One of the great aspects of playing NAIA athletics, is that you will see a lot of student-athletes who participate in many extra-curricular activities. For a guy like Keegan Savary, a Senior Accounting Major from Sergeant Bluff, IA,  attending Mount Marty University has given him the chance to be part of the Catholic Leadership group on campus. One of the many things they do is to help provide meals to the less fortunate during the Holiday seasons.  The group also picks up trash alongside the highways in Yankton, South Dakota. Being apart of these groups allows NAIA student-athletes to create relationships with people outside of their own sports teams. These groups do a lot of good within their own communities,

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One of the great things about the NAIA level are the amount of success stories from players who didn't know what the NAIA was before being recruited by a NAIA program. This was the case for Isiah Saenz from Bethany College. Who admitted to us that he had no clue what the NAIA, nor the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) was before being recruited by Bethany (KS) College. Isiah is a 5'9 Senior from San Antoinio, Texas. He played at San Anthony Catholic High School, which was a small private high school. He wasn't a big time recruit, so he was appreciative of the relationship he had built up with Coach Dan O'Dowd during the recruiting process. Coming from a small, private