KANSAS CITY - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced the Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete list for fall sports, and the Mid-America Christian University men's soccer team had four honorees in 2018.

MACU's Djibril Fofana, Sergio Ribeiro, Oliver May, and Roger Peron all earned Scholar-Athlete status while leading the Evangels to a berth in the NAIA National Championship for the first time.

Fofana boasts a 3.88 GPA in a Business Administration degree program, Ribeiro notched a 3.67 GPA in Accounting and Ethics, May had a 3.76 GPA while studying Business Administration, and Peron studied Marketing and put up a 3.64 GPA To qualify as an NAIA Scholar-Athlete, a student-athlete must be a junior or above academically who appears on the varsity eligibility roster for their team. He must keep a cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, and he must meet a minimum residency requirement at the institution of two years for non-transfer students, and one year for transfer students.