CLEVELAND - The recognition continues to flow in for Bradley Basketball senior guard Dodie Dunson (Bloomington, Ill./Bloomington H.S.), who today was named one of 11 members of the Division I-AAA Athletic Director's Association Scholar-Athlete Team.
Dunson's award marks the second consecutive year the Bradley men's basketball program has been represented on the I-AAA ADA Scholar-Athlete Team and he seventh time a Bradley men's or women's basketball player has been honored in the 10-year history of the award.
The I-AAA Athletic Director's Association is made up of administrators from the NCAA Division I institutions that do not sponsor football programs and basketball players from all Division I-AAA ADA member institutions are eligible for the Scholar-Athlete Team. Each of the nominees was required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate study and have been a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletics credentials. He must have reached junior athletics and academic standing at the nominated institution (true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletics transfers are not eligible) and have completed at least three academic semesters/five quarters at the nominated institution. Nominated student-athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games listed on the nomination form.
Boasting a 3.67 grade point average in social work during his three years at Bradley, Dunson completed his Braves career by averaging 10.2 points per game. A team captain in each of his three years with the Braves, this spring Dunson also has been named a Lowe's Senior CLASS Award All-American, a finalist for the NCAS Courageous Student-Athlete Award and to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete first team.
Previous honorees on the I-AAA Athletic Director's Association Scholar-Athlete Team include men's basketball player Sam Maniscalco in 2010, as well as women's basketball players Sara Bailey (2002), Genny Mueller (2004, 2005) and Jenny Van Kirk (2009, 2010).
