Spring 2023 NAIA Scholar-Athletes complete 2022-23 national academic honors

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With the calendar shifted to June and all championships either complete or still underway, the NAIA released all Daktronics Scholar-Athletes as 32 spring student-athletes at Clarke University met the NAIA's criteria to be selected.

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 Pride's spring sport scholar-athletes are:

Baseball

George Chapa

Masayuki Maruhashi

Jose Perez

Carson Possehl

Christian Prull

Matthew Rossi

Andrew Swartz

Bubba Thompson

Tyson Tucker

Paul Von Zboray

Softball

Daija Bates

Mercy DeRyke

Lily King

Elizabeth Leverton

Men's Golf

Mitchel Coffey

Jesse Frye

Jared Martinson

Carter Ruegsegger

Women's Golf

Ellie Bennett

Halle Boldt

Camdyn Penick 

Women's Lacrosse

Sarah Kile

Haley Kline

Emily Moran

Men's Track and Field

Emmett Schwartzhoff

Kole Haverly

Timothy Miller 

Women's Track and Field

Rory Bickler

Emma Grant

Men's Volleyball

Zachary Barr

Kainoa Gerard

Tye Ojala

These 32 student-athletes join the 58 that earned Scholar-Athlete honors in the fall and winter combined to push Clarke's running total, now complete for the full 2022-23 season, to 90 total Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes.