University of North Carolina Athletics
Jordan Walker Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
March 25, 2004 | Women's Soccer
March 25, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - Jordan Walker, one of the senior tri-captains of the University of North Carolina's undefeated and untied NCAA champion 2003 women's soccer team, has been awarded a postgraduate scholarship worth $7,500 from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The NCAA awarded 59 postgraduate scholarships in total to 29 male and 29 female student-athletes who competed in fall sports in 2003. Those sports include women's badminton, men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, football, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and men's water polo.
Walker returned from a near career-ending knee injury at the beginning of the 2002 season to captain the 2003 squad to a 27-0-0 record, the best mark in the history of collegiate women's soccer. She started 16 matches and played in 26 in all at the attacking center midfield position for Coach Anson Dorrance's squad. During the 2003 season she finished with one goal and three assists for five points with the goal the game-winning tally in a 1-0 victory at Navy.
A native of Richardson, Texas, Walker graduated as the valedictorian from Ursuline Academy in 1999 before enrolling at North Carolina the following fall. She red-shirted in 1999 before playing the following fall seasons although she was limited to only four games in 2002 because of a knee injury. She finished her career having played in 88 games, scoring eight goals with 20 assists and 36 points. Five of her eight collegiate goals were game-winning goals, including three to win NCAA Tournament matches.
Winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference Top Six For Service Award in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Walker has been a regular selection to the Dean's List at Carolina as well as being named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll each of the last four years. A chemistry major, she studies in the Honors Program at the University while also being active in the ACC Outreach program where she has chaired the fundraising program for the UNC Dance Marathon.
In addition to the fall sport honorees, the NCAA also awards 116 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes participating in winter and springsports in which the NCAA conducts championships or participates in as an emerging sport, for a total of 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.
To qualifty for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a scale of 4.000) or its equivalent and must have performed with distinction as a member of a 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.
