Men’s Soccer Names Eight as Daktronics Scholar Athletes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2023 Daktronics NAIA Men’s Soccer Scholar-Athletes on Friday. 

The 2023 list features 1032 student-athletes, spread across 156 institutions, who achieved at least a 3.5 cumulative grade point average (GPA) at their institution. 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.

For the Cougars, eight were named scholar athletes:

• Alec Murphy
• Guy Baskerville
• James McFarlane
• Luke Hynes
• Luke Sowerby
• Nedim Sarajlija
• Paul Morpurgo
• Steven Marion