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Star runner Megan Daymont wins prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship

By Le Ann Finger
July 8, 2003

St. Olaf graduate, Megan Daymont, ('03, Northfield, Minn.) has been selected by the NCAA as a winner of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $6,900 each to 29 men and 29 women who participated in spring sports, which included baseball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, rowing, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's volleyball, outdoor track and field and women's water polo. Daymont is one of 58 student-athletes awarded this scholarship from across all three divisions, and the second St. Olaf student-athlete to earn this prestigious award in the past two months.

Daymont is a four year letterwinner on the women's cross country team and women's track and field teams. During her college career, Daymont earned six All-American titles and qualified for and competed in nationals twelve times. Daymont was named Central Region Womenęs Track and Field Athlete of the Year, holds eighteen individual MIAC titles, one individual MIAC relay title, as well as being named team MVP for four years in track and two years in cross country. Daymont, an Economics and Mathematics major, also earned the Verizon (R) Academic All-America award twice.

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.

In addition to the spring sport honorees, the NCAA also awards 116 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes participating in fall and winter sports in which the NCAA conducts championships, for a total of 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.

Contact Le Ann Finger at 507-786-3834 or finger@stolaf.edu.