The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) is proud to announce that 528 student-athletes have earned NAIA Daktronics Scholar-Athlete honors for 2010-2011.

NAIA Daktronics Scholar-Athletes must be juniors or seniors, total a 3.50 or higher Grade Point Average, and be a member of a varsity team.

Nebraska Wesleyan University led the conference with 77 scholar-athletes for the academic year.Concordia University totaled 66 honorees, with Morningside posting 56 scholar-athletes.

The GPAC has over 4,000 student athletes in 19 sanctioned conference sports. Scholar- Athletes in swimming and diving (Morningside) were also added to the scholar-athlete totals for the league.