KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Goshen College Athletics Department strives to develop student-athletes athletically, academically, and as individuals of character in the community.  This spring, 22 more Maple Leaf student-athletes celebrated another milestone in those efforts by being selected as Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

With spring national championships recently wrapping up at multiple sites throughout the country, the academic awards rolled in.  In the previous four years alone, the Goshen College Athletic Department has been able to boast an impressive 182 scholar-athletes.

This year's total of 48 is just two short of the program record (50), set in both 2008-09 and 2009-10.  Nominated by each institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and have achieved junior academic status to qualify.

For a complete list of 2011-12 Goshen Scholar-Athletes, click here.

2012 Spring Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes

Women's Tennis
Marcelle Al-Zoughbi (South Bend, Ind.)
Summer Hasan (Newton, Kans.)
Lindsay Goodman (Nappanee, Ind.)
Lauren Stoltzfus (Lancaster, Pa.)
Men's Tennis
Jackson Beck (Archbold, Ohio)
Baseball
Ben Diedring (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
Luke Hucker (LaCrosse, Ind.)
Spencer Oversen (Goshen, Ind.)
David Stoesz (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Softball
Maria Koshmider (Dundee, Ohio)
Jana Beitler (Berne, Ind.)
Men's Track and Field
Sam Jones (Timber Lake, S.D.)
Jake GunderKline (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
Josh Delp (Sellersville, Pa.)
Women's Track and Field
Alita Yoder (Elkhart, Ind.)
Melissa Zehr (Princeton, Ind.)
Karla Folker (Goshen, Ind.)
Erin Helmuth (Elkhart, Ind.)
Summer Hasan (Newton, Kans.)
Ali Fretz (Lakewood, Colo.)
Alli Beitler (Berne, Ind.)
Lydia Alderfer (Harleysville, Pa.)