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NCAA Awards Air Force's Kenneth Grosselin with Postgraduate Scholarship
Feb. 27, 2008 INDIANAPOLIS - Air Force senior cross country runner Kenneth Grosselin has been awarded a postgraduate scholarship, the NCAA announced yesterday. Grosselin becomes just the 18th student-athlete in Mountain West Conference history to receive the prestigious award. In the 2006-07 academic year, three MWC student-athletes earned NCAA postgraduate scholarships. The Ramstein AB, Germany, product earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honors, is a three-time academic all-conference selection for track, earned academic all-conference honors in cross country as a junior and is an MWC Scholar-Athlete. The NCAA awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in fall 2007 sports, which included men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and men's water polo. 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-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. The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. Athletics and academic achievements, as well as campus involvement, community service, volunteer activities and demonstrated leadership, are evaluated. An equitable approach is employed in reviewing each applicant's nomination form to provide opportunity to all student-athlete nominees to receive the postgraduate award, regardless of sport, division, gender or race. In maintaining the highest broad-based standards in the selection process, the program aims to reward those individuals whose dedication and effort are reflective of those characteristics necessary to succeed and thrive through postgraduate study in an accredited graduate degree program.
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