NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Scholarship
The NCAA awards 13 scholarships valued at $6000 to ethnic minorities and 13 scholarships to women college graduates who will be entering their initial year of postgraduate studies. The scholarships are not renewable.
The scholarships are one-time, nonrenewable $7,500 grants. Candidates must have a minimum GPA of 3.2. Athletic achievements will be weighed along with academic performance, university involvement and volunteer community service. There are 29 scholarships available for men and 29 for women (nationwide) during each sports season, fall, winter, and spring. Student-Athletes must be nominated in the academic year in which they complete their final season of completion. Nominees must have "performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team."
If you wish to be considered as a possible nominee, please contact:
Amy Crosbie
Academic Advisor/ Life Skills Coordinator
Utah State University - Student Athlete Services
435-797-3294
amy.crosbie@usu.edu
Fall Sports
Men's: Cross Country, Football
Women's: Cross Country, Soccer, Volleyball
Winter Sports
Men's: Basketball, Indoor Track & Field
Women's: Basketball, Gymnastics, Indoor Track & Field
Spring Sports
Men's: Golf, Tennis, Outdoor Track & Field
Women's: Softball, Tennis, Outdoor Track & Field
The Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Program is separate and distinct from the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program, which provides numerous annual awards with smaller stipends. The stipend for each Byers Scholarship is $21,500 for an academic year. The scholarship amount will be reviewed every two years so that the purchasing power of the award will remain reasonably close to the award as initially conceived in 1988. If the graduate school where the Byers Scholar is enrolled provides evidence of satisfactory performance and progress, the grant may be renewed for a second year. Therefore, in any single year, $86,000 worth of scholarships are awarded ($43,000 to the current year's recipients and $43,000 to the previous year's awardees for their second year of graduate school).
The Freedom Forum NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship Program for JUNIORS
The Freedom Forum, through a grant to the NCAA, supports eight $3,000 scholarships to college juniors who have career goals in sports journalism and major in journalism or have experience in campus sports journalism.
The program assists deserving full-time students in their final year of study and is designed to foster freedoms of speech and press while promoting quality sports journalism education at the collegiate level
John McLendon Memorial Minority Postgraduate Scholarship
This scholarship program provides five (5) $10,000 postgraduate scholarships, to minority senior level students around the country who are planning to pursue a graduate degree in athletics administration. Eligible recipients must be full time status as a senior at the time of the nomination, have a minimum GPA of 3.0, and intend to pursue a graduate degree in athletics administration or an MBA in a sports specialization program. Nomination Forms are to be postmarked no later than June 17, 2006. See Amy Crosbie for details, 797-3294
The NCAA established this program to assist student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility for institutional financial aid (in five years). Applicants must have completed eligibility for athletics-related aid at a Division I member institution before applying and must be within 30 semester hours of their degree requirements.
Full-time students receive grants equal to a full athletics grant at the institution; part-time students receive tuition and an allowance for books.
The program is administered by the NCAA Degree Completion Scholarship consultants.
