The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced its honorees in addition to nearly 11,000 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes and close to 2,000 NAIA Scholar Teams as a part of its annual NAIA National Awards Day on Thursday. The day recognizes the association's highest individual honors and achievements of NAIA student-athletes, administrators and coaches.

To be eligible, student athletes must maintain a 3.5 grade point average, be at least a junior in class standing, and they must have attended two full years at an institution. There were 20 Lights and Skylights to receive this award in 2021-22 season.

Lights
 

Name	Year	Major	Sport
Colter Szymoniak	Senior	Criminal Justice	Football
Spencer Kolody	Senior	Agriculture	Football
Noah Nitz	Junior	Biology/Science Education	Football
Micaiah Hauser	Junior	Business Administration	Men's Basketball
Devin Crawford	Junior	Trades Management	Wrestling
Ethan Roetman	Junior	Diesel Technology	Wrestling

 
Skylights
 

Name	Year	Major	Sport
ShaAnn Danelson	Junior	Business	Women's Basketball/Women's Golf
Sydney Hovde	Senior	Health Promotions	Women's Basketball
Ryley Kehr	Junior	Elementary Education	Women's Basketball
Morgan Mason	Senior	Physical Education	Women's Basketball
Grace Schwenk	Junior	English Education	Women's Cross Country
Allison Tigert	Junior	Pre-Nursing	Women's Cross Country
Megan Vandenacre	Senior	Nursing	Women's Golf
Shania Neubauer	Senior	Nursing	Volleyball
Emily Feller	Junior	Civil Engineering Technology	Volleyball
Hailie George	Junior	Nursing	Volleyball
Alana Graves	Junior	Nursing	Volleyball
Marlee Bender	Junior	Nursing	Volleyball
Abigail Ellison	Junior	Health Promotions	Volleyball
Shay Waldbillig	Junior	Secondary Science Education	Volleyball

               
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