyer

Kaitlyn Brunson

Malu Garuba Coelho

Isabella Crawford

Taylor DeSplinter

Daniya El-Zein

Pia Feldes

Mia Hefner

Jenna Horst

Maggie Konczak

Aubree Langan

Lauren Malone

Charli McGill

Abby Messina

Nura Montouto Revilla

Paige Sprout

Marin Tadrus

Anna Verry

Kendall Wendt

Women's Volleyball Scholar-Athletes

Grace Beitzel

Kaleigh Bergschneider

Felicity Emmerich

Mackenzie Grafton

C.J. Starke

Audrey Witte

The Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete programs recognize excellence in the classroom by NAIA-member student-athletes who are sophomores or above in academic standing with a 3.5 residential cumulative GPA. Students must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended one full year as a non-transfer or one full year as a transfer. The awards are given annually to outstanding student-athletes in the various sports in which the program is active and their respective teams are eligible for NAIA postseason competition.