Jul 8, 2010 11:47:57 AM

The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships to student athletes in spring sports. Scholarships of $7,500 have been given to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's outdoor track and field, baseball, men's volleyball, softball, women's rowing, and women's water polo.

Following are the recipients in women's spring sports:

• Lisa Anderberg, outdoor track and field, Seattle Pacific
• Nicole Arola, outdoor track and field, St. Thomas (Minnesota)
• Amy Backel, outdoor track and field, Oklahoma
• Joan Cloutier, golf, St. John's (New York)
• Kristine Dahlheimer, outdoor track and field, North Dakota
• Evelien Dekkers, outdoor track and field, Florida
• Bridget Franek, outdoor track and field, Penn State
• Rebecca Grafenauer, outdoor track and field, Carroll (Wisconsin)
• Kathryn Grant, outdoor track and field, Harding
• Etta Grover-Silva, outdoor track and field, Smith
• Lindsey Haines, golf, Illinois Wesleyan
• Lillian Hammond, softball, Tennessee
• Tiffany Huff, softball, Tennessee
• Jenny Kordick, outdoor track and field, Wartburg
• Kimberly Lambert, softball, Luther
• Megan Mathias, tennis, Bridgewater (Virginia)
• Sandra Mazan, outdoor track and field, Brigham Young
• Caitlin McGrane, outdoor track and field, Puget Sound
• Adrienne Meier, softball, East Texas Baptist
• Michelle Nance, rowing, Clemson
• Brieanne Oehlke, softball, St. Norbert
• Tara Oltman, softball, Creighton
• Katelyn Rodrigue, outdoor track and field, LSU
• Megan Soultz, softball, DePauw
• Brittany Thune, outdoor track and field, Belmont
• Stacie Townsend, softball, UTEP
• Rachel Wilkes, tennis, Converse
• Phoebe Wright, outdoor track and field, Tennessee
• Alison Wright, softball, St. Thomas (Minnesota)

Following are the recipients in men's spring sports:

• Aaron Braun, outdoor track and field, Adams State
• Michael Colebrook, baseball, Assumption
• Brian Copley, outdoor track and field, Nebraska Wesleyan
• Frank Ehrensberger, outdoor track and field, California (Pennsylvania)
• Christopher Fishburn, baseball, Thomas More
• Alexander Greenhouse, outdoor track and field, Emory
• Donovan Huffer, baseball, Concord
• Patrick Jenkins, outdoor track and field, Western Kentucky
• Nicholas Kreines, tennis, Texas-Tyler
• Timothy Kurpis, lacrosse, Gettysburg
• Evan McDole, baseball, Northern Kentucky
• William Moss, tennis, Hampden-Sydney
• Matej Muza, outdoor track and field, Virginia Tech
• Saketh Myneni, tennis, Alabama
• Andrew Nally, volleyball, Springfield
• Oleksandr Nedovyesov, tennis, Oklahoma State
• Ryan Nokelby, baseball, Texas Lutheran
• Max Petersen, outdoor track and field, Augustana (Illinois)
• Eric Petersen, outdoor track and field, Nebraska
• Christopher Platano, outdoor track and field, Willamette
• Cory Roberts, outdoor track and field, Southwestern Louisiana
• John Schantzen, outdoor track and field, St. Olaf
• Kawika Shoji, volleyball, Stanford
• David Simson, tennis, Denver
• Jason Stuckey, tennis, Johnson C. Smith
• David Towarnicky, baseball, Appalachian State
• William Uechi, baseball, Abilene Christian
• Garrett Werner, volleyball, Stanford
• Kenneth Wheeler, outdoor track and field, McMurry

In addition to the spring-sport honorees, 116 postgraduate scholarships are given to student-athletes participating in fall and winter sports in which the NCAA conducts championships or participates in as an emerging sport. The NCAA awards 174 postgraduate scholarships annually to student-athletes who intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.

To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a 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-athletes chosen have showed dedication and effort while performing both on and off the field at a high level that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.  

Nomination information is sent to faculty athletics representatives for fall sports in September, for winter sports in January, and for spring sports in March. Selections are made three times each academic year. The nomination must be submitted by the faculty athletics representative during the appropriate seasonal category for the sport using the online scholarship submission system. Candidates are initially reviewed by seven regional selection committees, and the final award recipients are selected by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.

For more information on the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, visit www.ncaa.org and click on Academics and Athletics, then Education.