The NAIA has announced that 326 softball student-athletes have been named 2011 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Tennessee Wesleyan had two players named as scholar-athletes. Brittnie Hester, a senior, from Sweetwater, Tennessee and Heather Gibson, a junior, also from Sweetwater, Tennessee. 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.