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Winter postgraduate scholarship winners announced
The NCAA’s 2013 winter sports postgraduate scholarship winners have been announced, with 29 male and 29 female winter sports student-athletes each receiving $7,500. Similar awards are given each season to fall and spring student-athletes, totaling 174 individual winners.
To qualify, student-athletes must excel academically and athletically, be in their final year of eligibility and plan to pursue graduate study. Student-athletes must also maintain at least a 3.2 grade-point average and be nominated by their institution’s faculty athletics representative.
Created in 1964, the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships promote and encourage education by rewarding the Association’s most accomplished student-athletes.
| Women |
| Sarah Beard, rifle, TCU |
| Anna Connolly, swimming, Kenyon |
| Noel Couch, gymnastics, Georgia |
| Kaitlyn Dellinger, basketball, Widener |
| Kelsey Floyd, swimming, Tennessee |
| Caitlin Forbes, skiing, Saint Anselm |
| Laura Gorinski, swimming, Navy |
| Teal Gove, ice hockey, Plattsburgh |
| Lauren Gustafson, swimming, Purdue |
| Kimberly Holden, swimming, Notre Dame |
| Abigail Johnston, diving, Duke |
| Jacqui Kalin, basketball, Northern Iowa |
| Marissa Kastanek, basketball, North Carolina State |
| Jocelyne Lamoureux, ice hockey, North Dakota |
| Stephanie McGregor, gymnastics, Oregon State |
| Mia Michalak, swimming, Emory |
| Sara Neil, swimming, Sewanee (University of the South) |
| Jenna Niedermayer, indoor track, Elizabethtown |
| Ashley Priess, gymnastics, Alabama |
| Sarah Scherer, rifle, TCU |
| Rebecca Shaak, swimming, Lake Forest |
| Kayleigh Shangel, swimming, The College of New Jersey |
| Kayla Shull, swimming, Clarion |
| Ashley Sledge, gymnastics, Alabama |
| Taylor Tacha, indoor track, Nebraska Wesleyan |
| Allyson Voss, indoor track, Gustavus Adolphus |
| Ann Wolber, swimming, Emory |
| Minami Yamamura, gymnastics, UC Davis |
| Katherine Zurales, gymnastics, Michigan |
| Men |
| Gabriel Alvarado, gymnastics, Stanford |
| Dwight Baker, swimming, Drury |
| Kevin Bandy, swimming, Louisville |
| Justin Beegle, swimming, Emory |
| James Alexander Douglas, swimming, Emory |
| Stuart Ferguson, swimming, Auburn |
| Christopher Galvin, indoor track, Navy |
| Alexander Greven, basketball, Emory |
| Tyler Harp, swimming, Redlands |
| Alfonso Hernandez, wrestling, Wyoming |
| Henri Janghanel, rifle, Kentucky |
| John Kuhlman, basketball, Davidson |
| James Lendrum, swimming, Southern California |
| Anthony Lin, fencing, Duke |
| Phillip Link, swimming, Sewanee (University of the South) |
| Cameron Martin, swimming, Florida |
| Nathan McCormick, wrestling, Missouri |
| Peter O’Brien, swimming, Emory |
| Kyle Owens, swimming, Auburn |
| James Pezzino, gymnastics, Springfield |
| Brian Pierre, indoor track, Boise State |
| Curtis Ramsey, swimming, Kenyon |
| Dominic Rieniets, swimming, Linfield |
| Scott Rosenthal, gymnastics, Penn State |
| John Rutford, indoor track, Nebraska Wesleyan |
| Maxwell Stearns, fencing, Ohio State |
| Ian Stewart-Bates, swimming, Kenyon |
| Christian Treat, swimming, Bucknell |
| Quentin Wright, wrestling, Penn State |
Additional information
In addition to the Postgraduate Scholarships, the NCAA offers the Walter Byers Scholarship, a renewable $24,000 postgraduate scholarship, and the Jim McKay Scholarship, a $10,000 award given annually to one male and one female student-athlete.
The NCAA also funds 13 $6,000 scholarships for women and 13 $6,000 scholarships for ethnic minorities. The Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Scholarships are given to those student-athletes who are enrolling in curriculum that will lead to a career in sports administration. Six of the scholarships are available to Division III students only.
More than 8 out of 10 NCAA student-athletes earn bachelor’s degrees and more than a quarter earn postgraduate degrees. Almost 10,000 former student-athletes have returned to school in the past eight years and earned undergraduate degrees after exhausting their intercollegiate athletics eligibility.
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