Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 Six Valley City State University basketball players have been named Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes, the NAIA national office announced Monday.<\/p>\n
VCSU women\u2019s basketball players\u00a0Georgia Williams,\u00a0Sara Schwanke,\u00a0Lexi Lennon\u00a0and\u00a0Paige Meyer\u00a0all earned the award. On the men\u2019s side,\u00a0Alex Quist\u00a0and\u00a0Rashad Satahoo\u00a0earned the NAIA Scholar-Athlete honor.<\/p>\n
Georgia Williams\u00a0– Senior \u2013 Townsville, Australia \u2013 Health Sciences
\nSara Schwanke\u00a0– Senior \u2013 Maddock, N.D. \u2013 Elementary Education
\nPaige Meyer\u00a0– Junior \u2013 Fairmount, N.D. \u2013 Elementary Education
\nLexi Lennon\u00a0– Junior \u2013 West Fargo, N.D. \u2013 Business Administration
\nAlex Quist\u00a0– Junior \u2013 Bismarck, N.D. \u2013 Physical Education
\nRashad Satahoo\u00a0– Junior \u2013 North Lauderdale, Fla. \u2013 Business Administration<\/p>\n
In order to be nominated for the award, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and must have achieved junior academic status. Transfers must be at the institution for a full year before they can be nominated.<\/p>\n
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Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 Six Valley City State University basketball players have been named Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes, the NAIA national office announced Monday. VCSU women\u2019s basketball players\u00a0Georgia Williams,\u00a0Sara Schwanke,\u00a0Lexi Lennon\u00a0and\u00a0Paige Meyer\u00a0all earned the award. On the men\u2019s side,\u00a0Alex Quist\u00a0and\u00a0Rashad Satahoo\u00a0earned the NAIA Scholar-Athlete honor. Georgia Williams\u00a0– Senior \u2013 Townsville, Australia \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117834,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117828\/revisions\/117834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}