Fayette, Mo. - After an outstanding year of athletics in 2019-20, fifteen Central Methodist athletic teams were honored by the NAIA for their work inside the classroom, earning the prestigious honor as an NAIA Scholar Team. The announcement comes as part of the NAIA's National Awards Day, which recognizes the association's highest individual honors and achievements of NAIA student-athletes, administrators and coaches.
The teams that earned NAIA Scholar Team honors for the Eagles include; baseball, men's and women's basketball, competitive cheer and dance, women's cross country, football, men's and women's indoor and track & field, women's soccer, softball, volleyball, and women's wrestling. The Eagles softball team led the way with a 3.692 team grade point average.
In addition, 63 student-athletes were honored as Daktronics NAIA-Scholar Athletes, with women's soccer having the most of any team with 12. These 63 individuals are apart of more than 10,000 student-athletes across the nation along with 2,000 scholar teams. To be eligible for the NAIA Scholar-Athlete award, student-athletes must have been eligible to compete in their respective sports, completed their sophomore year of academic coursework, been enrolled at CMU for at least one full academic year, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.
For a complete list of CMU's NAIA Scholar-Athletes, please see below.
Baseball
Jose Mieses
Julio Canales
Luke Gray
Max McCay
Will DiStefano
Competitive Cheer
Hope Howser
Competitive Dance
Kadee Dempsey
Football
Evan Howard
Forest Dodge Jr.
Jordan Weaver
Kooper Wilson
Makiah Waibel
Malcolm Elmore
Nate Hampton
Men's basketball
Jeff Salmon
Trey Gaedke
Men's cross country
Trevor Roebke
Men's Soccer
Alberto Pangrazzi
Andrea de Simone Senior
Colin Horn
Jensen Lake
Nathan Overbay
Tyler Calvert
Vince Gelei
Men's Track & Field
Akeel Spears
Hayden Hackman
Nehemiah Colyer
Robert Jerrick
Trevor Roebke
Men's Wrestling
Brenden Shelton
Softball
Cassie Armentrout
Hannah Criswell
Jordan Jenkins
Meridith Adam
Mikayla Sturm
Morgan Willis
Sabrina Otzenberger
Women's basketball
Abby Naylor
Hannah Adams
Paige Wells
Taylor Victorine
Tome Voss
Veronica Preciado
Women's cross country
Lisa Sauter
Women's Soccer
Abbie Jefferies
Andrea Villar
Emma Randolph
Jacey Duncan
Judith Sainz
Kate Randolph
Luci Brasil
Mireia Lopez
Miriam McLaren
Sara Cobollo
Sarah Freiermuth
Yasmin Escobar-Moreno
Women's Track & Field
Lisa Sauter
Volleyball
Brooke Hogard
Emily Engemann
Giovanna Kuntze
Grace Stumbaugh
Shannon Peters
Taylor Rumsey
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