Student-athletes must be nominated by their head coach and have achieved junior academic status, maintaining a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.  The NAIA recognized 170 student-athletes from across the country.

Coleman, a native a Tomball, Texas, qualified with a 3.79 GPA.  He is a junior majoring in chemistry and plans to attend graduate school to pursue a degree in exercise physiology.