Four Student-Athletes Earn Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarships
Walnut Creek, Calif. – Wrestling’s (Federal Way, Wash.), women’s cross country and track’s Lauren Denfeld (Bend, Ore.), gymnastics’ Yuki Lamb (Knoxville, Tenn.) and men’s rowing’s Justin Wagner (Portland, Ore.) have been named as Oregon State’s student-athletes that are recipients of $3,000 Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarships for 2007-08, announced Thursday by Commissioner Tom Hansen.
Lamb was named an Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America, while Denfeld garnered Academic All-District honors. All four student-athletes earned Pac-10 All-Academic accolades for their respective sports.
The 40 Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship awardees become candidates for the Oroweat Healthy Minds Scholarship. The Healthy Minds scholarship provides $10,000 each to one male and one female student-athlete for postgraduate study. The winners are selected by a Pac-10 committee which includes institutional administrators and a student-athlete member of the Pac-10 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. The scholarship winners will be announced in August. Katy Trotter of Stanford and Kal Clark of Arizona State were the inaugural winners of the Oroweat Healthy Minds Scholarships in 2007
To be selected for a Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship, a student-athlete must:
Have an overall undergraduate minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 (based on a 4.00 scale) or its equivalent.
Be in his/her final season of intercollegiate athletics eligibility in all sports OR be in his/her final year of undergraduate studies, having exhausted athletics eligibility in all sports. The student-athlete will be evaluated on the basis of all academic work completed at time of selection.
Have performed with distinction as a member of a varsity team. The degree of the student-athletes athletic achievement will be weighed at least equally with the degree of academic performance.
Intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time student in a graduate or professional program at an accredited institution, or in a postgraduate program for which an undergraduate degree is required for admission.
Have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
Since the program began in 1999, the Pac-10 has awarded over $1 million for postgraduate study.
