Recipients of the NCAA postgraduate
scholarships for student-athletes
who competed in spring sports have
been selected. Each of the 29
male and 29 female student-athletes
will receive a scholarship of
$7,500. The NCAA also awards 114
postgraduate scholarships to
student-athletes who compete in fall
and winter sports for a total of 170
annually.
One
qualification for a student-athlete
to receive a postgraduate
scholarship is he/she must have the
equivalent of an overall grade point
average of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale to be
considered for nomination.
Other
requirements include: the
student-athlete performing with
distinction on varsity team in the
sport, he/she must intend to
continue to pursue educational
opportunities beyond the
baccalaureate degree as a full-time
or part-time graduate student and
he/she must have behaved on and off
the field in a manner that brought
credit to the student-athlete, the
institution and intercollegiate
athletics.
Demorest,
GA - Former Piedmont College men's tennis player
Sebastian Stanescu (SR/Bucharest, Romania) has been
honored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
as a recipient of a 2005 post-graduate scholarship grant.
The post-graduate grant is the first-ever for a PC
student-athlete.