The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in fall sports, which include men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, field hockey, football, women's volleyball, men's water polo and women's badminton (emerging sport).

In addition to the fall-sport honorees, the NCAA also awards 116 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes participating in winter and spring sports in which the NCAA conducts championships (or sponsors as an emerging sport), for a total of 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.

Qualifiers for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (4.000 scale) or its equivalent and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated. The student-athlete must have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete also must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.

Selections are made three times each academic year. The application must be submitted during the appropriate seasonal category for the sport to the appropriate regional selection committee chair. Candidates are screened by seven regional selection committees, and the award recipients are selected by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.

Women's sports recipients

Morgan Anderson, Trinity (Texas), business administration, volleyball; Jill Arganbright, Northern Iowa, biology, volleyball; Julia Bachman; Notre Dame (Maryland), biology, soccer; Rebecca Brakeley, Middlebury, neuroscience, field hockey; Marisa Clapp, Springfield, sport management, cross country; Prue Cormie, Virginia Commonwealth, athletic performance, soccer; Julie Culley, Rutgers, marketing/political science, cross country; Imani Dorsey, Portland, interdisciplinary studies/Spanish, soccer; Jocelyn Dumaresq, Seton Hall, secondary education/English, soccer; Kele Eveland, Georgia Tech, management, volleyball.

Aimee Gibbs, Christopher Newport, biology, cross country; Christina Hershey, Louisville, communications, field hockey; Jenne Heu-Weller, Pacific Lutheran, biology, volleyball; Lindsay Hinson, Wingate, biology, volleyball; Julie Hufnagel, Denison, biology, cross country; Angela Jacquez, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, literature/Spanish, cross country; Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Pennsylvania, communications, volleyball; Amanda Laytham, Ithaca, exercise science, cross country; Joanna Lohman, Penn State, business management, soccer; Sara McGee, Stanford, human biology, volleyball.

Megan Mendoza, UC San Diego, anthropology, soccer; Allison Mitchell, Clemson, wildlife biology, soccer; Gina Morgan, Nebraska Wesleyan, biology, cross country; Rebekah Potts, Furman, chemistry, cross country; Kristin Price, North Carolina State, food science, cross country; Vanessa Pruzinsky, Notre Dame, chemical engineering, soccer; Meghan Ramsey, Lafayette, neuroscience, soccer; Erin Treadway, Dayton, pre-physical therapy, volleyball; Kathryn Walker, North Carolina, chemistry, soccer.

Men's sports recipients

Travis J. Barclay, Ball State, physics, football; John K. Bitok, Syracuse, biochemistry, cross country; Nicholas J. Browne, TCU, finance/real estate, football; Adam K. Brunfeldt, Emory, chemistry, cross country; Scott P. Connot, South Dakota State, animal science, football; Jeremy W. Cook, Northwestern, chemistry, soccer; Adom Crew, Brown, business economics, soccer; Judd Davies, Nebraska, communication studies, football; Michael T. Derse, Stanford, mechanical engineering, water polo; Jarrod A. Edelen, South Dakota, mathematics/economics/computer science, football.

Ian Gray, Nebraska, biological sciences, cross country; Philip A. Hagedorn, Emory, English, cross country; Benjamin R. Hartsock, Ohio State, biology, football; Thomas K. Haxton, Chicago, mathematics/physics, cross country; William R. Hesmer, Wake Forest, history, soccer; Daniel E. Houseman, Franklin & Marshall, biochemistry/molecular biology, football; Harold E. Ivery, Wittenberg, management, football; Curtis M. Johnson, Wisconsin-Stevens Point, biology, cross country; Brian E. Koontz, Wheaton (Illinois), business/economics, soccer; Jeffrey W. Krigbaum, Ohio Wesleyan, physical education/psychology, soccer.

Matthew G. Lee-Ashley, Pomona-Pitzer, history, soccer; Daniel L. Meehan, Salisbury, finance, soccer; John T. Paul, Emporia State, accounting, football; Cable S. Rohloff Northern Colorado, marketing, football; Jeremy E. Schultz, Carleton, economics, soccer; Adam S. Tenforde, Stanford, biology, cross country; Landon W. Trusty, Central Arkansas, finance, football; Peter Veldman, Pennsylvania, biology, football; Tameem Yehyawi, Truman, biology, football.