Bennett Honored with NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
7/16/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
July 16, 2003
WACO, Texas - Baylor senior Ross Bennett, a four-year baseball letterwinners, was one of 58 spring-sport student-athletes honored by the NCAA with a $6,900 postgraduate scholarship earlier this month. Bennett was one of just 29 male student-athletes and one of only five baseball players selected.
Bennett earned first-team Academic All-America honors in 2003 after hitting .354 (third-best on the team) with four home runs and 46 RBI. A senior biochemistry/pre-dental major from Cape Girardeau, Mo., Bennett is a three-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection (2000, 2002, 2003). Bennett earned four letters in baseball and twice was named to the coaches' All-Big 12 team (2002, 2003). He plans to pursue postgraduate studies in dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In June, Bennett received a postgraduate scholarship from the Big 12 Conference.
The NCAA 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.
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.
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.
