WASHINGTON — The Atlantic 10 Conference announced the 15 A-10 Postgraduate Scholarship honorees for 2024. The prestigious honor is given to a graduating student-athlete from each of the league’s 15 members.
The 2024 class is comprised of 11 female and four male student-athletes, representing eight different sports with an average GPA of 3.74. The selection process involves the league’s athletic directors, senior woman administrators and faculty athletic representatives.
Over the last decade, the A-10’s Postgraduate Scholarship program has awarded $570,000 to 114 former student-athletes. Each of this year’s 15 honorees receives $5,000 to contribute towards full-time enrollment in a postgraduate or professional program. First instituted to provide continuing education opportunities for graduating student-athletes, the program awards $75,000 in scholarship funding to former A-10 student-athletes. This marks the eighth year the Atlantic 10 has provided the scholarships to individuals from each Atlantic 10 campus.
2024 Postgraduate Scholarship Honorees
| School |
Name |
Sport |
Major |
| Davidson |
Jerry Wang |
Men's Tennis |
Biology |
| Duquesne |
Ayanna Townsend |
Women's Basketball |
Exercise Science/Applied Science |
| Fordham |
Maja Gunz |
Rowing |
Chemistry |
| George Mason |
Marlaina Bozek |
Softball |
Kinesiology |
| George Washington |
Tim Neumann |
Men's Soccer |
Applied Mathematics & Data Science |
| La Salle |
Catherine McFadden |
Field Hockey |
Public Health |
| Loyola Chicago |
Teagan Sopczak |
Softball |
Finance |
| Massachusetts |
Katie Gatza |
Rowing |
Psychology |
| Rhode Island |
Alexis Moore |
Rowing |
Animal Science |
| Richmond |
Daniel Kliebhan |
Men's Tennis |
Physics |
| St. Bonaventure |
Madelyn Dziezgowski |
Women's Basketball |
Biochemistry |
| Saint Joseph's |
Gavin Campbell |
Men's Track & Field |
Actuarial Science & Quantitative Economics |
| Saint Louis |
Carly McKeon |
Women's Swimming & Diving |
Accounting |
| VCU |
Samantha Robinson |
Women's Basketball |
Criminal Justice |
Over the last 10 years, the average GPA of the honorees for the Postgraduate Scholarship Program has been 3.70 or higher. The program, which began honoring two student-athletes in 1991, has been so successful and well-received by both the recipients and the A-10 member institutions that it has expanded several times. The most recent expansion, which was adopted in January of 2015 and implemented that spring, now includes one representative from each A-10 school.
To be considered for the Postgraduate Scholarship, student-athletes must have performed with distinction both in the classroom and in their respective sports throughout their career, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
The Postgraduate Scholarship Program is part of the conference’s broad-based commitment to student-athlete opportunities and academics. The conference consistently ranks at the top amongst all Division I Conferences in both Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA.