Basketball Players Honored As NAIA Scholar-Athletes

Two Brenau basketball players were honored as 2016-17 Daktronics –NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Scholar-Athletes, the national office announced on Monday.

Dominique Patrick and Autumn Dodson were recognized for their outstanding academic achievements by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status.

Patrick, a senior Mass Communications major, averaged seven points per game for the Golden Tigers, including scoring a career-high 28 points against nationally-ranked Bethel (Tenn.) University earlier this season.

Dodson, a junior majoring in Early Childhood Education, averaged 13 points per game and was ranked third in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) in three-point percentage (38%) this season.

Both students were also honored as 2016-17 SSAC All-Academic performers at the conclusion of their basketball season.