The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that 124 Division I Women's Basketball student-athletes have been named 2013 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

 Among those 124 were Courtney Ward (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Jasmine Tate (Fayetteville, N.C.) of Peru State College.  This is Ward's second time being honored as a Scholar-Athlete.

In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach, 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 to qualify for this honor.

Ward, a senior criminal justice-counseling major, was one of the key leaders on the Bobcat basketball team.  In addition to earning two Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) Player of the Week honors, Ward was selected to the HAAC's All-Conference First Team. 

Tate, a junior graphics design major, also played a key role in the Bobcat's success this season.