University of North Carolina Athletics
Kerscher Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
July 18, 2003 | Women's Rowing
July 18, 2003
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Kara Kerscher, a senior captain on the 2002-03 North Carolina rowing team, has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for spring sports. She is one of 58 student-athletes from Divisions I, II and III honored with the scholarships, worth $6,900 each.
Kerscher graduated in May with a double major in Spanish and exercise and sport science. A four-year member of the rowing team, she stroked the varsity eight and earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors as a senior. At UNC, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and earned ACC Honor Roll and Dean's List honors.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she will spend the next year teaching in the Marshall Islands before enrolling in medical school in the fall of 2004.
Kerscher is the fourth Tar Heel student-athlete to win an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship during the 2002-03 academic year. Soccer player Matt Crawford and volleyball player Malaika Underwood were recipients for fall sports and swimmer Stephen Mohr was a recipient for winter sports. In addition, Carolina gymnast Natalie Halbach received the NCAA's Walter J. Byers Postgraduate Scholarship.
The NCAA awards 174 of its Postgraduate Scholarships annually, 58 each to fall, winter and spring sports participants. To qualify, a student-athlete must have an overall grade point average of at least 3.2 and must have performed with distinction as a member of a varsity team. The spring sports pool includes 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.
Wake Forest golfer Brent Wanner joined Kerscher as the only spring sports NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients in the ACC.
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