COLUMBIA, Ky. – On Monday, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics recognized its highest honors and achievements of NAIA student-athletes, administrators, coaches, and teams as part of the NAIA's National Awards Day.
Among the list of distinctions were 22 Lindsey Wilson athletic programs that garnered NAIA Scholar-Team honors for the 2024-25 school year.
Since the inception of the award in 2006-07, 261 Blue Raider teams have earned scholar-team accolades. This marks the fourth consecutive season, and sixth overall, in which 20 programs were acclaimed with the award.
To be considered for the NAIA Scholar-Team Award, a team must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average as defined by the institution. The team grade point average includes all student-athletes on the eligibility certificate.
Women's cross-country finished with Lindsey Wilson's highest grade point average of the 2024-25 school year, producing a program-best 3.88. Women's soccer (3.82), women's swimming (3.78), men's swimming (3.62), men's tennis (3.58), men's soccer (3.49), men's basketball (3.39), baseball (3.25), women's wrestling (3.12), and football (3.11) all tallied program-high grade-point averages.
Other NAIA Scholar-Team recipients include women's basketball, men's and women's bowling, cheerleading, men's cross-country, men's and women's golf, softball, women's tennis, women's indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball.
Two additional Blue Raider athletics programs not associated with the NAIA, archery and cycling, also produced grade point averages above a 3.0.
The Lindsey Wilson athletics department, as a whole, ended the 2024-25 school year with a cumulative grade point average of 3.302. The department also saw an all-time high in NAIA Scholar-Athletes (157), Mid-South Conference All-Academic student-athletes (247), and varsity student-athletes with a grade point average of 3.50 of higher (280).
