Joel Kaldahl Named Scholar-Athlete in Tennis at Concordia University, Nebraska

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Joel Kaldahl tennis scholar athlete at Concordia Nebraska

SEWARD, NE (05/20/2013)(readMedia)-- Joel Kaldahl, a junior at Concordia University, Nebraska from Spencer, Iowa, was one of four Concordia tennis student-athletes named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes, as announced by the NAIA on Friday. Kaldahl is a business major.

After adding the 38 combined Scholar-Athletes in the fall and winter sports, Concordia now has 42 Scholar-Athletes for the 2012-13 athletic season. Honorees for baseball, softball, track and field and women's golf have yet to be announced.

In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor. Nationally, 119 women and 94 men were honored as Scholar-Athletes in the sport of tennis.

Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully accredited, coeducational university located in Seward, Neb. that currently serves over 2,100 students. Concordia offers more than 50 professional and liberal arts programs in an excellent academic and Christ-centered community that equips men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and world. For more information, visit cune.edu.