(Peru, Neb.) – Bobcat football player Dan Boshart (Wood River) and baseball player Chaz Dunn (Falls City) were recently named by Peru State athletic director Wayne Albury as the July Bobcat Athletes of the Month. They were selected by Albury for the honor based on their recent recognitions by the Heart of America Athletic Conference (Heart).
Both Dunn and Boshart were top student-athlete honorees at the recent Heart Summit. Heart Commissioner recognized Dunn as the conference’s A.O. Duer Male Award winner while Boshart was named as the Heart’s Dr. LeRoy Walker Champions of Character honoree.
The A.O. Duer award is given to one male and one female in the NAIA conferences who have excelled in scholarship, character, and citizenship. The late A.O. Duer was the NAIA’s former executive secretary for 26 years. In order to be considered, a nominee had to have at least a grade point average of above 3.75 on a 4.00 scale.
Dunn, a senior marketing major with a journalism minor, currently has a 3.869 grade point average through eight semesters. He is a two-time Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete, a two-time Heart Scholar-Athletes, and has been on the Dean’s List for six semesters. A member of the baseball team for four years, Dunn was a full-time starter at third base last year.
Both Dunn and Boshart are members of the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC). Boshart will succeed Dunn as the SAAC president – a position Dunn held for three years.
In announcing his July selections, Albury noted “Earning the conference honors that Chaz and Dan did at the Heart Summit truly merits recognition as Peru State’s athletes of the month.”
