Dec. 4, 2007

Kansas City, Mo. - The 2007 Daktronics-NAIA Men's Soccer Scholar-Athletes have been announced with over 200 student-athletes receiving the honor. Over 90 schools are represented on this prestigious list, with Shorter College having two athletes: Brian Arnold and Sam Norman.

In order to be a recipient of the NAIA-Daktronics Scholar-Athlete award, one must fulfill these requirements: the recipient must be a junior or above in academic standing; has been in attendance at the nominating institution a minimum of one full year of attendance; has a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.50 (on a 4.0 scale) at the time of nomination at the nominating institution; has been certified as eligible.

These student-athletes were officially submitted from individual schools to the NAIA-MSCA Scholar-Athlete Coordinator.

Arnold received this recognition last year, while this is Norman's first Scholar-Athlete award. Both are graduating seniors on this year's team.