Matz named a baseball scholar athlete

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has named Adam Matz of Lincolnville a 2014 Daktronics-NAIA scholar athlete.

Matz is one of 15 scholar athletes from the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference who received the honor. He will be a senior at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. He has been a pitcher for the baseball team for all of his three years at KWU.

Student athletes are nominated by their head coach, must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5, and have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for the honor.