(Wednesday, November 26; Sioux Center, Iowa) The Dordt University football team had 32 players earn Scholar Athlete honors for the 2025 season announced by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

The national office announced the complete list of Scholar Athletes for the fall season and Dordt led all institutions with 132 total honorees. Reinhardt (Ga.) was a distant second (86), followed by Marian (Ind.) with 85.

The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) led all conferences with 693 scholar athletes for the fall.

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, must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended one full year at said institution.

Defenders who met qualifying standard for fourth time (1)
Daniel Dickerson

Defenders who earned the honor for a third time (5)
Brendan Pieper
Connor Dodd
Jeremiah Peterson
Kolson Kruse
Preston McCoy
 
Defenders who earned the honor for a second time (13)
Devin Endel
Elijah Dougherty
Jacob Van Donge
Jamin Stuhr
Jack Fancher
Michael Vander Woude
Nick Giesen
Noah Strickfaden
Thomas Walder
Thomas McCullough
Ty Clemens
Zach Quiring
Isaac Kacmarynski
 
Defenders who earned the honor for the first time (13)
Ben Lantz
Brody Peissig
Cole Johnson
Coleson Quiring
Drake Gustafson
Ethan Martin
Ethan Van Ginkel
Grady Noll
Jacob Singleton
Keenan Valverde
Kyler Bork
Peyton Himmerick
Robert Tweed