Men's Track Takes Nine Scholar-Athlete Nods

2018 Daktronics NAIA Men's Track and Field Scholar-Athletes | TU Honors Page

KANSAS CITY – The Taylor University men's track and field program earned seven Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors recently, as announced by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

In order to be named an NAIA Scholar-Athlete, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 3.50 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved junior academic status at their current institution.

Joe Beamish, Micah Bragg, Ben Byrd, Stephen Cho, Collen Cramer, Joey Ferguson, Heelak Lee, Landry Long and Jonathan Taylor were among the 307 men's track and field student-athletes from around the nation to be named as 2018 NAIA Scholar-Athletes and were nine of the 33 student-athletes from the Crossroads League to be recognized.

The Trojans posted the highest number of Scholar-Athletes in the Crossroads League on the heels of scoring top-21 finishes at the NAIA Indoor and Outdoor National Championships.